On an American dating app, height is always listed in feet and inches: "6 ft 2 in" sounds impressive, but how tall is that really? And if you need to enter your 180 cm on an English-language form, you need the conversion in the other direction. The height converter is designed specifically for this task and always displays the result in both formats – as a decimal value and as a combined feet-plus-inches figure.
Step by Step: How to Use the Height Converter
- Choose your input mode: Decide whether you're converting from centimeters to feet/inches or the other way around.
- Enter your value: For a cm input, type e.g. 178 for 178 cm. For feet/inches input, enter feet and inches separately, e.g. 5 and 10.
- Read the result: 178 cm is displayed as 5 feet 10.1 inches – which corresponds to the standard notation 5 ft 10 in.
- Round to whole inches: Since height in feet and inches is normally given without decimal places, round to the nearest whole inch: 5 ft 10 in is the standard way to write 178 cm.
- Copy the result: Use the copy function to paste the value directly into a form.
Practical Examples
Example 1 – Tinder profile for the US: You are 173 cm tall. The conversion gives: 173 cm ÷ 30.48 = 5.676 ft → 5 feet + 0.676 × 12 = 8.1 inches → result: 5 ft 8 in. That's a perfectly normal average height for women in the United States.
Example 2 – Placing an NBA player: A basketball star is listed at 7 ft 1 in. 7 × 30.48 + 1 × 2.54 = 213.36 + 2.54 = 215.9 cm. That's a genuine giant – the NBA average height is around 200 cm.
Example 3 – Medical form: Swiss forms sometimes use meters with a decimal place: 1.82 m. Converted: 1.82 m = 182 cm = 5 feet 11.7 inches ≈ 5 ft 12 in, or rounded up to 6 ft 0 in.
Convert Height Between cm, Meters, Feet and Inches
Our height converter is especially useful for: travel to the US or UK, online shopping, sports competitions, dating apps, medical documentation.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- How do you write height correctly in English?
- The standard notation uses a prime for feet and a double prime for inches, e.g. 5 ft 10 in or 5'10". Forms often provide two separate fields (Feet / Inches). In everyday British English, it's also common to say just the feet figure, e.g. "nearly six foot".
- What is the average height in Germany?
- According to current statistics, men in Germany are on average 179–180 cm tall (5 ft 10.8 in) and women 165–166 cm (5 ft 5 in). By international standards, Germans rank among the taller populations in the world.
- Is there a difference between the inch in different countries?
- No – since 1959 the inch has been internationally standardized at exactly 2.54 cm. This applies to the US, UK, Canada and all other countries that use the imperial system. Before 1959 there were minimal differences between the US inch and the UK inch.
