How do I convert feet to miles?
There are 5,280 feet in a statute mile, so divide by that. It doesn't break down into anything you'd want to do in your head – 1,000 ft comes to 0.189 miles.
Worth remembering: 2,640 ft is exactly half a mile and 1,320 ft a quarter. Mount Everest, at 29,032 ft, is about 5.5 miles high, a little below where airliners cruise.
What is a foot?
The foot is an imperial and US unit of length equal to 12 inches, or exactly 30.48 centimeters. It is a third of a yard and 1/5,280 of a mile.
The foot began as the length of a human foot, and so differed from place to place and from person to person. The modern international foot was fixed at exactly 0.3048 meters by agreement in 1959.
People's height is given in feet and inches in the US and UK, and aircraft altitude is given in feet nearly everywhere, metric countries included.
What is a mile?
A mile is an imperial and US unit of length, exactly 1,609.344 meters. The word comes from the Latin mille passus, 'a thousand paces', where a pace was two steps of a marching legionary.
A mile is equivalent to 1760yds or 5280ft.
Road distances in the US and UK are signed in miles, while nearly every other country uses kilometers. Aviation and shipping use the nautical mile instead, which is a different length (1,852 meters).