How do I convert kilometers into feet?
A kilometer is 3,280.84 feet, so multiply kilometers by 3,280.84. For a rough figure use 3,300, which runs about 0.6% high.
5 kilometers is 16,404.2 feet (5 x 3,280.84).
Type the kilometers into the Kilometers to Feet calculator and it shows the step by step working underneath the result.
What is a kilometer?
A kilometer is 1,000 meters, or about 0.621 miles. 'Kilo' is the Greek-derived prefix for a thousand. It is the unit for road distances nearly everywhere except the US and UK, which still use miles.
A kilometer is about 3,281 feet or 39,370 inches. At a walking pace of 5km/h it takes about 12 minutes to cover.
Going from kilometers to meters just means moving the decimal point three places. A mile has to be broken into 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet first, and neither of those is a round number of anything.
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.