Feet to kilometers converter
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Convert feet to kilometers instantly: 1 foot is 0.000305 km. Altitude, distance and maps, with the exact math and one-click copying.
5,280 feet in a mile, and a kilometer wedged in there, uninvited.
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Math, not advice — results are indicative. Read the disclaimer.
pro tips
Rough math: divide by 3,281. 5,000 feet is about 1.5 km.
3,281 feet is 1 km — the anchor number for every altitude conversion.
A 10,000-foot climb is roughly 3 km of uphill, which is the same thing told with fewer decimals.
what it does
One foot is 0.0003048 kilometers. That's a small number doing an important job: turning altitudes and distances quoted in feet into kilometers that a metric map can read.
It shows up when a trail sign measures the climb in feet and the guidebook counts the route in kilometers, when a plane reports its altitude in feet and the passengers think in kilometers, and in any elevation profile that insists both units are the same story.
For everyday life the numbers get tiny fast: 1,000 feet is 0.305 km, 5,000 feet is 1.524 km, and a 10,000-foot climb is about 3 km of pure character. The shortcut is to memorize 3,281 feet to the kilometer and work backward from there.
Type any foot value and the widget answers in kilometers instantly, with the math in the hint. Click to copy, and hit swap when a metric reading has to be translated back into feet.
quick answers
How many feet in a kilometer?
3,280.84. Flip the factor and a foot becomes 0.000305 km.
Is 1,000 feet about a third of a kilometer?
Yes — 0.305 km. A handy anchor for reading trail signs on the fly.
Why convert feet to kilometers at all?
Because aviation and hiking quote feet while maps and apps think in kilometers. Someone has to translate.