Length Units Converter - miles, kilometers, yards, centimeters, ..., nautical and astronomical units
Length Units Converter is online conversion calculator that allows you to convert units of length beetween various measurement systems (metric/imperial/US). You can easily convert inch to mm; kilometers and meters to inches, yards, miles; feet to centimeters; kilometers to miles and miles to kilometers. You can easily calculate 'how many meters make a mile', 'how many yards make a kilometer', 'how many inches make one meter', 'how long is a meter'. Additionaly, it supports Nautical Units Conversion and Astronomical Units Conversion
(number of significant decimal digits)
Metric Units
Imperial and US Units
Nautical Units
Astronomical Units
Popular Conversions (Click to convert)
Kilometer vs. Mile Example
If you want to know how many kilometers make one mile, simply type
'1' into the edit box labeled 'mile' and the edit box labeled 'kilometer'
will show you the result. On the other hand, if you type '1' in 'kilometer' box,
'mile' edit box will show you: 'how many miles make one kilometer' (edit box 'yard' shows:
'how many yards make one kilometer', 'inch' edit box shows 'how many inches make one kilometer', etc)
Fundamental unit of length in the International System Of Units (SI) is: meter (metre) [m].
| Unit | in meters |
|---|---|
| Metric Unit System | |
| millimeter [mm] | 0.001 |
| centmeter [cm] | 0.01 |
| decimeter [dm] | 0.1 |
| meter [m] | 1 |
| kilometer [km] | 1000 |
| Imperial and US Unit System | |
| inch [in] | 0.0254 |
| foot [ft] | 0.3048 |
| yard [yd] | 0.9144 |
| mile [mi] | 1609.344 |
| league | 4827.93696 |
| Nautical Units | |
| cable | 185.2 |
| nautical mile [NM] | 1852 |
| nautical league | 5556 |
| Astronomical Units | |
| astronomical unit [au] | 149.597870691e+9 |
| light year [ly] | 9.4605e+15 |
| parsec [pc] | 3.086e+16 |
