Meter to Other Length Units Converter
📏 Convert Meter to Other Length Units: The Ultimate Conversion Guide
Whether you’re a student, engineer, researcher, or just curious, understanding how to convert meters to other length units is more than a math skill — it’s a global necessity. The meter is the gold standard of length in the metric system, but depending on your context, you might need to switch to inches, miles, light-years, or even Planck lengths.
In this guide, we’ll walk you through how to convert meters to over 60 other length units — from everyday measurements to astronomical and quantum scales.
📐 Metric System Conversions
🔹 Meter to Kilometer (km)
1 meter = 0.001 kilometers
Example: 5,000 meters = 5 km
✅ Multiply meters by 0.001
🔹 Meter to Decimeter (dm)
1 meter = 10 decimeters
🔹 Meter to Centimeter (cm)
1 meter = 100 centimeters
🔹 Meter to Millimeter (mm)
1 meter = 1,000 millimeters
🔹 Meter to Micrometer (μm)
1 meter = 1,000,000 micrometers
🔹 Meter to Nanometer (nm)
1 meter = 1,000,000,000 nanometers
📏 Imperial & US Customary Conversions
🔹 Meters to Yards
1 meter ≈ 1.09361 yards
🔹 Meters to Feet
1 meter ≈ 3.28084 feet
🔹 Meters to Inches
1 meter ≈ 39.3701 inches
🔹 Meters to Miles (Statute)
1 meter ≈ 0.000621371 miles
🔹 Meters to Furlongs
1 meter ≈ 0.00497096 furlongs
🔹 Meters to Chains
1 meter ≈ 0.0497097 chains
🔹 Meters to Rods (Perches/Poles)
1 meter ≈ 0.198839 rods
🔹 Meters to Fathoms
1 meter ≈ 0.546807 fathoms
🔹 Meters to Ells
1 meter ≈ 1.0936 English ells
🔹 Meters to Hands
1 meter ≈ 9.84252 hands
🔹 Meters to Spans
1 meter ≈ 4.374 spans
🔹 Meters to Fingers/Nails/Barleycorns
1 meter ≈ 4.48 cloth fingers, ≈ 17.72 nails, ≈ 117.6 barleycorns
🔹 Meters to Points/Picas/Twips
1 meter ≈ 2834.65 points, ≈ 236.22 picas, ≈ 17007 twips
🌌 Astronomical Conversions
🔹 Meter to Light-Year
1 meter ≈ 1.057 × 10⁻¹⁶ light-years
🔹 Meter to Astronomical Unit (AU)
1 meter ≈ 6.6846 × 10⁻¹² AU
🔹 Meter to Parsec
1 meter ≈ 3.2408 × 10⁻¹⁷ parsecs
🔹 Meter to Kiloparsec (kpc)
1 meter ≈ 3.2408 × 10⁻²⁰ kpc
🔹 Meter to Megaparsec (Mpc)
1 meter ≈ 3.2408 × 10⁻²³ Mpc
⚓ Nautical & Survey Units
🔹 Meter to Nautical Mile (International)
1 meter ≈ 0.000539957 nautical miles
🔹 Meter to League (Statute & Nautical)
1 meter ≈ 0.0002071 statute leagues, ≈ 0.00017998 nautical leagues
🔹 Meter to Kiloyard
1 meter ≈ 0.0010936 kiloyards
🔬 Scientific & Micro Units
🔹 Meter to Micron
1 meter = 1,000,000 microns
🔹 Meter to Angstrom (Å)
1 meter = 10,000,000,000 Å
🔹 Meter to Picometer (pm)
1 meter = 1 × 10¹² pm
🔹 Meter to Femtometer
1 meter = 1 × 10¹⁵ femtometers
🔹 Meter to Attometer
1 meter = 1 × 10¹⁸ attometers
🔹 Meter to Planck Length
1 meter ≈ 6.1877 × 10³⁴ Planck lengths
🔹 Meter to Electron Radius (classical)
1 meter ≈ 3.548 × 10¹⁵ classical electron radii
🔹 Meter to Bohr Radius
1 meter ≈ 1.8897 × 10¹⁰ bohr radii
🧱 Historical/Obscure Units
🔹 Meter to Reed (UK)
1 meter ≈ 0.55 reeds
🔹 Meter to Long Cubit / Handbreadth / Fingerbreadth
1 meter ≈ 2.187 long cubits, ≈ 6 handbreadths, ≈ 9 fingerbreadths
🔹 Meter to Caliber
1 meter = 39.37 calibers (inches)
🔹 Meter to Ken (Japanese)
1 meter ≈ 0.5 ken
🔹 Meter to Roman Actus
1 meter ≈ 0.014 actus
🔹 Meter to Russian Archin
1 meter ≈ 1.406 archins
🔹 Meter to Vara (Castellana, Tarea, Conuquera)
1 meter ≈ 1.197 varas (Castellana)
🌍 Earth-Scale Measurements
🔹 Meter to Earth’s Equatorial Radius
1 meter ≈ 1.5708 × 10⁻⁷ Earth equatorial radii
🔹 Meter to Earth’s Distance from Sun
1 meter ≈ 6.6846 × 10⁻¹² AU
🔹 Meter to Sun’s Radius
1 meter ≈ 1.437 × 10⁻⁶ solar radii
