Inches to Feet Converter

By Inch To Cm Converter Editorial Team·August 31, 2026·2 min read

There are 12 inches in a foot, so to convert inches to feet you divide by 12. The catch is that the answer is usually more useful as feet and inches than as a decimal – 68 inches is “5 ft 8 in”, not “5.67 ft”. The converter shows the decimal; this page helps you read it as a real height or length.

Reading the decimal as feet and inches

Take the whole-number part as the feet, then multiply the leftover by 12 for the inches. So 5.67 ft is 5 feet, and 0.67 × 12 ≈ 8 inches. Common ones worth memorising: 60 in = 5 ft 0 in, 66 in = 5 ft 6 in, 72 in = 6 ft 0 in. A standard interior door is 80 in (6 ft 8 in) tall, and the average US adult man is about 69 in (5 ft 9 in).

Inches to feet reference

Inches	Feet (decimal)	Feet and inches
12 in	1.00 ft	1 ft 0 in
36 in	3.00 ft	3 ft 0 in (1 yard)
60 in	5.00 ft	5 ft 0 in
66 in	5.50 ft	5 ft 6 in
72 in	6.00 ft	6 ft 0 in
80 in	6.67 ft	6 ft 8 in (door height)

See these lengths next to real objects on our 60 inches compared and 6 feet compared pages.

When to use feet and when to stay in inches

Trades keep small dimensions in inches (a “3/4 inch gap”) and larger ones in feet (a “9 foot wall”), switching around the 2-to-3 foot mark. TVs, monitors and paper stay in inches; room sizes, ceilings and land go to feet. If you need metres as well – for a mixed imperial/metric plan – the feet to metres converter and the full length converter take it from here. To break a measurement down to centimetres, use inches to cm.