📏 Length & height
142 cm in Feet
142 centimetres is 4 feet 7.9 inches, or 4.659 feet. That uses the international foot of exactly 0.3048 m, so the figure is exact to the precision shown.
The short answer
142 cm = 4 ft 7.9 in
Also written as 4.659 ft, or 55.91 inches.
About 142 cm in feet
142 cm is 4.659 ft because one foot is 30.48 cm: 142 ÷ 30.48 = 4.659. Going through inches gives the same answer and is easier to read: 142 ÷ 2.54 = 55.91 inches, which is 4 whole feet (48 inches) plus 7.91 inches.
Height is the one place where feet and inches are still used in everyday British and American writing, which is why a figure like 142 cm gets written both ways. 142 cm is below both adult medians, so it is a common figure for older children, so it reads naturally as 4′7.9″ on a form that asks for feet and inches.
For a passport, a medical record or a clothing size, quote 142 cm or 4 ft 7.9 in and not both: mixing the two invites a rounding argument. Two decimal places on 4.659 ft already represent about 3 mm, which is finer than any height measurement taken with a wall scale.
Written as a decimal, 142 cm is 1.42 m; in feet it is 4.659 ft, and in inches 55.91. Metric drawings use metres, British property listings use feet, and medical charts use centimetres, so all three turn up for the same 142 cm measurement.
142 cm in feet is the usual way to type this, and the answer is 4.659 ft, or 4 ft 7.9 in to the nearest tenth of an inch. Every one of those forms describes the same length, so pick the one the form in front of you asks for.
How the calculation works
- 142 cm ÷ 30.48 = 4.659 ft
- 142 cm × 0.0328084 = 4.659 ft
- 142 cm ÷ 2.54 = 55.91 in, then ÷ 12 = 4 ft 7.9 in
Reference values
| Centimetres | Feet and inches | Decimal feet |
|---|---|---|
| 137 cm | 4 ft 5.9 in | 4.495 ft |
| 138 cm | 4 ft 6.3 in | 4.528 ft |
| 139 cm | 4 ft 6.7 in | 4.560 ft |
| 140 cm | 4 ft 7.1 in | 4.593 ft |
| 141 cm | 4 ft 7.5 in | 4.626 ft |
| 142 cm | 4 ft 7.9 in | 4.659 ft |
| 143 cm | 4 ft 8.3 in | 4.692 ft |
| 144 cm | 4 ft 8.7 in | 4.724 ft |
| 145 cm | 4 ft 9.1 in | 4.757 ft |
| 146 cm | 4 ft 9.5 in | 4.790 ft |
| 147 cm | 4 ft 9.9 in | 4.823 ft |