📏 Length & height
160 cm in Feet
160 centimetres is 5 feet 3 inches, or 5.249 feet. That uses the international foot of exactly 0.3048 m, so the figure is exact to the precision shown.
The short answer
160 cm = 5 ft 3 in
Also written as 5.249 ft, or 62.99 inches.
About 160 cm in feet
160 cm is 5.249 ft because one foot is 30.48 cm: 160 ÷ 30.48 = 5.249. Going through inches gives the same answer and is easier to read: 160 ÷ 2.54 = 62.99 inches, which is 5 whole feet (60 inches) plus 2.99 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 160 cm gets written both ways. 160 cm is close to the 162 cm median adult woman in the same surveys, so it reads naturally as 5′3″ on a form that asks for feet and inches.
For a passport, a medical record or a clothing size, quote 160 cm or 5 ft 3 in and not both: mixing the two invites a rounding argument. Two decimal places on 5.249 ft already represent about 3 mm, which is finer than any height measurement taken with a wall scale.
Written as a decimal, 160 cm is 1.60 m; in feet it is 5.249 ft, and in inches 62.99. Metric drawings use metres, British property listings use feet, and medical charts use centimetres, so all three turn up for the same 160 cm measurement.
160 cm in feet is the usual way to type this, and the answer is 5.249 ft, or 5 ft 3 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
- 160 cm ÷ 30.48 = 5.249 ft
- 160 cm × 0.0328084 = 5.249 ft
- 160 cm ÷ 2.54 = 62.99 in, then ÷ 12 = 5 ft 3 in
Reference values
| Centimetres | Feet and inches | Decimal feet |
|---|---|---|
| 155 cm | 5 ft 1 in | 5.085 ft |
| 156 cm | 5 ft 1.4 in | 5.118 ft |
| 157 cm | 5 ft 1.8 in | 5.151 ft |
| 158 cm | 5 ft 2.2 in | 5.184 ft |
| 159 cm | 5 ft 2.6 in | 5.217 ft |
| 160 cm | 5 ft 3 in | 5.249 ft |
| 161 cm | 5 ft 3.4 in | 5.282 ft |
| 162 cm | 5 ft 3.8 in | 5.315 ft |
| 163 cm | 5 ft 4.2 in | 5.348 ft |
| 164 cm | 5 ft 4.6 in | 5.381 ft |
| 165 cm | 5 ft 5 in | 5.413 ft |