📏 Length & height
165 cm in Feet
165 centimetres is 5 feet 5 inches, or 5.413 feet. That uses the international foot of exactly 0.3048 m, so the figure is exact to the precision shown.
The short answer
165 cm = 5 ft 5 in
Also written as 5.413 ft, or 64.96 inches.
About 165 cm in feet
165 cm is 5.413 ft because one foot is 30.48 cm: 165 ÷ 30.48 = 5.413. Going through inches gives the same answer and is easier to read: 165 ÷ 2.54 = 64.96 inches, which is 5 whole feet (60 inches) plus 4.96 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 165 cm gets written both ways. 165 cm is close to the 162 cm median adult woman in the same surveys, so it reads naturally as 5′5″ on a form that asks for feet and inches.
For a passport, a medical record or a clothing size, quote 165 cm or 5 ft 5 in and not both: mixing the two invites a rounding argument. Two decimal places on 5.413 ft already represent about 3 mm, which is finer than any height measurement taken with a wall scale.
Written as a decimal, 165 cm is 1.65 m; in feet it is 5.413 ft, and in inches 64.96. Metric drawings use metres, British property listings use feet, and medical charts use centimetres, so all three turn up for the same 165 cm measurement.
165 cm in feet is the usual way to type this, and the answer is 5.413 ft, or 5 ft 5 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
- 165 cm ÷ 30.48 = 5.413 ft
- 165 cm × 0.0328084 = 5.413 ft
- 165 cm ÷ 2.54 = 64.96 in, then ÷ 12 = 5 ft 5 in
Reference values
| Centimetres | Feet and inches | Decimal feet |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 166 cm | 5 ft 5.4 in | 5.446 ft |
| 167 cm | 5 ft 5.7 in | 5.479 ft |
| 168 cm | 5 ft 6.1 in | 5.512 ft |
| 169 cm | 5 ft 6.5 in | 5.545 ft |
| 170 cm | 5 ft 6.9 in | 5.577 ft |