📏 Length & height
174 cm in Feet
174 centimetres is 5 feet 8.5 inches, or 5.709 feet. That uses the international foot of exactly 0.3048 m, so the figure is exact to the precision shown.
The short answer
174 cm = 5 ft 8.5 in
Also written as 5.709 ft, or 68.50 inches.
About 174 cm in feet
174 cm is 5.709 ft because one foot is 30.48 cm: 174 ÷ 30.48 = 5.709. Going through inches gives the same answer and is easier to read: 174 ÷ 2.54 = 68.50 inches, which is 5 whole feet (60 inches) plus 8.50 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 174 cm gets written both ways. 174 cm is close to the 162 cm median adult woman in the same surveys, so it reads naturally as 5′8.5″ on a form that asks for feet and inches.
For a passport, a medical record or a clothing size, quote 174 cm or 5 ft 8.5 in and not both: mixing the two invites a rounding argument. Two decimal places on 5.709 ft already represent about 3 mm, which is finer than any height measurement taken with a wall scale.
Written as a decimal, 174 cm is 1.74 m; in feet it is 5.709 ft, and in inches 68.50. Metric drawings use metres, British property listings use feet, and medical charts use centimetres, so all three turn up for the same 174 cm measurement.
174 cm in feet is the usual way to type this, and the answer is 5.709 ft, or 5 ft 8.5 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
- 174 cm ÷ 30.48 = 5.709 ft
- 174 cm × 0.0328084 = 5.709 ft
- 174 cm ÷ 2.54 = 68.50 in, then ÷ 12 = 5 ft 8.5 in
Reference values
| Centimetres | Feet and inches | Decimal feet |
|---|---|---|
| 169 cm | 5 ft 6.5 in | 5.545 ft |
| 170 cm | 5 ft 6.9 in | 5.577 ft |
| 171 cm | 5 ft 7.3 in | 5.610 ft |
| 172 cm | 5 ft 7.7 in | 5.643 ft |
| 173 cm | 5 ft 8.1 in | 5.676 ft |
| 174 cm | 5 ft 8.5 in | 5.709 ft |
| 175 cm | 5 ft 8.9 in | 5.741 ft |
| 176 cm | 5 ft 9.3 in | 5.774 ft |
| 177 cm | 5 ft 9.7 in | 5.807 ft |
| 178 cm | 5 ft 10.1 in | 5.840 ft |
| 179 cm | 5 ft 10.5 in | 5.873 ft |