📏 Length & height
188 cm in Feet
188 centimetres is 6 feet 2 inches, or 6.168 feet. That uses the international foot of exactly 0.3048 m, so the figure is exact to the precision shown.
The short answer
188 cm = 6 ft 2 in
Also written as 6.168 ft, or 74.02 inches.
About 188 cm in feet
188 cm is 6.168 ft because one foot is 30.48 cm: 188 ÷ 30.48 = 6.168. Going through inches gives the same answer and is easier to read: 188 ÷ 2.54 = 74.02 inches, which is 6 whole feet (72 inches) plus 2.02 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 188 cm gets written both ways. 188 cm is taller than the 175 cm median adult man in most European and North American surveys, so it reads naturally as 6′2″ on a form that asks for feet and inches.
For a passport, a medical record or a clothing size, quote 188 cm or 6 ft 2 in and not both: mixing the two invites a rounding argument. Two decimal places on 6.168 ft already represent about 3 mm, which is finer than any height measurement taken with a wall scale.
Written as a decimal, 188 cm is 1.88 m; in feet it is 6.168 ft, and in inches 74.02. Metric drawings use metres, British property listings use feet, and medical charts use centimetres, so all three turn up for the same 188 cm measurement.
188 cm in feet is the usual way to type this, and the answer is 6.168 ft, or 6 ft 2 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
- 188 cm ÷ 30.48 = 6.168 ft
- 188 cm × 0.0328084 = 6.168 ft
- 188 cm ÷ 2.54 = 74.02 in, then ÷ 12 = 6 ft 2 in
Reference values
| Centimetres | Feet and inches | Decimal feet |
|---|---|---|
| 183 cm | 6 ft 0 in | 6.004 ft |
| 184 cm | 6 ft 0.4 in | 6.037 ft |
| 185 cm | 6 ft 0.8 in | 6.070 ft |
| 186 cm | 6 ft 1.2 in | 6.102 ft |
| 187 cm | 6 ft 1.6 in | 6.135 ft |
| 188 cm | 6 ft 2 in | 6.168 ft |
| 189 cm | 6 ft 2.4 in | 6.201 ft |
| 190 cm | 6 ft 2.8 in | 6.234 ft |
| 191 cm | 6 ft 3.2 in | 6.266 ft |
| 192 cm | 6 ft 3.6 in | 6.299 ft |
| 193 cm | 6 ft 4 in | 6.332 ft |