About this tool
The Height Converter switches a person's height between centimetres and feet-plus-inches — the exact conversion most people search for, such as "175 cm in feet" or "5 foot 9 in cm". Pick a direction, enter your height, and the grid shows the feet-and-inches form, centimetres, metres and total inches together.
The maths uses the exact definition 1 inch = 2.54 cm. Converting centimetres to feet-and-inches: total inches = cm ÷ 2.54, feet = the whole-number part of total inches ÷ 12, and the remaining inches are total inches − feet × 12, rounded to one decimal. If rounding pushes the inches to 12.0, the tool carries it up to the next foot so you never see an impossible value like 5' 12". Converting the other way: cm = (feet × 12 + inches) × 2.54.
Unlike a construction feet-and-inches calculator that adds fractional measurements, this tool is tuned for body height: single value in, all common forms out. Everything runs locally in your browser with plain JavaScript — no uploads and no network calls — and results are rounded for easy reading (inches to one decimal, centimetres and metres to two).