Centimeter (cm)
The centimeter is one hundredth of a meter and is useful for height, object sizes, clothing, and household measurement.
History: the centimeter spread with decimal metric prefixes as one hundredth of a meter.
Quickly convert centimeters to inches without lookup tables or manual math.
This page is focused on converting centimeters to inches. Type a number into the first field and the result appears immediately in the second field.
Example: 1 cm = 0.3937007874 in. Conversion formula: result = value × 0.01 / 0.0254.
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The centimeter is one hundredth of a meter and is useful for height, object sizes, clothing, and household measurement.
History: the centimeter spread with decimal metric prefixes as one hundredth of a meter.
The inch equals 1/12 of a foot and is common for screens, threads, pipes, parts, and small dimensions.
History: the inch came from small craft and trade measures; the modern inch is exactly 25.4 millimeters.
Enter a value in the Centimeter field. The converter applies the formula "result = value × 0.01 / 0.0254" and immediately shows the result in inches.
1 cm = 0.3937007874 in.
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