Convert centimeter to inch
1 cm = 0.3937007874 in
1 cm = 0.3937 in
1 cm in every length unit
| Planck length | 6.1871e+32 lP |
| femtometer | 10,000,000,000,000 fm |
| picometer | 10,000,000,000 pm |
| bohr radius | 188,970,000 a0 |
| angstrom | 100,000,000 Å |
| nanometer | 10,000,000 nm |
| micrometer | 10,000 μm |
| thou | 393.7 thou |
| point | 28.346 pt |
| millimeter | 10 mm |
| pica | 2.3622 pc |
| centimeter | 1 cm |
| inch | 0.3937 in |
| decimeter | 0.1 dm |
| hand | 0.098425 hh |
| link | 0.04971 li |
| foot | 0.032808 ft |
| US survey foot | 0.032808 ftUS |
| yard | 0.010936 yd |
| meter | 0.01 m |
| fathom | 0.0054681 ftm |
| rod | 0.0019884 rd |
| chain | 0.0004971 ch |
| cable length | 0.000053996 cb |
| furlong | 0.00004971 fur |
| kilometer | 0.00001 km |
| mile | 0.0000062137 mi |
| nautical mile | 0.0000053996 nmi |
| league | 0.0000020712 lea |
| megameter | 1.0000e-08 Mm |
| Earth radius | 1.5696e-09 REarth |
| light-second | 3.3356e-11 ls |
| lunar distance | 2.6015e-11 LD |
| solar radius | 1.4374e-11 Rsun |
| light-minute | 5.5594e-13 lmin |
| astronomical unit | 6.6846e-14 AU |
| light-year | 1.0570e-18 ly |
| parsec | 3.2408e-19 pc |
| kiloparsec | 3.2408e-22 kpc |
| megaparsec | 3.2408e-25 Mpc |
| gigaparsec | 3.2408e-28 Gpc |
How the conversion works
Multiply by 0.3937007874 to go from centimeter to inch, or divide by it to go back. Every conversion on this site routes through the SI value (m) rather than a table of pairwise factors, so a round-trip returns exactly what you started with.
Going the other way? inch to centimeter — 1 in = 2.54 cm.
centimeter to inch — common values
| 1 cm | 0.39370079 in |
| 2 cm | 0.78740157 in |
| 3 cm | 1.1811024 in |
| 5 cm | 1.9685039 in |
| 10 cm | 3.9370079 in |
| 15 cm | 5.9055118 in |
| 20 cm | 7.8740157 in |
| 25 cm | 9.8425197 in |
| 50 cm | 19.685039 in |
| 75 cm | 29.527559 in |
| 100 cm | 39.370079 in |
| 250 cm | 98.425197 in |
| 500 cm | 196.85039 in |
| 1000 cm | 393.70079 in |