Convert centimeter to meter
1 cm = 0.01 m
1 cm = 0.01 m
1 cm in every length unit
| femtometer | 10,000,000,000,000 fm |
| picometer | 10,000,000,000 pm |
| nanometer | 10,000,000 nm |
| micrometer | 10,000 μm |
| millimeter | 10 mm |
| centimeter | 1 cm |
| decimeter | 0.1 dm |
| meter | 0.01 m |
| kilometer | 0.00001 km |
| inch | 0.394 in |
| foot | 0.0328 ft |
| yard | 0.0109 yd |
| mile | 0.00000621 mi |
| nautical mile | 0.0000054 nmi |
| astronomical unit | 6.68e-14 AU |
| light-year | 1.06e-18 ly |
| parsec | 3.24e-19 pc |
How the conversion works
Multiply by 0.01 to go from centimeter to meter, 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? meter to centimeter — 1 m = 100 cm.
centimeter to meter — common values
| 1 cm | 0.01 m |
| 2 cm | 0.02 m |
| 3 cm | 0.03 m |
| 5 cm | 0.05 m |
| 10 cm | 0.1 m |
| 15 cm | 0.15 m |
| 20 cm | 0.2 m |
| 25 cm | 0.25 m |
| 50 cm | 0.5 m |
| 75 cm | 0.75 m |
| 100 cm | 1 m |
| 250 cm | 2.5 m |
| 500 cm | 5 m |
| 1000 cm | 10 m |
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