Convert foot per second to knot
1 ft/s = 0.5924838013 kn
sig figs
1 ft/s = 0.592 kn
1 ft/s in every speed unit
| millimeter per year | 9,620,000,000 mm/yr |
| millimeter per day | 26,300,000 mm/day |
| millimeter per hour | 1,100,000 mm/h |
| inch per day | 1,040,000 in/day |
| foot per day | 86,400 ft/d |
| inch per hour | 43,200 in/h |
| meter per day | 26,300 m/d |
| millimeter per minute | 18,300 mm/min |
| meter per hour | 1,100 m/h |
| inch per minute | 720 in/min |
| millimeter per second | 305 mm/s |
| foot per minute | 60 ft/min |
| centimeter per second | 30.5 cm/s |
| meter per minute | 18.3 m/min |
| inch per second | 12 in/s |
| kilometer per hour | 1.1 km/h |
| foot per second | 1 ft/s |
| mile per hour | 0.682 mph |
| knot | 0.592 kn |
| meter per second | 0.305 m/s |
| mach (sea level) | 0.000896 Ma |
| kilometer per second | 0.000305 km/s |
| speed of light | 1.02e-09 c |
How the conversion works
Multiply by 0.5924838013 to go from foot per second to knot, or divide by it to go back. Every conversion on this site routes through the SI value (m/s) rather than a table of pairwise factors, so a round-trip returns exactly what you started with.
Going the other way? knot to foot per second: 1 kn = 1.687809857 ft/s.
foot per second to knot: common values
| 1 ft/s | 0.5924838 kn |
| 2 ft/s | 1.1849676 kn |
| 3 ft/s | 1.7774514 kn |
| 5 ft/s | 2.962419 kn |
| 10 ft/s | 5.924838 kn |
| 15 ft/s | 8.887257 kn |
| 20 ft/s | 11.849676 kn |
| 25 ft/s | 14.812095 kn |
| 50 ft/s | 29.62419 kn |
| 75 ft/s | 44.436285 kn |
| 100 ft/s | 59.24838 kn |
| 250 ft/s | 148.12095 kn |
| 500 ft/s | 296.2419 kn |
| 1000 ft/s | 592.4838 kn |
Other speed conversions
m/s → knkm/h → knft/s → m/sft/s → km/hft/s → mphft/s → ft/minmph → knft/min → kn