Convert inch to centimeter
1 in = 2.54 cm
1 in = 2.54 cm
1 in in every length unit
| femtometer | 25,400,000,000,000 fm |
| picometer | 25,400,000,000 pm |
| nanometer | 25,400,000 nm |
| micrometer | 25,400 μm |
| millimeter | 25.4 mm |
| centimeter | 2.54 cm |
| decimeter | 0.254 dm |
| meter | 0.0254 m |
| kilometer | 0.0000254 km |
| inch | 1 in |
| foot | 0.0833 ft |
| yard | 0.0278 yd |
| mile | 0.0000158 mi |
| nautical mile | 0.0000137 nmi |
| astronomical unit | 1.70e-13 AU |
| light-year | 2.68e-18 ly |
| parsec | 8.23e-19 pc |
How the conversion works
Multiply by 2.54 to go from inch to centimeter, 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? centimeter to inch — 1 cm = 0.3937007874 in.
inch to centimeter — common values
| 1 in | 2.54 cm |
| 2 in | 5.08 cm |
| 3 in | 7.62 cm |
| 5 in | 12.7 cm |
| 10 in | 25.4 cm |
| 15 in | 38.1 cm |
| 20 in | 50.8 cm |
| 25 in | 63.5 cm |
| 50 in | 127 cm |
| 75 in | 190.5 cm |
| 100 in | 254 cm |
| 250 in | 635 cm |
| 500 in | 1,270 cm |
| 1000 in | 2,540 cm |
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