Convert kilometer per hour to knot
1 km/h = 0.5399568035 kn
1 km/h = 0.54 kn
1 km/h in every speed unit
| meter per second | 0.278 m/s |
| kilometer per hour | 1 km/h |
| foot per second | 0.911 ft/s |
| mile per hour | 0.621 mph |
| knot | 0.54 kn |
| foot per minute | 54.7 ft/min |
| centimeter per second | 27.8 cm/s |
| meter per hour | 1,000 m/h |
| meter per day | 24,000 m/d |
| foot per day | 78,700 ft/d |
How the conversion works
Multiply by 0.5399568035 to go from kilometer per hour 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 kilometer per hour — 1 kn = 1.852 km/h.
kilometer per hour to knot — common values
| 1 km/h | 0.5399568 kn |
| 2 km/h | 1.0799136 kn |
| 3 km/h | 1.6198704 kn |
| 5 km/h | 2.699784 kn |
| 10 km/h | 5.399568 kn |
| 15 km/h | 8.0993521 kn |
| 20 km/h | 10.799136 kn |
| 25 km/h | 13.49892 kn |
| 50 km/h | 26.99784 kn |
| 75 km/h | 40.49676 kn |
| 100 km/h | 53.99568 kn |
| 250 km/h | 134.9892 kn |
| 500 km/h | 269.9784 kn |
| 1000 km/h | 539.9568 kn |
Other speed conversions
m/s → knkm/h → m/skm/h → ft/skm/h → mphkm/h → ft/minft/s → knmph → knft/min → kn