Convert kilometer per hour to meter per second
1 km/h = 0.2777777778 m/s
1 km/h = 0.278 m/s
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 0.2777777778 to go from kilometer per hour to meter per second, 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? meter per second to kilometer per hour — 1 m/s = 3.6 km/h.
kilometer per hour to meter per second — common values
| 1 km/h | 0.27777778 m/s |
| 2 km/h | 0.55555556 m/s |
| 3 km/h | 0.83333333 m/s |
| 5 km/h | 1.3888889 m/s |
| 10 km/h | 2.7777778 m/s |
| 15 km/h | 4.1666667 m/s |
| 20 km/h | 5.5555556 m/s |
| 25 km/h | 6.9444444 m/s |
| 50 km/h | 13.888889 m/s |
| 75 km/h | 20.833333 m/s |
| 100 km/h | 27.777778 m/s |
| 250 km/h | 69.444444 m/s |
| 500 km/h | 138.88889 m/s |
| 1000 km/h | 277.77778 m/s |
Other speed conversions
km/h → ft/skm/h → mphkm/h → knkm/h → ft/minft/s → m/smph → m/skn → m/sft/min → m/s