Convert knot to foot per second

1 kn = 1.687809857 ft/s

1 kn = 1.69 ft/s

1 kn in every speed unit

meter per second	0.514 m/s
kilometer per hour	1.85 km/h
foot per second	1.69 ft/s
mile per hour	1.15 mph
knot	1 kn
foot per minute	101 ft/min
centimeter per second	51.4 cm/s
meter per hour	1,850 m/h
meter per day	44,400 m/d
foot per day	146,000 ft/d

How the conversion works

Multiply by 1.687809857 to go from knot to foot 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? foot per second to knot — 1 ft/s = 0.5924838013 kn.

knot to foot per second — common values

1 kn	1.6878099 ft/s
2 kn	3.3756197 ft/s
3 kn	5.0634296 ft/s
5 kn	8.4390493 ft/s
10 kn	16.878099 ft/s
15 kn	25.317148 ft/s
20 kn	33.756197 ft/s
25 kn	42.195246 ft/s
50 kn	84.390493 ft/s
75 kn	126.58574 ft/s
100 kn	168.78099 ft/s
250 kn	421.95246 ft/s
500 kn	843.90493 ft/s
1000 kn	1,687.8099 ft/s

Other speed conversions

m/s → ft/s km/h → ft/s mph → ft/s kn → m/s kn → km/h kn → mph kn → ft/min ft/min → ft/s

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