Convert knot to meter per second
1 kn = 0.5144444444 m/s
1 kn = 0.514 m/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 0.5144444444 to go from knot 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 knot — 1 m/s = 1.943844492 kn.
knot to meter per second — common values
| 1 kn | 0.51444444 m/s |
| 2 kn | 1.0288889 m/s |
| 3 kn | 1.5433333 m/s |
| 5 kn | 2.5722222 m/s |
| 10 kn | 5.1444444 m/s |
| 15 kn | 7.7166667 m/s |
| 20 kn | 10.288889 m/s |
| 25 kn | 12.861111 m/s |
| 50 kn | 25.722222 m/s |
| 75 kn | 38.583333 m/s |
| 100 kn | 51.444444 m/s |
| 250 kn | 128.61111 m/s |
| 500 kn | 257.22222 m/s |
| 1000 kn | 514.44444 m/s |
Other speed conversions
km/h → m/sft/s → m/smph → m/skn → km/hkn → ft/skn → mphkn → ft/minft/min → m/s