Convert micrometer to centimeter
1 μm = 0.0001 cm
sig figs
1 μm = 0.0001 cm
1 μm in every length unit
| Planck length | 6.19e+28 lP |
| femtometer | 1,000,000,000 fm |
| picometer | 1,000,000 pm |
| bohr radius | 18,900 a0 |
| angstrom | 10,000 Å |
| nanometer | 1,000 nm |
| micrometer | 1 μm |
| thou | 0.0394 thou |
| point | 0.00283 pt |
| millimeter | 0.001 mm |
| pica | 0.000236 pc |
| centimeter | 0.0001 cm |
| inch | 0.0000394 in |
| decimeter | 0.00001 dm |
| hand | 0.00000984 hh |
| link | 0.00000497 li |
| foot | 0.00000328 ft |
| US survey foot | 0.00000328 ftUS |
| yard | 0.00000109 yd |
| meter | 0.000001 m |
| fathom | 5.47e-07 ftm |
| rod | 1.99e-07 rd |
| chain | 4.97e-08 ch |
| cable length | 5.40e-09 cb |
| furlong | 4.97e-09 fur |
| kilometer | 1.00e-09 km |
| mile | 6.21e-10 mi |
| nautical mile | 5.40e-10 nmi |
| league | 2.07e-10 lea |
| megameter | 1.00e-12 Mm |
| Earth radius | 1.57e-13 REarth |
| light-second | 3.34e-15 ls |
| lunar distance | 2.60e-15 LD |
| solar radius | 1.44e-15 Rsun |
| light-minute | 5.56e-17 lmin |
| astronomical unit | 6.68e-18 AU |
| light-year | 1.06e-22 ly |
| parsec | 3.24e-23 pc |
| kiloparsec | 3.24e-26 kpc |
| megaparsec | 3.24e-29 Mpc |
| gigaparsec | 3.24e-32 Gpc |
How the conversion works
Multiply by 0.0001 to go from micrometer 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 micrometer: 1 cm = 10,000 μm.
micrometer to centimeter: common values
| 1 μm | 0.0001 cm |
| 2 μm | 0.0002 cm |
| 3 μm | 0.0003 cm |
| 5 μm | 0.0005 cm |
| 10 μm | 0.001 cm |
| 15 μm | 0.0015 cm |
| 20 μm | 0.002 cm |
| 25 μm | 0.0025 cm |
| 50 μm | 0.005 cm |
| 75 μm | 0.0075 cm |
| 100 μm | 0.01 cm |
| 250 μm | 0.025 cm |
| 500 μm | 0.05 cm |
| 1000 μm | 0.1 cm |