Elevation Converter

Elevation conversion between feet and meters.

The conversion:

• 1 foot = 0.3048 meters (exact)
• 1 meter = 3.28084 feet

Notable peaks and elevations:

• Mount Everest: 29,032 ft (8,849 m): Nepal/China
• K2: 28,251 ft (8,611 m): Pakistan/China
• Denali (McKinley): 20,310 ft (6,190 m): United States
• Mont Blanc: 15,774 ft (4,808 m): France/Italy
• Mount Kilimanjaro: 19,341 ft (5,895 m): Tanzania
• Mount Fuji: 12,389 ft (3,776 m): Japan

Other notable elevations:

• Denver, Colorado: 5,280 ft (1,609 m): “Mile High City”
• Dead Sea: -1,412 ft (-430 m): lowest land point on Earth
• Commercial airplane cruising: 35,000 ft (10,668 m)

Elevation is simply height above sea level, so the conversion is plain feet-to-meters, but the reason it matters is rarely academic. Air thins as you climb, which changes how engines breathe, how water boils, and how the body copes. Roughly every 1,000 feet (300 m) lowers water’s boiling point by about 1°F, which is exactly why packaged cake mixes print separate high-altitude instructions.

One subtlety the numbers hide: “sea level” is a defined reference, not a fixed physical line, because tides and local variations in gravity leave the real ocean surface slightly uneven. Surveyors work from an agreed model rather than the actual water. For everyday use none of that matters, and the conversion is exact, since the foot is defined as precisely 0.3048 meters, so switching between feet and meters never introduces rounding.