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Length, weight, temperature, and volume, converted as you type.

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Inches

3.937

1 centimetres = 0.393701 inches

Results are rounded to a sensible number of places rather than the full floating point value. If the last digit matters, such as a dose or an engineering tolerance, use a tool built for that.

Measuring cups and a kitchen scale

Temperature is the odd one out

Length, weight, and volume all convert by multiplication, so doubling the input doubles the output. Temperature does not, because Celsius and Fahrenheit have different zero points as well as different step sizes.

This is why 0 degrees Celsius is 32 Fahrenheit rather than 0, and why you cannot convert a temperature difference the same way you convert a temperature. A rise of 10 Celsius is a rise of 18 Fahrenheit, not 50.

The rounding decision

Conversions are shown to a sensible number of decimal places rather than the full float. One kilogram is 2.2046226218 pounds, and nobody needs that in a shopping context.

If you are converting something where the last digit matters, such as a medication dose or an engineering tolerance, use a tool built for that purpose. This one is built for everyday questions.

How to convert units

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    Pick a category

    Length, weight, temperature, or volume.

  2. 2

    Choose the units

    From and to. Swapping them reverses the conversion.

  3. 3

    Type a value

    The result updates immediately, with the conversion factor shown underneath.

Questions people ask

How many pounds are in a kilogram?
One kilogram is about 2.205 pounds. Going the other way, one pound is about 0.454 kilograms.
How do I convert Celsius to Fahrenheit?
Multiply by 9, divide by 5, then add 32. The addition is what makes temperature different from other conversions, since the two scales have different zero points.
How many centimetres are in an inch?
Exactly 2.54 centimetres. That is a defined value rather than a measured one, so the conversion is exact in both directions.

Numbers are easy. Doing it every day is the hard part.

A calculator tells you where you are once. If the thing you actually want is to keep something up, that takes a record rather than a result.