Feet to Yards Converter

Feet to Yards

Convert feet (ft) to yards (yd). Both measure distance and dimension, and the conversion comes up in construction, navigation, sports work.

The Formula

`` yards = feet × 0.333333333333 feet = yards × 3 `

One foot is 0.333333 yards, and one yard is 3 feet.

Conversion Table

Feet	Yards
1 ft	0.333333 yd
2 ft	0.666667 yd
5 ft	1.6667 yd
10 ft	3.3333 yd
25 ft	8.3333 yd
50 ft	16.6667 yd
100 ft	33.3333 yd
500 ft	166.6667 yd
1,000 ft	333.3333 yd

The Other Direction

Yards	Feet
1 yd	3 ft
2 yd	6 ft
5 yd	15 ft
10 yd	30 ft
25 yd	75 ft
50 yd	150 ft
100 yd	300 ft
500 yd	1,500 ft
1,000 yd	3,000 ft

What Each Unit Is

Feet (ft) — exactly 0.3048 metres, or one third of a yard. A human foot, standardised across centuries of conflicting local definitions.

Yards (yd) — exactly 0.9144 metres. Historically the distance from Henry I’s nose to his outstretched thumb; standardised against the metre in 1959.

A Sense of Scale

• A ceiling is 8–9 ft
• Aviation altitude is always in feet
• A door is about 6.7 ft
• An American football field is 100 yards
• A stride is roughly a yard
• Fabric is sold by the yard

Precision

The factor 0.333333333333 is exact by international agreement, not a rounded approximation. Any imprecision in a result comes from your input, not the conversion.

In Code

`javascript const footToYard = (value) => value * 0.333333333333; ``

Where This Conversion Comes Up

• Construction
• Navigation
• Sports
• Sewing
• Mapping

How Many Decimals Do You Need?

Rounding the factor costs accuracy, and how much depends on the factor. Converting 137 ft with the factor truncated at each decimal place:

Decimals kept	Factor	137 ft becomes	Error
0	0	0	100.0000%
1	0.3	41.1	10.0000%
2	0.33	45.21	1.0000%
3	0.333	45.621	0.1000%
4	0.3333	45.6621	0.0100%

A rule that holds for any conversion: round once, at the end. Rounding the factor and then multiplying compounds the error through every subsequent calculation, while carrying full precision and rounding the final answer does not.

The right number of significant figures is set by your input, not by the converter. If you measured feet to three significant figures, the answer in yards is only good to three — writing more digits claims precision the measurement never had.

Other Conversions From Feet

The same value in every other unit this converter supports for length:

From	To	Unit
1 ft	0.3048 m	Meters
1 ft	3.0480e-4 km	Kilometers
1 ft	30.48 cm	Centimeters
1 ft	304.8 mm	Millimeters
1 ft	1.8939e-4 mi	Miles
1 ft	12 in	Inches
1 ft	1.6458e-4 nmi	Nautical Miles

Chaining conversions works — feet to metres to feet gives the same answer as feet to feet — but each step rounds, so a chain of three conversions carries three roundings. Convert directly where a direct factor exists.