188 cm in Feet and Inches
188 cm is
6' 2"
Exactly 74.0157 inches, rounded to 6' 2" — the whole inch a height is written in on a licence, a passport or a doctor’s chart. The fraction above that is real and never said out loud.
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Every way to write it
| Feet and inches | 6' 2" |
| Total inches | 74.0157 in |
| Centimetres | 188 cm |
| Metres | 1.8800 m |
The centimetre figure is exact; the feet-and-inches figure is that number rounded to the nearest whole inch.
The heights either side
Why the answer is rounded at all
An inch is exactly 25.4 millimetres, fixed by agreement in 1959 rather than measured, so every conversion here is exact until somebody asks for it in feet and inches. A round centimetre almost never lands on a whole inch: 170 cm is 66.93 inches, which is 5 feet 6.93 inches. Every official record — licence, passport, medical chart — rounds that to the nearest whole inch, and so does the figure at the top of this page. The exact number is in the table above, where it belongs.