Yards to Meters
Convert yards to meters in your browser. A yard is exactly 0.9144 meters — close to a meter, but not one.
m = yd × 0.9144
NIST SP 811 (2008), Appendix B.8 — yard (yd) to meter (m) = 9.144 E−01
Fabric, garden hose, rope and sports pitches are sold and marked out in yards in some places and meters in others. The two are close enough that people treat them as interchangeable, and far enough apart that it shows: a yard is 0.9144 meters, so ten yards is short of ten meters by most of a stride.
How it is calculated
m = yd × 0.9144
A yard is three feet, and a foot is exactly 0.3048 meters, so the factor is exact. Treating a yard as a meter is out by 8.6 % — on a 100 yard pitch that is more than eight meters, which is nobody's rounding error.
Source: NIST SP 811 (2008), Appendix B.8 — yard (yd) to meter (m) = 9.144 E−01
Common values
| yards | meters |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0.9144 |
| 2 | 1.8288 |
| 5 | 4.572 |
| 10 | 9.144 |
| 25 | 22.86 |
| 50 | 45.72 |
| 100 | 91.44 |
| 110 | 100.584 |
| 220 | 201.168 |
| 440 | 402.336 |
| 880 | 804.672 |
Questions people ask
- How long is an American football field in meters?
- The playing area is 100 yards, which is 91.44 meters. With both end zones it comes to 120 yards, or 109.73 meters — a shade under the 110 meters people often quote.
- Is buying fabric by the yard the same as by the meter?
- No, and it favours the seller. A meter is about 9 % more cloth than a yard. If a pattern calls for meters and the shop sells yards, buy the extra — the shortfall shows up at the last seam.
- Why is a yard 0.9144 meters exactly?
- It follows from the 1959 agreement that fixed the inch at exactly 25.4 millimeters. A yard is 36 inches, so it became exactly 914.4 millimeters. Like the foot, it no longer has a definition of its own.
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