Height Calculator

Convert and calculate your height between feet, inches, and centimeters instantly. Our free height calculator provides accurate conversions for health, fitness, and growth tracking. You can also explore how height develops over time and understand what factors influence growth potential.

Conversion Results

How It Works

1

Enter Your Height

Type your height into the calculator. Example: 170 cm or 5 ft 7 in.

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Select Unit

Choose your current measurement — centimeters, feet, inches, or meters.

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Get Results

See your height automatically converted across all other units. Example: 170 cm = 5 ft 6.9 in = 1.70 m

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Understanding the Tools

Gain insights into height development, prediction methods, and essential conversion factors.

How Tall Will I Be?

“How tall will I be?” or “How tall will my child be?” are questions many people ask. A person’s height is largely determined by genetics (60–80%), with the remainder influenced by nutrition, sleep quality, physical activity, and overall health. Children of very tall or short parents often end up closer to the average height due to a concept called regression toward the mean.

Infants and toddlers grow the fastest. Growth slows after age 2, then accelerates again during puberty before stopping completely — around age 15 for girls and age 18 for boys. Over time, adults may experience a small decrease in height due to changes in bone density, posture, and spinal compression.

Predicting Adult Height

Several methods can estimate how tall a child will become as an adult. While no prediction is exact, these approaches offer a reasonable range:

  • Khamis-Roche Method: Uses the child’s current height, weight, and average parental height.
  • Bone Age Method: Assesses skeletal maturity using wrist and hand X-rays to compare with age-based growth charts.
  • Simple Parental Formula:
    • For boys: Add 2.5 inches (6.5 cm) to the average of both parents’ heights.
    • For girls: Subtract 2.5 inches (6.5 cm) from the average of both parents’ heights.

The CDC Growth Charts are another reliable tool for estimating a child’s future height. These charts compare a child’s current measurements against U.S. population percentiles based on age and sex, helping to identify growth patterns and potential height outcomes.

Quick Reference Conversions

  • 1 foot = 30.48 cm
  • 1 inch = 2.54 cm
  • 1 meter = 100 cm

How to Support Healthy Growth

While you can’t change your genes, you can influence how close you get to your natural height potential. During childhood and adolescence, healthy habits play a major role in maximizing growth:

  • Eat a balanced diet rich in fruits, vegetables, proteins, and whole grains.
  • Avoid excessive sugar, sodium, and processed foods.
  • Exercise regularly to strengthen bones, muscles, and posture.
  • Get consistent sleep — most human growth hormone (HGH) is released during deep sleep.
  • Maintain good posture to avoid spinal compression and long-term height loss.
  • After puberty, most people reach their full height, but staying active and maintaining bone health can prevent early shrinkage and keep you standing tall well into adulthood.

Frequently Asked Questions

The LiteCalc Height Calculator provides exact conversions between centimeters, meters, feet, and inches using standardized formulas.

Aging causes bone density loss and thinner spinal discs, leading to gradual height reduction — typically starting around middle age.

Yes, it includes information on height prediction methods like the Khamis-Roche and bone age techniques, though results are always estimates.

Roughly 60–80% of height is genetic, while nutrition, sleep, and physical activity account for the rest.

Girls typically stop growing around age 15, and boys around age 18, when growth plates close.

After growth plates close, height cannot increase naturally, but maintaining posture, bone health, and core strength can help preserve stature.

Use our BMI Calculator or Weight for Height Calculator to find healthy weight ranges based on your height.

A height percentile compares your height to others of the same age and sex. For example, being in the 75th percentile means you’re taller than 75% of peers.

Yes. People can lose up to 1 inch (2.5 cm) of height throughout the day due to spinal compression, regaining it after sleep.

Absolutely. Deficiencies in protein, calcium, and vitamins can hinder bone development, especially during growth years.