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Converters

Convert between the units Americans use day to day: inches and centimeters, pounds and kilograms, Fahrenheit and Celsius, and more. Every converter shows both directions and a quick reference chart.

127 free tools in this category. See every tool on Lelifi.

Most of these converters exist because the United States measures in inches, pounds, miles and gallons while most of the rest of the world uses centimeters, kilograms, kilometers and liters. That gap shows up in ordinary places: a recipe from a British food blog lists grams, a European hotel site gives room size in meters, and a tire gauge reads in psi while the door sticker on a rental car might say bar.

The mistake that trips people up

Direction is the number one error. To go from pounds to kilograms you divide by 2.2, so a 200 lb suitcase is about 90.7 kg, not 440 kg. Going the other way you multiply. Speed has its own trap: internet plans are sold in megabits per second, but file sizes are shown in megabytes, and there are 8 bits in a byte. A 100 Mbps connection moves 12.5 MB/s, not 100, so a 5 GB file takes about 6 minutes 40 seconds rather than a few seconds.

Every converter here works in both directions and shows a small reference chart, so you can sanity check the answer before you use it.

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