Kilometers to Meters Converter
1 kilometer = 1,000 meters
1 kilometer equals 1,000 meters
How to convert kilometers to meters
Feet, inches, yards and miles use the international foot (0.3048 m). Older US survey-foot records use a different definition; check the survey document before applying these factors.
m = km × 1000One kilometer is 1000 meters, so a single multiplication converts any value.
10,000 m = 10 × 1000Kilometers to meters conversion table
Common values in kilometers, converted to meters.
| Kilometers (km) | Meters (m) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 1,000 |
| 2 | 2,000 |
| 3 | 3,000 |
| 4 | 4,000 |
| 5 | 5,000 |
| 10 | 10,000 |
| 20 | 20,000 |
| 25 | 25,000 |
| 50 | 50,000 |
| 100 | 100,000 |
| 250 | 250,000 |
| 500 | 500,000 |
| 1,000 | 1,000,000 |
About these units
kilometerkm
One thousand metres. The standard unit for road distance in most of the world.
meterm
The SI base unit of length, defined by fixing the speed of light in vacuum at 299,792,458 m/s.
Reference: BIPM SI Brochure (9th ed.).
Sources and precision
Table results are rounded to 8 significant digits; formula constants may be rounded to 10. Worked example answers use 6 significant digits. The converter starts at 6 significant digits and lets you change display precision. Calculations use the stored factors without intermediate rounding. Exact unit definitions do not make an input measurement more precise; conventional and measured factors follow the assumptions stated here.