Kilometer per hour to Meter per second

1 km/h = 0.27777778 m/s

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Notation

1 km/h equals

0.2777777778m/s

All 10 units

Kilometer per hourkm/h
1
Mile per hourmph
0.6213711922
Meter per secondm/s
0.2777777778
Foot per secondft/s
0.9113444153
Knotkn
0.5399568035
Centimeter per secondcm/s
27.77777778
Meter per minutem/min
16.66666667
Inch per minutein/min
656.167979
MachMa
sea level, ISA 15 °C
0.0008162972105
Speed of lightc
in vacuum
9.265669311 × 10⁻¹⁰

Kilometer per hour to Meter per second table

Common Kilometer per hour values converted to Meter per second
Kilometer per hour (km/h)	Meter per second (m/s)
1	0.27777778
2	0.55555556
5	1.3888889
10	2.7777778
20	5.5555556
50	13.888889
100	27.777778
250	69.444444
500	138.88889
1,000	277.77778

How the conversion works

Multiply the kilometer per hour figure by 0.2777777778 to get meter per second. Every factor on this site is anchored to the SI base unit for speed, so the same number is used everywhere it appears.

Going the other way, 1 m/s = 3.6 km/h — see meter per second to kilometer per hour.

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