Knot to Kilometer per hour

1 kn = 1.852 km/h

Value

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Precision & format

Significant figures

Notation

1 kn equals

1.852km/h

All 10 units

Kilometer per hourkm/h
1.852
Mile per hourmph
1.150779448
Meter per secondm/s
0.5144444444
Foot per secondft/s
1.687809857
Knotkn
1
Centimeter per secondcm/s
51.44444444
Meter per minutem/min
30.86666667
Inch per minutein/min
1,215.223097
MachMa
sea level, ISA 15 °C
0.001511782434
Speed of lightc
in vacuum
1.716001956 × 10⁻⁹

Knot to Kilometer per hour table

Common Knot values converted to Kilometer per hour
Knot (kn)	Kilometer per hour (km/h)
1	1.852
2	3.704
5	9.26
10	18.52
20	37.04
50	92.6
100	185.2
250	463
500	926
1,000	1,852

How the conversion works

Multiply the knot figure by 1.852 to get kilometer per hour. 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 km/h = 0.5399568 kn — see kilometer per hour to knot.

See all 10 speed units →