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Kilometres per hour to miles per hour

One kilometre per hour is 0.6213711922 miles per hour.

1 kilometre per hour = 0.6213711922 miles per hour · 1 mile per hour = 1.609344 kilometres per hour

This factor is exact, not rounded. It comes from the definition of the units rather than from a measurement, so the only limit on precision is how many digits are worth showing.

Kilometres per hour to miles per hour table

Common kilometre per hour values converted to miles per hour
Kilometres per hour (km/h)Miles per hour (mph)
10.6213711922
21.242742384
31.864113577
53.106855961
106.213711922
2012.42742384
2515.53427981
5031.06855961
10062.13711922
500310.6855961
1,000621.3711922

How the conversion works

Multiply by 0.6213711922 to go from kilometres per hour to miles per hour, or by 1.609344 to go back the other way. Both figures are exact rather than rounded: they follow from the definitions of the units, not from anybody measuring something.

The exactness is more interesting than it sounds. Since the International Yard and Pound Agreement of 1959, the inch has been defined as exactly 25.4 millimetres and the pound as exactly 0.45359237 kilograms. Every other imperial length and weight follows from those two by whole-number ratios, which means the imperial system is now defined in terms of the metric one rather than alongside it.

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