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Miles per hour to kilometres per hour

One mile per hour is 1.609344 kilometres per hour.

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

Miles per hour to kilometres per hour table

Common mile per hour values converted to kilometres per hour
Miles per hour (mph)Kilometres per hour (km/h)
11.609344
23.218688
34.828032
58.04672
1016.09344
2032.18688
2540.2336
5080.4672
100160.9344
500804.672
1,0001,609.344

How the conversion works

Multiply by 1.609344 to go from miles per hour to kilometres per hour, or by 0.6213711922 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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