165 cm in feet

How to convert 165 cm to feet and inches

Divide by 2.54 to get inches, then divide by 12: the whole number is feet and the remainder is inches.

165 ÷ 2.54 = 64.96 in
64.96 ÷ 12 = 5 ft 4.96 in ≈ 5'5"

165 cm is almost exactly 5'5": the rounding error is under a millimeter.

165 cm in other units

165 cm in everyday terms

• 165 cm is 73.6 cm taller than a standard kitchen counter (91.4 cm).
• 165 cm is 38.2 cm shorter than a standard interior door (203.2 cm).
• 165 cm is 78.8 cm shorter than a standard 8-foot ceiling (243.8 cm).
• 165 cm is 139.8 cm shorter than a basketball rim (304.8 cm).

These reference heights are typical values for buildings and fittings in the US; the chart above draws 165 cm on the same scale as any of them if you add them from the Objects tab.

How 165 cm ranks among adults

165 cm is taller than about 9% of adult men and 70% of adult women in the US.

Percentiles are estimated from the CDC averages, assuming heights follow a normal distribution with a standard deviation of about 7.6 cm for men and 7.1 cm for women. Real distributions differ slightly at the extremes.

Heights near 165 cm

Every centimeter is about 0.39 inches, so 164 cm is 5' 4.6" and 166 cm is 5' 5.4".

• 160 cm5'3"
• 161 cm5'3"
• 162 cm5'4"
• 163 cm5'4"
• 164 cm5'5"
• 166 cm5'5"
• 167 cm5'6"
• 168 cm5'6"
• 169 cm5'7"
• 170 cm5'7"

Compared with average heights

• 165 cm is 10.3 cm shorter than the average US man (175.3 cm).
• 165 cm is 3.7 cm taller than the average US woman (161.3 cm).

Averages: CDC anthropometric reference data for US adults, 2015–2018.

How to measure 165 cm accurately at home

If you want to check whether you really are 165 cm, a careful home measurement is accurate to within about half a centimeter:

1. Measure in the morning, barefoot, standing on a hard floor rather than carpet.
2. Stand with your heels, buttocks, shoulders and the back of your head touching a wall, and look straight ahead.
3. Have someone rest a hardcover book or a set square flat on your head, square against the wall, and mark the wall underneath it.
4. Measure from the floor to the mark with a metal tape, and repeat two or three times; use the average.

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