173 cm in Feet and Inches
173 cm is 5 feet 8.11 inches (5′ 8″).
- Feet & inches
- 5 ft 8.11 in
- Rounded
- 5′ 8″
- Decimal feet
- 5.67585 ft
- Total inches
- 68.1102 in
- Meters
- 1.73 m
How it's calculated
- 173 cm ÷ 2.54 = 68.1102 inches
- 68.1102 ÷ 12 = 5 feet, remainder 8.11 inches
- Rounded to the nearest inch: 5′ 8″
For reference, this is about 2 cm shorter than the average US adult man (≈175 cm) and about 11 cm taller than the average US adult woman (≈162 cm). Averages are rounded, from CDC body-measurement surveys.