179 cm in Feet and Inches
179 cm is 5 feet 10.47 inches (5′ 10″).
- Feet & inches
- 5 ft 10.47 in
- Rounded
- 5′ 10″
- Decimal feet
- 5.8727 ft
- Total inches
- 70.4724 in
- Meters
- 1.79 m
How it's calculated
- 179 cm ÷ 2.54 = 70.4724 inches
- 70.4724 ÷ 12 = 5 feet, remainder 10.47 inches
- Rounded to the nearest inch: 5′ 10″
For reference, this is about 4 cm taller than the average US adult man (≈175 cm) and about 17 cm taller than the average US adult woman (≈162 cm). Averages are rounded, from CDC body-measurement surveys.