Kilobyte (KB)
A decimal kilobyte (KB) is exactly 1,000 bytes — the SI-style prefix used by storage vendors and many operating systems.
Decimal KB and MB appear on USB drive labels, broadband speed marketing, and macOS storage displays.
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Selected KB values converted to GB using the exact factor from this tool.
| KB | GB |
|---|---|
| 0.01 | 1e-8 |
| 0.1 | 1e-7 |
| 1 | 0.000001 |
| 2 | 0.000002 |
| 3 | 0.000003 |
| 5 | 0.000005 |
| 10 | 0.00001 |
| 20 | 0.00002 |
| 50 | 0.00005 |
| 100 | 0.0001 |
| 1,000 | 0.001 |
Exact conversion factors in both directions, plus a worked example.
1 KB = 0.000001 GB
1 GB = 1000000 KB
To convert kilobyte to gigabyte, multiply by 0.000001.
To convert gigabyte to kilobyte, multiply by 1000000.
Example: convert 10 KB to GB
10 × 0.000001 = 0.00001 GB
Short background on the units used in this conversion.
A decimal kilobyte (KB) is exactly 1,000 bytes — the SI-style prefix used by storage vendors and many operating systems.
Decimal KB and MB appear on USB drive labels, broadband speed marketing, and macOS storage displays.
A decimal gigabyte (GB) is exactly 1,000,000,000 bytes — one thousand decimal megabytes.
Decimal GB labels phone storage, SSD capacity, and data plan allowances in telecom marketing.
GB = KB × 0.000001KB = GB × 1,000,000, using the same exact factors as this converter.Jump to any data storage conversion starting from kilobyte — including the reverse direction and every other unit in our dataset.