Mile per Hour (mph)
Miles per hour measure how many statute miles are traveled in one hour — 1 mph equals 0.44704 m/s.
Miles per hour dominate US and UK road speed limits, vehicle gauges, and aviation wind reports.
Convert mile per hour to meter per second instantly. Type in either field — results update live.
Selected mph values converted to m/s using the exact factor from this tool.
| mph | m/s |
|---|---|
| 0.01 | 0.0044704 |
| 0.1 | 0.044704 |
| 1 | 0.44704 |
| 2 | 0.89408 |
| 3 | 1.34112 |
| 5 | 2.2352 |
| 10 | 4.4704 |
| 20 | 8.9408 |
| 50 | 22.352 |
| 100 | 44.704 |
| 1,000 | 447.04 |
Exact conversion factors in both directions, plus a worked example.
1 mph = 0.44704 m/s
1 m/s = 2.2369362921 mph
To convert mile per hour to meter per second, multiply by 0.44704.
To convert meter per second to mile per hour, multiply by 2.2369362921.
Example: convert 10 mph to m/s
10 × 0.44704 = 4.4704 m/s
Short background on the units used in this conversion.
Miles per hour measure how many statute miles are traveled in one hour — 1 mph equals 0.44704 m/s.
Miles per hour dominate US and UK road speed limits, vehicle gauges, and aviation wind reports.
Meters per second is the SI unit of speed — how many meters an object travels in one second.
Meters per second appear in physics labs, wind-speed science data, and some European road signage.
m/s = mph × 0.44704mph = m/s × 2.2369362921, using the same exact factors as this converter.Jump to any speed conversion starting from mile per hour — including the reverse direction and every other unit in our dataset.