Convert mps to mph

One meter per second equals 2.236936 miles per hour. To convert any number of meters per second to miles per hour, multiply by 2.23693629.

The converter above works in both directions and updates as you type. Below you will find the formula, a worked example and a reference table of common values.

Speed conversions divide by audience. Road speeds move between kilometres and miles per hour and are what a driver or a runner needs. Metres per second is what every equation of motion expects, so it is the form any physics problem has to reach. Knots belong to the sea and the air, where one knot is one nautical mile per hour and a nautical mile is one minute of latitude — a system built around navigation rather than around convenience.

mps to mph formula

To go the other way, use meter per second = mile per hour ÷ 2.23693629.

About these units

Metres per second is the SI speed unit and the one every equation of motion expects. Wind speeds in meteorology are usually reported in it.

Miles per hour remains the road-speed unit in the United States and the United Kingdom, which is why British road signs are in miles while everything else on them is metric.

Meter per second is also written metres per second, meters per second, mps and ms-1. Mile per hour is also written miles per hour and mi/h.

Sources

1. National Bureau of Standards, "Refinement of Values for the Yard and the Pound", Federal Register, 1 July 1959 — the international yard as exactly 0.9144 m and the avoirdupois pound as exactly 0.45359237 kg.