1 centimeter in inches
Result
The conversion result is: 1 centimeter is equivalent to 0.393700787401575 inches.[1]

Conversion in the opposite direction
The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 inch is equal to 2.54 times 1 centimeter.
It can also be expressed as: 1 centimeter is equal to 1 / 2.54 inches.
Approximation
An approximate numerical result would be: one centimeter is about zero point three nine inches, or alternatively, a inch is about zero times one centimeter.
Footnotes
[1] The precision is 15 significant digits (fourteen digits to the right of the decimal point).
Results may contain small errors due to the use of floating point arithmetic.