1 mile per hour in kilometers per hour

Result

The conversion result is: 1 mile per hour is equivalent to 1.609344 kilometers per hour.^[1]

Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 kilometer per hour is equal to 0.621371192237334 times 1 mile per hour.

It can also be expressed as: 1 mile per hour is equal to 1 / 0.621371192237334 kilometers per hour.

Approximation

An approximate numerical result would be: one mile per hour is about one point six one kilometers per hour, or alternatively, a kilometer per hour is about zero point six two times one mile per hour.

Units involved

This is how the units in this conversion are defined:

Miles Per Hour

"Miles per hour (abbreviated mph, MPH or mi/h) is an imperial and United States customary unit of speed expressing the number of statute miles covered in one hour. Although kilometres per hour is now the most widely used measure of speed, miles per hour remains the standard unit for speed limits in the United States, the United Kingdom, Antigua & Barbuda and Puerto Rico, although the latter two use kilometres for long distances."

Kilometers Per Hour

"The kilometer per hour is a unit of speed, expressing the number of kilometres travelled in one hour. The unit symbol is km/h. Worldwide, it is the most commonly used unit of speed on road signs and car speedometers."

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.