Want to change an amount of kilometres per hour into knots? Try out our km/h to knots online converter for this speed calculation. More converters available

Conversion Kilometres per hour - Knots

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Conversor de Knots to Kilometres per hour

Used in completely different circumstances, knots and kilometres per hour are two units of speed useful for measuring the speed of different types of vehicles. While knots are used for aircraft and ships to measure their speed in water and air, kilometres per hour are commonly found to measure the speed of cars and is a unit used on road signs over the world. Try out our km/h – knots converter above or view our other speed converters.

How to use the Converter from Km/h to Knots?

Enter into our converter km/h – kn above the number of kilometres per hour you wish to convert and click “convert” for our unit calculator to present the equivalent in knots. To do the opposite conversion, convert knots to kilometres per hour.

Formula to Convert km/h – kn

When doing this kilometres per hour to knots conversion by hand, it might be useful to understand the mathematical equation used to calculate the difference between these two units of speed. As some examples, 12 km/h = 6.48 kn and 60 km/h = 32.4 kn

[number of] kilometres per hour / 1.852 = [number of] knots 

When to use km/h?

Kilometres per hour is the most common unit of speed that is used worldwide. Found on road signs and in car speedometers, it has several different abbreviations such as km/h, the official one, kph, kmph and km/hr. In American English, this unit of speed is spelt as kilometers per hour instead. Use our km/h to kn speed converter above.

When to use knots?

The unit of speed known as knots is an important measurement used in meteorology but also in the air navigation and maritime industries. Its main purpose is to calculate the speed of vessels relative to the fluids in which they travel, whether that is water or air. A knot is equivalent to one nautical mile exactly. Above is our km/h to knots calculator.