Can anyone give me a website or easy way to convert Km. to miles. You see lots of currency converters--a milage one would be nice! We will be driving in Ireland in about three weeks.

You don't need a converter if you can remember how to do sixth grade math. All you need to remember is that kilometers are shorter than miles, and one mile is about 1.6 km. For ease of conversion, use a factor of 0.6 to multiply km and arrive at miles. To convert miles to km, multiply the miles by 0.6 and then add the original number of km to the result. Or divide the km by 0.6 to get the miles. These results will be accurate to within a few percent, which is plenty good for us travelers.

Here's a handy site:<BR>http://teaching-english-in-japan.net/conversion/miles

Distances in Ireland are calculated in miles, not kilometers, Pat. You needn't worry about conversion factors.

The lovely thing about Ireland's road signs is that SOME of the distances are shown in miles, some in km, usually without an indication as to which is which. Don't worry too much about it, you'll get there sometime....

Divide miles by 5, then multiply by 8 to get kilometres. I.e., 50 miles = 80 kms.<BR>Divide Kms by 8 , then multiply by 5 to get miles.

Divide kilometers in half and add 10% of the original number. 120 km = 72 miles (approx)

Do rental car odometers in Ireland measure miles or kilometers?

&gt;Do rental car odometers in Ireland measure miles or kilometers?&lt;

The newest ones with electronic odometers do both.

The newer ones do either miles or km.

The very old ones measure in furlongs.

Why does it matter, 100km is longer than 10km it's all relative, if the speed limit is 120km then you don't do much over that. Currency is different, you have to pay for that out of your native currency so a conversion is very important. Distance is distance don't worry about such little matters, and as people have said some basic mathematics will solve this burning issue.

The odomoter will have your SPEED in km and miles.
HOWEVER, your distance traveled will be in Kilometers.

Our experience too is that the odometer's always been in kilometers (std Euro setup). Most distance road signs have been in miles, but not all. As said on one of the older posts - sometimes you just can't tell which it is. Driving in Ireland is a lot of fun, but moreso when you just take to trip at its own pace.

Odometer in kilometers (unless the fancy variety as seen on some US models). Speedometer in both.

to estimate, multiply the KM times 6 and drop the last digit.

60 km becomes 6 x 60 = 360 means 36 KM

100 kph 6 x 100 = 600 means 60 mph

The way I learned it was to multiply miles by 5 and divide by 8 to get kilometers. Still works for me.

Personally, you shouldn;t worry about any of it.

If you do then the ONLY number you need to remember is &quot;point 6&quot; (.6)

To get miles from that 120 Km above, MULTIPLY it by .6 120 X .6 = 72 miles

To get Kilometers from those miles then
DIVIDE by .6 72 divided by .6 = 120 Km

FORGET about the &quot;sixth grade math&quot; multiplying by 5 and dividing by 8, adding whatever &quot;percent&quot; etc.

While these other people are still doing the &quot;hard math&quot; calculations, you'll already have arrived.

Enjoy your trip!

And when you get home, start campaigning for the United States to drop those antiquated British Imperial measurements and go metric (it's less painful than you'd think).

a foot note to the posts that say &quot;you can't tell the difference on the signs if the distance is in miles or Km. You can -

older signs in miles - white background black writing

new signs in Km - green background white writing

If you're driving a car with both mph and kph shown on the speedometer (usually one set of numbers under the other) you can quickly convert roadsign distances by just looking at the speedometer scale - for example, you'll find 100 kph just under (or over) 60 mph, therefore 100 kilos = 60 miles, etc.

Nah, metric is sooooooooo boring. Down with the cookie-cutter approach to life.