mile per minute (mi/min)
1 mile per minute = 26.8224 metres per second
What is mile per minute?
Mile per minute is a unit of speed equal to 60 miles per hour. It is occasionally used in motorsport, aviation briefings, and quick calculations for high-speed travel in imperial measurement systems.
Notes: High speed unit
Real-world uses
Miles per minute is occasionally used in aviation for expressing high speeds in a more intuitive way than mph for American audiences. An airliner cruising at about 575 mph is traveling roughly 9.6 miles per minute, making distance-to-destination calculations easier.
History
Miles per minute has never been widely adopted as a formal unit but emerged informally in American aviation contexts where expressing high speeds in mph yields very large numbers. It provides a more intuitive sense of how quickly distance is covered.
Common mistakes
Confusing miles per minute with miles per hour—1 mi/min = 60 mph. This is a speed unit rarely seen in everyday use, so people may misinterpret the scale of the numbers involved.
When is this conversion used?
Converting between mile per minute and metre per second is common when working across metric and imperial systems, such as international trade, travel between countries with different measurement standards, or following instructions from a different region.
How to convert mile per minute to metre per second
To convert mile per minute to metre per second, multiply the value by 26.8224.
Conversion formula (from base unit)
x * 26.8224
Measurement standards
The SI unit of speed is metres per second (m/s), a derived unit requiring no independent definition. The knot is defined as exactly one nautical mile (1,852 metres) per hour and is sanctioned for maritime and aeronautical navigation by the International Civil Aviation Organization.
Did you know?
The fastest human-made object is the Parker Solar Probe, which reached 635,266 km/h (about 176 km/s) in 2024 during a close pass of the Sun — fast enough to travel from New York to Tokyo in under a minute.
| miles per minute | metres per second |
|---|---|
| 0.1 | 2.68224 |
| 0.5 | 13.4112 |
| 1 | 26.8224 |
| 2 | 53.6448 |
| 5 | 134.112 |
| 10 | 268.224 |
| 25 | 670.56 |
| 50 | 1,341.12 |
| 100 | 2,682.24 |
| 250 | 6,705.6 |
| 500 | 13,411.2 |
| 1,000 | 26,822.4 |
Common values
| miles per minute | metres per second | |
|---|---|---|
| Walking speed | 0.05219518 miles per minute | 1.4 metres per second |
| City speed limit | 0.51822357 miles per minute | 13.9 metres per second |
| Highway driving | 1.1669351 miles per minute | 31.3 metres per second |
| Commercial aircraft | 9.32056788 miles per minute | 250 metres per second |
| Speed of sound (sea level) | 12.68678418 miles per minute | 340.29 metres per second |
Full mile per minute conversion table
| Unit | Value | Factor |
|---|---|---|
| metre per second | 1 mi/min = 26.8224 m/s | × 26.8224 |
| kilometre per hour | 1 mi/min = 96.56063999 km/h | × 96.56063999 |
| mile per hour | 1 mi/min = 60 mph | × 60 |
| knot | 1 mi/min = 52.13857452 kn | × 52.13857452 |
| foot per second | 1 mi/min = 88 ft/s | × 88 |
| metre per minute | 1 mi/min = 1,609.344 m/min | × 1,609.344 |
| kilometre per second | 1 mi/min = 0.0268224 km/s | × 0.0268224 |
| mach (approx at sea level) | 1 mi/min = 0.07882218 Ma | × 0.07882218 |
| centimetre per second | 1 mi/min = 2,682.24 cm/s | × 2,682.24 |