Bar to meters of head
Type a value in bar to get it in m instantly.
That's 2× as high as a deep borehole pump — nothing on our list beats it. That would reach about 102.2 floors up a building.
Convert the other way: m to bar
What it means
How high will it push?
This is static head. A real system also loses head to friction in the pipe, which grows with the square of the flow.
The math
How to convert bar to m
A column of fluid pushes with p = ρ g h: the height times the density times gravity. For water that is about 1 bar every 10 meters, or 1 psi every 2.31 feet. The figures below use the fluid selected above.
Example: 30 bar = 306.467 m.
The table below is for Water (998 kg/m³).
Every unit
Your head in every unit
Tables
bar to m conversion table
| bar | m |
|---|---|
| 1 bar | 10.2156 m |
| 2 bar | 20.4311 m |
| 5 bar | 51.0778 m |
| 10 bar | 102.156 m |
| 20 bar | 204.311 m |
| 30 bar | 306.467 m |
| 50 bar | 510.778 m |
| 75 bar | 766.166 m |
| 100 bar | 1,021.56 m |
| 150 bar | 1,532.33 m |
| 200 bar | 2,043.11 m |
m to bar conversion table
| m | bar |
|---|---|
| 1 m | 0.09789 bar |
| 2 m | 0.19578 bar |
| 5 m | 0.48945 bar |
| 10 m | 0.9789 bar |
| 20 m | 1.9578 bar |
| 30 m | 2.9367 bar |
| 50 m | 4.8945 bar |
| 75 m | 7.34175 bar |
| 100 m | 9.789 bar |
| 150 m | 14.6835 bar |
| 200 m | 19.578 bar |
Quick answers
Quick answers
- How many m is 1 bar?
- 1 bar is 10.2156 m.
- How many m is 10 bar?
- 10 bar is 102.156 m.
- How many m is 30 bar?
- 30 bar is 306.467 m.
The units
About these units
Bar (bar)
Roughly one bar for every ten meters of water.
Meters of head (m)
How pump curves are drawn everywhere outside the US.
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