Hi,what is the difference between knots on the water and miles per hour on the road number wise?.?

Question

Knots per mile or miles versus knots. thanks

Answer 1

knots are slower say your doing 50mph it would be like 44.4 knots something like that heres a link

Answer 2

A knot is 1.15 mph.

a statute mile is 5280 ft and a nautical mile is 6076 ft.

Answer 3

Mark t and Damon are correct.  1.15 = 1 MPH.

Learned and had on tests in the Navy.

Answer 4

1 knot is equal to 1.17 mph

so if a boat is going 10kts it is going 11.7mph

Answer 5

1 mph = 1.50 kts

Answer 6

Thats simple:

1 knot = 1.151 mph.

It the future please use this http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/spe... online conversion utility or just use search on yahoo answers - this question was asked here too many times.

Answer 7

not to quibble about .02 of a knot but Mark T is right.........6076/5280 is indeed 1.15 ( actually 1.15075)

and a "knot" means one nautical mile an hour, so the expression "knots per hour"  is an example of the Department of Redundancy Department

and to further add quasi-useful information..a nautical mile is one minute of longitude or one minute of latitude at the Equator ( or 360 degrees in a circle times 60 minutes in a degree equals 21,600 nautical miles around the Earth); hence the phrase " a mile a minute"  originally had nothing to do with 60 mph.