What size is a double bed in metric?
Its annoying me at this statge, i live in a country (Éire / Ireland) where we”re taught to ignore imperial messurments and use metric only but then i go looking to buy a double bed (standard in US?) its in imperial. so could anybody
give me an idea of the size width and length of a double bed in metric meters?
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the mattress size for the US Australia and the UK is
imperial is 54” x 75”
metric is 1.38 × 1.90 m
(width × length)
but in Europe the size is
imperial is 55″ × 79″
metric is 1.4 × 2 m
hope this helps
thanks
Mick
Its 135cm x 190cm
The site below also has a comparison chart of the three main regions.
The reason for the imperial measurements is because we are lamped in with the UK and they still use imperial far too much.