convertimate DNA length

Nanometers to kilobases

Type a value in nm to get it in kb instantly.

0.002941kb

Nothing on our list is smaller: a PCR primer is 6.8× longer. Stretched out, that would be about 1×10⁻⁶ mm long.

What it means

How long is that?

Figures are for double-stranded B-DNA: 0.34 nm and about 650 daltons per base pair, and 10.5 base pairs to a turn.

The math

How to convert nm to kb

To convert nanometers to kilobases, multiply by 0.00294118.

Example: 1 nm × 0.00294118 = 0.00294118 kb.

In the other direction, 1 kb = 340 nm.

Every unit

Your DNA in every unit

Tables

nm to kb conversion table

nm to kb conversion table
nmkb
10 nm0.0294118 kb
100 nm0.294118 kb
1,000 nm2.94118 kb
10,000 nm29.4118 kb
100,000 nm294.118 kb
1,000,000 nm2,941.18 kb
10,000,000 nm29,411.8 kb
100,000,000 nm294,118 kb
1×10⁹ nm2,941,180 kb
3.1×10⁹ nm9,117,650 kb
kb to nm conversion table
kb to nm conversion table
kbnm
10 kb3,400 nm
100 kb34,000 nm
1,000 kb340,000 nm
10,000 kb3,400,000 nm
100,000 kb34,000,000 nm
1,000,000 kb340,000,000 nm
10,000,000 kb3.4×10⁹ nm
100,000,000 kb3.4×10¹⁰ nm
1×10⁹ kb3.4×10¹¹ nm
3.1×10⁹ kb1.054×10¹² nm

Quick answers

Quick answers

How many kb is 1 nm?
1 nm is 0.00294118 kb.
How many kb is 10 nm?
10 nm is 0.0294118 kb.

The units

About these units

Nanometers (nm)

The real physical length, at 0.34 nm per base pair.

Kilobases (kb)

A thousand base pairs, the working unit for genes and plasmids.

Learn more about length units

Keep going

Related conversions