What Is 220°C in Fahrenheit?

How to Convert Celsius to Fahrenheit

To convert degrees Celsius to degrees Fahrenheit, multiply by 9/5, then add 32.

For example: 25 °C × 9/5 = 45, and 45 + 32 = 77 °F.

Where You Meet This Number

This is the high end of a domestic oven: pizza, puff pastry, crusty bread and anything that needs to set fast on the outside. American recipes reach for 425 °F or 450 °F in the same situations.

A pizza baked at 220 °C for 12 minutes goes into an American oven at 425 °F.

What People Get Wrong

At this temperature preheating actually matters. An oven that says it has reached 220 °C often has hot air but cold walls, and the radiant heat from those walls is what crisps a base. Give it a further 15 minutes.

Oven Temperatures in Celsius and Fahrenheit

About These Scales

Degree Celsius

The Celsius scale puts the freezing point of water at 0 degrees and its boiling point at 100 degrees at sea level. It is the everyday temperature scale in nearly every country except the United States.

Degree Fahrenheit

On the Fahrenheit scale water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212 degrees, so one Fahrenheit degree is 5/9 the size of a Celsius degree. It remains the standard scale for weather, ovens and body temperature in the United States.

Definitions follow The SI Brochure, BIPM. See how we calculate for the exact values and rounding rules.