Area Converter
Convert square meters, square feet, acres and hectares.
Result
10.76391
How it works
Useful for property, land, and material estimates.
When this question comes up
Area conversion is used for property listings, land, flooring and paint estimates. The unit that causes the most trouble is the acre, because it has no simple metric equivalent and is often confused with the hectare, which is about 2.47 times larger.
Rules and limits
- 1 acre = 4046.8564224 m² and 1 hectare = 10 000 m², both exact by definition.
- Square units scale with the square of the length factor, so a small difference in feet becomes a large difference in area.
Worked example
1 acre = 4046.8564224 m² · 100 m² = 1076.391 ft²
Checking the result by hand
1 acre = 4046.8564224 m² and 1 hectare = 10 000 m². Square units scale with the square of the length factor, so 1 m = 3.28084 ft means 1 m² = 10.7639 ft². A 5% error in a length becomes roughly a 10% error in area, which is how flooring and paint quantities end up wrong.
FAQ
How is an acre defined?
1 acre = 4046.8564224 m² (the international acre).