What is Area Converter?

Converts between square meters, square feet, acres, hectares, and more. Free and private, with results you can use for real estate, land surveys, or quick lookups.

The tool handles ten common units: square millimeters, square centimeters, square inches, square feet, square yards, square meters, acres, hectares, square kilometers, and square miles. Results stay accurate to ten significant figures, and you can download the full conversion table as a CSV for property paperwork, surveying notes, or a quick reference sheet. Each result card also shows the multiplication factor it used, so the math is easy to double-check by hand.

How to use

1. Enter a numeric value in the input field
2. Select the source and target area units
3. See the converted result instantly with full precision

When to use

• Translating an apartment listing in square feet into square meters before contacting an agent.
• Checking a farm plot quoted in acres against a metric land register that uses hectares.
• Estimating paint or flooring quantities when supplier quotes are in unfamiliar units.

Result

Convert 5,000 square feet to square meters: the result is approximately 464.5 sq m.

FAQ

How many square feet are in one square meter?

One square meter equals about 10.7639 square feet. The relationship comes from one meter being 3.2808 feet, then squared. For a quick mental estimate, multiply square meters by 11 and you'll be within 3% of the real figure.

Is an acre the same size everywhere?

The international acre used here is 4,046.86 square meters. A separate US survey acre exists for legacy land records, but the difference is roughly 0.0001%, so far below anything that matters outside official surveys.

How big is a hectare in something I can picture?

A hectare is 10,000 square meters, which is close to one and a half FIFA football pitches or about 2.47 acres. It's the standard unit for farmland and forestry across most of the world outside the US and UK.

Why do tiny areas show up in scientific notation?

Converting something like 1 square inch into square kilometers gives a number with many leading zeros. To keep the table readable, values below 0.0001 switch to exponent form. The underlying calculation still uses full precision.

Can I convert irregular plot shapes?

The tool only converts a single area figure between units. For an irregular plot, calculate the total square meters first (split it into triangles or rectangles, sum the parts), then paste that single number in to convert to whatever unit you need.

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