Area Converter
Convert area between square metric and imperial units, including hectares and acres for land measurement.
How it works
Area factors are the square of the corresponding length factors, which trips people up. A foot is 0.3048 m, so a square foot is 0.3048² = 0.0929 m² — not 0.3048 m². Doubling a room's dimensions quadruples its area.
Land is measured in its own units. A hectare is 10,000 m² (a 100 m square), and an acre is 4,046.86 m² — historically the area a team of oxen could plough in a day, which is why it is not a round number in any modern system.
There are roughly 2.471 acres to a hectare. That awkward ratio is worth checking rather than estimating when land value is involved.
The formula
m² → ft²
ft² = m² × 10.7639
ft² → m²
m² = ft² ÷ 10.7639
Any pair in this family
result = value × (factor of source ÷ factor of target)
Every unit is defined against the m2, so any combination converts in one step.
Worked examples
| Scenario | Working | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 1 m² to square feet | 1 ÷ 0.092903 | 10.764 sq ft |
| 1 hectare to acres | 10000 ÷ 4046.86 | 2.471 acres |
| A 10 m × 10 m plot | 100 m² | 1,076 sq ft |
When you'd use it
- Converting a property's floor area between systems
- Comparing land in acres against hectares
- Estimating flooring, paint or turf quantities
- Reading a plan drawn in the other system
Common questions
How many square feet are in a square metre?
10.7639. Note this is the square of the length factor — since a metre is 3.2808 feet, a square metre is 3.2808², not 3.2808.
How big is an acre?
4,046.86 square metres, or about 0.405 hectares. It is not a square shape by definition — it is just an area, historically one chain by one furlong.
Why does doubling a room's size quadruple the area?
Because area is two-dimensional. Doubling both the length and the width multiplies the area by 2 × 2 = 4. The same reasoning is why area factors are squared length factors.
Is anything I enter sent anywhere?
No. Every conversion runs in your browser, so nothing you type is uploaded, logged or stored. There is no account and no record of what you converted.