Square meters, square feet, acres, hectares and more

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Type a value in any field — every other unit updates instantly. The highlighted field is the one you are editing.

Common references

Click a familiar area to load it into the converter.


About Area Unit Converter

The area unit converter translates any area between eight units at once: square meters, square feet, square yards, square centimeters, square kilometers, ares, hectares, and acres. Type a value into whichever field you have, and every other unit updates instantly — no “from” and “to” dropdowns to fiddle with.

Mixed-unit area problems are everywhere: property listings switch between m², ft², and acres depending on the country; land registries use hectares and ares; and US real estate runs on square feet and acres. Having all eight values visible side by side beats converting pair by pair.

To keep the numbers tangible, the tool includes common references — a parking stall, a tennis court, a football pitch — that load into the converter with one click. It is free and runs entirely in your browser, so conversions are instant no matter how many you do.

How to use Area Unit Converter

  1. Type your area value into the field for the unit you know — m², ft², acres, hectares, or any other.
  2. Read the converted value from every other field; the one you are editing stays highlighted.
  3. Click a common reference (parking stall, tennis court, football pitch) to load a familiar area.
  4. Use Clear all to reset and start a new conversion.

Frequently asked questions

One square meter equals about 10.764 square feet, since 1 m = 3.2808 ft and area scales with the square. Going the other way, 1 ft² ≈ 0.0929 m².

One acre is 4,046.86 m² — about 0.405 hectares, or 43,560 ft². Roughly speaking, a football pitch is a bit under two acres.

An are is 100 m² (a 10 × 10 m square) and a hectare is 100 ares, i.e. 10,000 m². Hectares dominate modern land measurement; ares survive mainly in European property deeds.

The converter treats every unit as a live view of the same underlying area. Whichever field you edit becomes the source, and the remaining seven are recomputed instantly — handy for comparing several unit systems at a glance.

They use the exact international definitions (1 ft = 0.3048 m, 1 acre = 43,560 ft²), so precision is limited only by display rounding. For legal land areas, the registered survey figure always takes precedence.

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