Why Use This Tool?
Area units pile up in real estate listings: square meters for apartments, square feet for US homes, acres for land, hectares for farms. This converter translates between all of them from one entry — because a 2,000 sq ft apartment and an 185 m² apartment are the same home.
One acre is 4,046.86 m², one hectare is 10,000 m², and the square units scale as the square of the length units — which is why area conversion factors aren't intuitive.
How It Works
- Enter the area value.
- Pick the source and target area units.
- Read every unit's equivalent, target highlighted.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many square feet are in a square meter?
About 10.7639. Enter square meters as the source and read the square-foot row — the standard conversion for comparing apartment sizes.
How big is an acre in square meters?
Exactly 4,046.8564224 m², or about 43,560 square feet — originally the area a yoke of oxen could plow in a day.
What's the difference between a hectare and an acre?
A hectare is 10,000 m² (metric); an acre is 4,046.86 m². One hectare equals about 2.47 acres.
Tips & Things to Watch
- Area factors are length factors squared — 3 ft = 1 yd but 9 sq ft = 1 sq yd.
- Hectares divide into km² by 100; acres into mi² by 640.
- Room areas: use the Length converter for dimensions, then this for the area.