Area Converter

Unit Converter

Area converter: square metres, hectares and acres

Real estate listings, farms, land parcels and flooring projects use square metres, square centimetres, square kilometres, hectares, decares, square feet and acres. Area cannot be converted from a single length value without additional dimensions.

Common area conversions

• 1 square metre = 10,000 square centimetres
• 1 decare = 1,000 square metres
• 1 hectare = 10,000 square metres
• 1 acre ≈ 4,046.8564 square metres

How many square metres are in a hectare?

One hectare equals exactly 10,000 square metres. A 2.5-hectare field measures 25,000 m². A metric decare, used in some countries, equals 1,000 m².

How is area different from length?

Metres measure linear distance; square metres measure surface area. Rectangle area is length times width, expressed in compatible units.