Area Converter

1 square meter equals about 10.7639 square feet. The conversion factor comes from the exact definition 1 ft = 0.3048 m, which means 1 sq ft = 0.09290304 sq m. The calculator displays the result rounded to four decimal places.

1 acre equals 4,046.86 square meters; 1 hectare equals exactly 10,000 square meters. That makes 1 hectare about 2.471054 acres, or 1 acre about 0.404686 hectares. A 10-acre farm is roughly 4.05 hectares.

A regulation FIFA soccer pitch is roughly 7,140 sq m (about 1.76 acres). A US football field including both end zones is about 5,351 sq m (roughly 1.32 acres). Enter either of those square-meter values to see the full range of unit conversions.

Acres are the standard unit for land area in the US, UK, and Canada, where you'll see them in real-estate listings and farm deeds. Hectares are the metric standard in the EU, Australia, and most of the rest of the world, used in agriculture, forestry, and official land records.

Multiply square miles by 2.589988 to get square kilometers. For example, 10 sq mi = 25.8999 sq km. To go the other way, multiply sq km by 0.386102. The calculator handles both directions automatically across all 10 supported units.