Area Converter
Fixpio’s area converter restates a floor, room or piece of land in the unit you actually think in — instantly, in your browser. Enter a value, pick the unit you have and the unit you need, and the answer updates as you type: an apartment listed in square metres, flooring sold by the square yard, or a plot described in acres or hectares. Same space, same size — just a number you can picture.
Convert Area
Enter an area and choose your units — the result appears straight away.
Enter the area as a single figure. If you have a rectangular room or plot, multiply its length by its width first, then convert that total.
From a single room to a whole plot of land
The areas people convert most, in the units they actually meet.
Rooms and flooring
A room measured in square metres but floored with tiles priced per square foot — or the other way round — needs one honest figure before you order. Convert first, then add your usual allowance for cuts and waste.
Comparing homes fairly
An 80-square-metre apartment and a 900-square-foot one sound incomparable until both are in the same unit (they are 861 and about 84 square metres, as it turns out — closer than they look). Converting every listing to one scale makes shortlists honest.
Land in acres or hectares
Farms and building plots are listed in hectares across most of the world and in acres in the US and UK. Converting between them — and down to square metres or square feet — lets you compare two parcels without either sounding bigger than it is.
About this converter
Most visits to an area converter start with a listing in the wrong unit: square metres to square feet for an apartment, square feet to square metres for flooring, acres to hectares for a field. The maths behind every result on this page is the same — the area is first expressed in square metres, then converted into the unit you chose. The anchor facts are exact: 1 square foot is 0.09290304 square metres, so 1 square metre is 10.7639 square feet, and 1 square yard is 9 square feet.
Land units scale up from the same base. One acre is exactly 43,560 square feet, which is 4,046.86 square metres; one hectare is exactly 10,000 square metres, which makes it 2.47105 acres. At the top of the scale, 1 square kilometre is 100 hectares and 1 square mile is 640 acres (2.58999 square kilometres). Whichever pair you choose, the space itself does not change — only the way it is described. For anything contractual, treat the converted figure as a reading aid and check it against the deed, plan or survey for the property.
Frequently asked questions
Straight answers about acres, hectares and square feet.
How many square feet are in an acre?
Exactly 43,560 square feet. The figure comes from the acre’s historical shape — a strip one chain wide (66 feet) by one furlong long (660 feet), and 66 × 660 = 43,560. In metric terms, one acre is 4,046.86 square metres.
How many square feet are in a square metre?
10.7639 square feet. Because a square foot is exactly 0.09290304 square metres, converting the other way is a division: square feet = square metres ÷ 0.09290304. This is the conversion behind most apartment and flooring figures — 50 square metres, a typical small flat, is 538.20 square feet.
Is a hectare bigger than an acre?
Yes. A hectare is exactly 10,000 square metres (a square 100 metres on each side), while an acre is 4,046.86 square metres — so one hectare equals 2.47105 acres. To convert hectares to acres, multiply by 2.47105; to go back, multiply acres by 0.404686.
A flat is listed as 100 square metres. How big is that in square feet?
100 × 10.7639 = 1,076.39 square feet. That is a generous two- or three-bedroom apartment in most markets. The same shortcut works for any listing: multiply the square-metre figure by 10.7639, or enter it above and read the answer directly.
How many acres are in a square mile?
Exactly 640 acres. A square mile is also 2.58999 square kilometres, or 259 hectares. The 640-acre figure is why older US land descriptions divide so neatly — a quarter-section of a township is 160 acres.
How many square feet is a quarter of an acre?
A quarter-acre is 0.25 × 43,560 = 10,890 square feet, or about 1,011.71 square metres. It is a common suburban lot size — enough for a house of around 2,000 square feet of living space with garden around it. Note that lot area and living area are different figures: the lot figure is the land, the living figure is the floor space inside the home.