Area Converter

A flat in square meters, a plot in hectares

A rental listing in Spain gives the floor area in square meters, a news story about farmland in France mentions hectares, a property brochure from Dubai uses square feet. Jood's area converter switches between six units: square meter, square kilometer, square foot, square mile, acre and hectare.

How to use it

1. Enter the area, with decimals if needed.
2. Choose the unit you are converting from and the one you want.
3. Click "Start Now" to see the result with the unit name.

Examples worked out with the tool

• A 120 m² apartment is 1,291.6693 square feet, and one square meter is 10.7639 square feet.
• A house listed at 2,000 square feet is 185.8061 m².
• A hectare is 10,000 m², or 2.4711 acres, and an acre is 4,046.8564 m².
• A square kilometer is 100 hectares, and a square mile is 640 acres.
• A 500 m² building plot is 5,381.9552 square feet, or just 0.05 hectares.

A useful picture to keep in mind: an acre is roughly the size of an American football field without the end zones, and a hectare is about two and a half acres.

Reading property listings

• Depending on the country, a listing may give the living area or a gross figure that includes walls, balconies and shared spaces. An exact conversion does not tell you which one you are looking at, so ask.
• To compare prices quoted in different units, bring them all back to the price per square foot or per square meter.
• Traditional land units such as the Middle Eastern dunam are not in the list, and their size varies by country. Convert them to square meters first, then use the tool.

For lengths, use the length converter, and for capacities the volume converter. The calculation runs on Jood's server in an instant and nothing is stored.