Acres ↔ hectares converter
Land is sold and talked about in acres, but schemes, maps and most paperwork use hectares. Enter either value below — the other updates instantly.
Uses 1 hectare = 2.47105 acres (1 acre = 0.404686 hectares). Legal and scheme measurements come from your mapped field boundaries, so treat this as a working estimate.
Handy rules of thumb
- A hectare is 10,000 square metres — a square about 100 m by 100 m.
- An acre is 4,840 square yards — roughly the size of a football pitch without the run-offs.
- Two and a half acres is very close to one hectare.