Hectare to Acre Converter — 1 Hectare = 2.471 Acres

1 Hectare = 2.4711 Acres · 1 Acre = 0.4047 Hectares

The hectare and the acre are the two units in which serious land — farms, estates, government allocations — is measured worldwide. The hectare is metric: exactly 10,000 square meters, the area of a 100 m × 100 m square. The acre is imperial: exactly 43,560 square feet. One hectare equals about 2.47 acres, and one acre is about 0.405 hectares.

In India and Nepal both appear constantly: official digitized records and agricultural statistics use hectares, while older deeds, real-estate listings, and everyday speech lean on acres (and regional units like the bigha). A useful mental shortcut is "hectares × 2.5, minus a little" — 4 hectares ≈ 10 acres is accurate to within about 1%.

The formula

Acres = Hectares × 2.47105

Hectares = Acres × 0.404686

Exactly: 1 hectare = 10,000 m² = 107,639.1 sq ft; 1 acre = 4,046.86 m²

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Conversion tables

Hectare to acre
Hectare	Acres	Square meters
0.1	0.2471	1,000
0.25	0.6178	2,500
0.5	1.236	5,000
1	2.471	10,000
2	4.942	20,000
3	7.413	30,000
4	9.884	40,000
5	12.36	50,000
10	24.71	100,000
20	49.42	200,000
50	123.6	500,000
100	247.1	1,000,000

Acre to hectare
Acre	Hectares	Square meters
0.5	0.2023	2,023
1	0.4047	4,047
2	0.8094	8,094
3	1.214	12,141
4	1.619	16,187
5	2.023	20,234
10	4.047	40,469
20	8.094	80,937
50	20.23	202,343
100	40.47	404,686

Worked examples

Example 1 — a 3.2 hectare farm record

An agricultural record of 3.2 hectares converts to 3.2 × 2.47105 = 7.91 acres. Listed for sale "per acre", the farm should be advertised as just under 8 acres.

Example 2 — buying 12 acres, registering in hectares

A 12-acre purchase registers as 12 × 0.404686 = 4.856 hectares in a metric land registry. Rounding to 4.86 ha keeps the record accurate to a few square meters.

Good to know

The hectare is not an SI unit itself but is accepted for use with the SI, and it is the standard unit of agricultural statistics almost everywhere — including India's and Nepal's agriculture ministries. The "are" (100 m², from which "hect-are" derives) still appears in some older European and Nepali records; our converter supports it directly.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many acres are in 1 hectare?+

1 hectare equals about 2.4711 acres. For quick mental math, 2.5 acres per hectare is accurate to about 1%.

How many hectares is 1 acre?+

1 acre is about 0.4047 hectares — a little over two-fifths of a hectare.

Which countries use hectares vs acres for land?+

Most of the world's land registries are metric and use hectares. Acres remain standard in the US and common in the UK, India, Pakistan, and other Commonwealth-heritage markets, especially in real estate listings.

How big is a hectare visually?+

A hectare is a 100 m × 100 m square — very close to 1.4 FIFA-recommended football pitches. The 3D visualizer on our home page can draw any hectare figure to scale.

Hectare to Acre Conversion