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Acres to Hectares

Turn international acres into hectares.

Your inputs

ac

Hectares

0.404686

1 ac = 0.404686.

Entered
1 ac

Formula

An international acre is 43,560 square feet, which is 0.40468564224 hectares:

hectares = acres × 0.40468564224

A hectare is 10,000 square meters. The square-meter pages convert a measured area, not a land parcel named in acres.

Assumptions

  • The value can be zero and cannot be negative.
  • The result is shown with up to six decimal places.

Worked example

1 acre equals 0.404686 hectares.

Input definitions

Acres
International acres based on the international foot.

Limitations

Some older surveys used a slightly different acre. This page uses the international acre.

Questions

Is an acre about 0.4 hectares?

Yes. The exact factor is 0.40468564224 hectares.

How many square meters is a hectare?

Exactly 10,000. This page stops at hectares.

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