Convert Acres to Hectares
Convert area units instantly: square millimeters to square kilometers, hectares, square feet, square inches and acres.
Result
This page opens the area converter preset to acres → hectares. One acre is 43,560 square feet, which by the exact foot definition equals 4,046.8564224 m², or 0.40468564224 hectares. So hectares = acres × 0.404686 — an acre is a bit less than half a hectare.
Land anchors: a 5-acre smallholding is about 2.02 ha, 40 acres is 16.19 ha, a 160-acre quarter-section — the historic US homestead grant — is 64.75 ha, and 1,000 acres of farmland is 404.7 ha. An American football field including end zones covers about 1.32 acres, or 0.53 ha.
Farmers, land buyers, foresters and anyone comparing US, UK or Australian land listings with metric documents need this constantly. Type acres and read hectares live; the table below covers common plot and farm sizes.