Acres to Hectares Converter

Whether you need to convert the surface of your plot or are studying geography, our acres to hectares converter will be helpful!

Keep reading to learn:

• What is an acre;
• What is a hectare;
• How to convert from acres to hectares; and
• Some neat examples.

An acre is a surface measurement unit of the US customary system. It corresponds to $1/640$ square miles. The traditional acre is defined as the area with sides equal to one chain and one furlong, two traditional — and today obsolete — length measurement units.

Given that:

• A chain is $66$ feet long; and
• A furlong is $660$ feet long;

We can think of the acre as

The acre is both an old measurement unit and a unit used in agriculture: these features give it a colorful history and origin!

Many countries used the acre in the past specifically to measure the size of arable land and of properties. Its definition was often dependent on the work done in a certain time. In particular, the traditional acre corresponds to the surface that a single man can work in a day with the help of a single team of oxen.

Nowadays, thanks to technology, a single man can work way more than an acre a day!

A hectare, symbol $\text{ha}$, is a unit similar to the acre in scope but different when it comes to definition.

First of all, the hectare originates within the metric system: it is nothing but a square with sides equal to $100\ \text{m}$. This gives us the conversion:

Hectares are commonly used across the world to measure fields, land, and plots. Do you know that an official rugby field has a surface of almost exactly one hectare? Luckily, we don't measure surfaces in rugby fields!

The conversion between acres and hectares is a useful one, for sure. To convert acres to hectares, use the following formula:

As you can see, the acre is slightly smaller than half a hectare. If you are more familiar with fractions, you can use an alternative approximate formula:

To know how many hectares are to an acre or to any value you need, use our acres to hectares converter. You only have to insert the measurement in the appropriate field, and we will do all the math!

Do you want to know how many hectares is the Yellowstone National Park? Here we are. The park has a staggering surface of $2,219,791\ \text{acres}$. To put this number in perspective, four US States are smaller than the park: Rhode Island, Delaware, Connecticut, and New Jersey. To calculate how many hectares correspond to that number, apply the conversion:

This incredible amount of land is worth protecting: a speckle of Nature we need to preserve.

We covered almost all of the possible conversions between measurement units for the area! Here is a comprehensive list:

• Area conversion;
• Square feet converter;
• Square feet to acres converter;
• Acres to square feet converter;
• Square inch to square foot converter;
• Square meter converter;
• Square centimeters to square millimeters converter;
• Square meters to square feet converter;
• Square miles to square km converter;
• Cent to square meter converter;
• Gaj to square yard converter;
• Katha to square feet converter;
• Square yard converter; and
• Hectares to acres converter.