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Acres to hectares

One acre is 0.4046856422 hectares.

1 acre = 0.4046856422 hectares · 1 hectare = 2.471053815 acres

This factor is exact, not rounded. It comes from the definition of the units rather than from a measurement, so the only limit on precision is how many digits are worth showing.

Acres to hectares table

Common acre values converted to hectares
Acres (ac)Hectares (ha)
10.4046856422
20.8093712845
31.214056927
52.023428211
104.046856422
208.093712845
2510.11714106
5020.23428211
10040.46856422
500202.3428211
1,000404.6856422

How the conversion works

Multiply by 0.4046856422 to go from acres to hectares, or by 2.471053815 to go back the other way. Both figures are exact rather than rounded: they follow from the definitions of the units, not from anybody measuring something.

The exactness is more interesting than it sounds. Since the International Yard and Pound Agreement of 1959, the inch has been defined as exactly 25.4 millimetres and the pound as exactly 0.45359237 kilograms. Every other imperial length and weight follows from those two by whole-number ratios, which means the imperial system is now defined in terms of the metric one rather than alongside it.

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