How big is a hectare?
1 hectare equal 10,000 square metres (0.01 km²) — about 1.4 football fields
or 2.47 acres. But a figure like that is hard to picture: drag the map above to your city or
a place you know to see this hectare drawn at real scale.
To picture it, 1 hectare cover roughly the same as:
- a rugby pitch including its in-goal areas (~1 ha)
- London's Trafalgar Square (~1.2 ha)
- a city block in Barcelona's Eixample (~1.2 ha)
Drag the map to your city and change the number of hectares to compare other areas instantly.
Frequently asked questions
- How big is a hectare?
- 1 hectare are 10,000 square metres (0.01 km²), about 1.4 football fields or 2.47 acres.
- How many football fields fit in 1 hectare?
- About 1.4 standard football pitches. Each pitch is 105 × 68 metres, roughly 7,140 m², i.e. 0.714 hectares — so a hectare is bigger than a football pitch, not the other way round.
- How big is a square of 1 hectare?
- A square of 1 hectare measures 100 metres on each side. Drawn as a circle, which is what the Hectareometer does, it would have a radius of 56 metres.
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