Convert square meters to square feet

One square meter equals 10.76391 square feet. To convert any number of square meters to square feet, multiply by 10.76391042.

The converter above works in both directions and updates as you type. Below you will find the formula, a worked example and a reference table of common values.

Area conversions carry a trap that catches people who are perfectly comfortable with length: the factor is squared. There are 3.28 feet in a metre but 10.76 square feet in a square metre, and using the linear factor is the most common error in property arithmetic. Beyond that, land is measured in whatever the local convention prescribes — acres, hectares, and across South Asia bigha, katha and gaj — so the same plot is routinely described in two units that need reconciling.

square meters to square feet formula

To go the other way, use square meter = square foot ÷ 10.76391042.

About these units

The square metre is the standard unit of floor area worldwide, and the basis of both the hectare and the price-per-unit-area figures used in property.

The square foot remains the standard for property area in the US, India and much of the Middle East. There are 10.764 square feet in a square metre — not 3.28, a mistake that comes from squaring the linear factor only once.

Square Meter is also written square metre, square metres, sq m, sqm, m2 and m^2. Square Foot is also written square feet, sq ft, sqft, ft2 and ft^2.

Sources

1. National Bureau of Standards, "Refinement of Values for the Yard and the Pound", Federal Register, 1 July 1959 — the international yard as exactly 0.9144 m and the avoirdupois pound as exactly 0.45359237 kg.