Convert square yards to square meters

One square yard equals 0.836127 square meters. To convert any number of square yards to square meters, multiply by 0.83612736.

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 yards to square meters formula

To go the other way, use square yard = square meter ÷ 0.83612736.

About these units

The square yard, or gaj in South Asia, is nine square feet. It is still the customary unit for residential plots across much of northern India and Pakistan.

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.

Square Yard is also written square yards, sq yd and yd2. Square Meter is also written square metre, square metres, sq m, sqm, m2 and m^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.