Square meters (m²)
The square meter (also square metre) is the SI unit of area: the area of a square one meter on each side.
Convert square meters to any area unit
1 square meter = 10.76391042 square feet
Quick facts
- Unit
- Square meter (plural: square meters)
- Symbol
- m²
- Measures
- Area
- System
- Metric
- Definition
- The area of a square with 1 m sides.
- Also written
- square metre, sq m, m2, sqm
1 square meter in other units
| Square feet | 10.76391042 ft² |
| Acres | 0.000247105382 ac |
| Hectares | 0.0001 ha |
| Square kilometers | 0.000001 km² |
| Square miles | 3.8610216 × 10-7 mi² |
| Square centimeters | 10,000 cm² |
| Square yards | 1.195990046 yd² |
| Square inches | 1,550.0031 in² |
What is a square meter?
The square meter (also square metre) is the SI unit of area: the area of a square one meter on each side. It is about 10.76 square feet, and it is the standard unit for the floor area of homes, offices and rooms in most of the world.
Where the square meter sits among area units
The square meter is number 23 of 112 on our scale of area units, ordered from smallest to largest.
What square meters are used for
- Floor area of apartments, houses and offices
- Flooring, tiles, carpet and paint coverage
- Solar panels and roofing
- Fabric and building materials
Square meters in real life
- A king-size bed covers about 3.3 m²
- A parking space is about 12.5 m²
- A tennis court is about 261 m²
- A typical new UK home is about 90 m²; a new US home about 200 m²
One square meter is about 10 large pizzas, or about 16 sheets of A4 paper, or about 53% of a single bed, or about 217 credit cards.
Top square meter conversions
- Square meters to square feet
- Square meters to acres
- Square meters to hectares
- Square meters to square kilometers
- Square meters to square miles
- Square meters to square centimeters
- Square meters to square yards
- Square meters to square inches
- Square meters to square millimeters
- Square meters to pyeong
- Square meters to bighas
- Square meters to mu
Common amounts of square meters
- 0.1 m²
- 0.2 m²
- 0.3 m²
- 0.4 m²
- 0.5 m²
- 0.6 m²
- 0.7 m²
- 0.8 m²
- 0.9 m²
- 1 m²
- 1.5 m²
- 2 m²
- 2.5 m²
- 3 m²
- 3.5 m²
- 4 m²
- 4.5 m²
- 5 m²
- 6 m²
- 7 m²
- 7.5 m²
- 8 m²
- 9 m²
- 10 m²
- 11 m²
- 12 m²
- 13 m²
- 14 m²
- 15 m²
- 16 m²
- 17 m²
- 18 m²
- 19 m²
- 20 m²
- 21 m²
- 22 m²
- 23 m²
- 24 m²
- 25 m²
- 26 m²
- 27 m²
- 28 m²
- 29 m²
- 30 m²
- 31 m²
- 32 m²
- 33 m²
- 34 m²
- 35 m²
- 36 m²
- 37 m²
- 38 m²
- 39 m²
- 40 m²
- 41 m²
- 42 m²
- 43 m²
- 44 m²
- 45 m²
- 46 m²
- 47 m²
- 48 m²
- 49 m²
- 50 m²
- 51 m²
- 52 m²
- 53 m²
- 54 m²
- 55 m²
- 56 m²
- 57 m²
- 58 m²
- 59 m²
- 60 m²
- 61 m²
- 62 m²
- 63 m²
- 64 m²
- 65 m²
- 66 m²
- 67 m²
- 68 m²
- 69 m²
- 70 m²
- 71 m²
- 72 m²
- 73 m²
- 74 m²
- 75 m²
- 76 m²
- 77 m²
- 78 m²
- 79 m²
- 80 m²
- 81 m²
- 82 m²
- 83 m²
- 84 m²
- 85 m²
- 86 m²
- 87 m²
- 88 m²
- 89 m²
- 90 m²
- 91 m²
- 92 m²
- 93 m²
- 94 m²
- 95 m²
- 96 m²
- 97 m²
- 98 m²
- 99 m²
- 100 m²
- 110 m²
- 120 m²
- 130 m²
- 140 m²
- 150 m²
- 160 m²
- 170 m²
- 180 m²
- 190 m²
- 200 m²
- 210 m²
- 220 m²
- 230 m²
- 240 m²
- 250 m²
- 260 m²
- 270 m²
- 280 m²
- 290 m²
- 300 m²
- 310 m²
- 320 m²
- 330 m²
- 340 m²
- 350 m²
- 360 m²
- 370 m²
- 380 m²
- 390 m²
- 400 m²
- 410 m²
- 420 m²
- 430 m²
- 440 m²
- 450 m²
- 460 m²
- 470 m²
- 480 m²
- 490 m²
- 500 m²
- 600 m²
- 700 m²
- 800 m²
- 900 m²
- 1,000 m²
- 1,200 m²
- 1,500 m²
- 2,000 m²
- 2,500 m²
- 3,000 m²
- 4,000 m²
- 5,000 m²
- 10,000 m²
Convert square meters to all 111 other units
Metric
US & imperial
- m² to ft²
- m² to ac
- m² to mi²
- m² to yd²
- m² to in²
- m² to cmil
- m² to roofing square
- m² to section
- m² to rd²
- m² to US survey acre
- m² to rood
- m² to ch²
- m² to mil²
- m² to township
- m² to homestead
- m² to Irish acre
- m² to Scottish acre
- m² to circular inch
- m² to Cheshire acre
East & Southeast Asian
- m² to 평
- m² to 亩
- m² to 坪
- m² to ไร่
- m² to 坪
- m² to งาน
- m² to ตร.ว.
- m² to 顷
- m² to 町
- m² to 甲
- m² to 反
- m² to 分
- m² to 단보
- m² to 정보
- m² to 畝
- m² to 厘
- m² to 合
- m² to 分
- m² to 마지기
- m² to square chi
South Asian
- m² to bigha
- m² to kanal
- m² to marla
- m² to cent
- m² to kattha
- m² to guntha
- m² to biswa
- m² to ground
- m² to ankanam
- m² to chatak
- m² to dhur
- m² to killa
- m² to murabba
European & Middle Eastern
- m² to dunam
- m² to feddan
- m² to arpent
- m² to Morgen
- m² to Joch
- m² to desyatina
- m² to jerib
- m² to qirat
- m² to Tagwerk
- m² to square perch (French)
- m² to square sazhen
- m² to square versta
Latin American
- m² to manzana
- m² to alqueire paulista
- m² to alqueire mineiro
- m² to v²
- m² to cuadra (area)
- m² to fanega (area)
- m² to tarea
- m² to alqueire baiano
- m² to caballeria
- m² to square braca
Ancient
- m² to jugerum
- m² to aroura
- m² to centuria
- m² to actus
- m² to heredium
- m² to saltus
- m² to square Roman foot
- m² to square plethron
Scientific
Everyday comparisons
Convert to square meters
- Square feet to square meters
- Acres to square meters
- Hectares to square meters
- Square kilometers to square meters
- Square miles to square meters
- Square centimeters to square meters
- Square yards to square meters
- Square inches to square meters
- Square millimeters to square meters
- Pyeong to square meters
- Bighas to square meters
- Mu to square meters
Frequently asked questions
What is a square meter?
The square meter (also square metre) is the SI unit of area: the area of a square one meter on each side.
How is the square meter defined?
The area of a square with 1 m sides.
How many square feet are in a square meter?
One square meter equals 10.76391042 square feet.
How many acres are in a square meter?
One square meter equals 0.000247105382 acres.
How many hectares are in a square meter?
One square meter equals 0.0001 hectares.