Bigha to Acre Converter: All-State Table (2026)

How to read this table

This is the reverse of our acre to bigha converter. You have a figure in bigha (बीघा), usually from a seller, a broker or an older record, and you want acres, because the acre is the fixed unit that purchase ceilings, loan valuations and most comparison prices are written in. One acre is 4,840 square yards or 43,560 square feet, about 0.4047 hectare, in every state.

The bigha is the variable. The four sizes used here come from our live unit guides, which also say that no official conversion table could be located for any state. Each column heading names the states our guides attach to that size. The acre figures are rounded to four decimals; each bigha size is a clean fraction of an acre (0.15625, 0.2, 0.4 and 0.625 acre respectively), so only the 6,806.25 sq ft column loses a digit in rounding.

Default on this page: the 27,225 sq ft bigha (0.625 acre), which is Rajasthan pucca and the central and eastern UP figure.

Bigha to acre table (0.25 to 100 bigha)

Biswa to acre (fractions of a bigha)

Twenty biswa (बिस्वा) make one bigha in every state our guides cover, so each biswa is 0.05 bigha. When a seller says "7 bigha 12 biswa", read 12 biswa from this table and add it to the 7-bigha row above. See what is a biswa for how the unit is written in records.

The formula

Acres = bigha × (square feet in one local bigha) ÷ 43,560.

Equivalent one-step multipliers: × 0.625 for a 27,225 sq ft bigha, × 0.4 for 17,424 sq ft, × 0.2 for 8,712 sq ft, × 0.15625 for 6,806.25 sq ft. If you have square yards instead, use bigha × sq yd per bigha ÷ 4,840; a 3,025 sq yd bigha gives 3,025 ÷ 4,840 = 0.625 acre, the same answer.

To continue to hectares, multiply the acre figure by 0.404686. To go to square feet or gaj directly, use our bigha to square feet converter and bigha to gaj converter.

Three worked examples

Example 1: "12 bigha" offered near Jodhpur, Rajasthan. If the seller means pucca bigha (27,225 sq ft), 12 × 0.625 = 7.5 acres, about 3.035 ha. If he means kachha bigha (17,424 sq ft), 12 × 0.4 = 4.8 acres, about 1.943 ha. The jamabandi (जमाबंदी) will print hectares; whichever of 3.035 or 1.943 it shows tells you which bigha the village uses. Our Rajasthan guide could not confirm a district map of pucca and kachha use, so the record is the only reliable arbiter.

Example 2: "40 bigha" in Hapur district, western UP. Western UP bigha is about 6,806.25 sq ft, so 40 × 0.15625 = 6.25 acres, about 2.529 ha. A buyer who assumed the 27,225 sq ft bigha would expect 25 acres and be wrong by a factor of four. Hapur falls in the belt where our UP guide's western figure applies, but confirm against the khatauni hectare figure.

Example 3: "25 bigha" in Solan district, Himachal Pradesh. Himachal bigha is 8,712 sq ft, so 25 × 0.2 = 5 acres, about 2.023 ha. The same land in kanal would be 40 kanal (5 × 8). For the Himachal purchase permission rules that apply to a non-agriculturist, read Section 118 explained; the area figure that matters there is the one in the official record.

State comparison: acres per bigha

• Rajasthan: 0.625 acre per pucca bigha, 0.4 acre per kachha bigha. Bigha and biswa in Rajasthan.
• Uttar Pradesh: 0.625 acre in central and eastern districts, about 0.15625 acre in the western cluster; an unconfirmed intermediate figure of about 9,075 sq ft (0.2083 acre) is noted on our UP guide. Bigha in Uttar Pradesh.
• Himachal Pradesh: exactly 0.2 acre per bigha; 5 bigha = 1 acre. Bigha and biswa in Himachal.
• Uttarakhand: about 0.15625 acre per hill bigha (about 3.15 nali), 0.4 acre per plains bigha. Nali, mutthi and bigha in Uttarakhand.
• Punjab and Haryana: bigha is not the record unit and our guides found conflicting figures (about 8,712 sq ft and a "pukhta" 27,225 sq ft). Convert from kanal: 1 kanal = 0.125 acre. Kanal to acre.
• Bihar, MP, Gujarat: no value printed; see the callout and dhur, kattha and dismil for Bihar's own sub-units.

How to use this with your document

1. Write down the bigha figure exactly as quoted, including biswa. Convert biswa to decimal (÷ 20).
2. Pick the column for the state and, in UP and Uttarakhand, the district cluster. If you are unsure which cluster applies, compute both and see which matches the record.
3. Open the record of rights and read the hectare or acre figure. Multiply hectares by 2.47105 to get acres. Our guide to checking land records online lists each state portal.
4. If the acre figure from the record matches one of your two computations, you now know the local bigha. If it matches neither, the village uses a bigha not on this page, or the quote includes land outside the khasra numbers being sold.
5. Put the official-unit area in the agreement to sell and the deed, and state the bigha equivalent only as a bracketed convenience figure. See reading land area in a sale deed.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources

• Farmland India: Land measurement units in India (unit definitions used on this page), read 24 October 2026
• Farmland India: Bigha to square yard, acre and hectare master table, read 24 October 2026
• Farmland India: Bigha and biswa in Rajasthan, read 24 October 2026
• Farmland India: Bigha in Uttar Pradesh, read 24 October 2026
• Farmland India: Bigha and biswa in Himachal Pradesh, read 24 October 2026