Hectare to Bigha in Uttar Pradesh: The Complete 2026 Conversion Guide

Last updated: August 08, 2026

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Quick Answer Using the 27,225 sq ft Pucca Bigha reference, 1 hectare is approximately 3.95 bigha. The full working is 107,639 sq ft ÷ 27,225 sq ft = 3.95. Bigha is a traditional land unit, and its size can vary from one part of Uttar Pradesh to another, so this figure should be checked against the measurement actually used in your locality before it is relied on for a property transaction.

A hectare is a fixed, metric unit. It is exactly 10,000 square metres, or about 107,639 square feet, and it means the same thing in Bijnor as it does in Ballia. A bigha is not like that. It is a traditional unit that grew out of local revenue practice, and the area it stands for still changes depending on where you are standing.

That single difference explains almost every argument that happens over land measurement in Uttar Pradesh. Your khatauni records the plot in hectares. Your neighbour, your broker and your family talk about it in bigha and biswa. Both are describing the same field, but only one of them is anchored to a fixed number.

This guide gives you the conversion first, then the mathematics behind it, then the part most conversion pages skip: why a person two districts away may quote a completely different bigha figure for the same hectare, and how to find out which measurement applies to your land before you sign anything.

Everything here uses the standard Pucca Bigha reference of 27,225 square feet unless a different figure is clearly labelled.

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What Is a Bigha in Uttar Pradesh?

A bigha is a traditional Indian unit of land area. It has been in use for centuries across northern and eastern India, it is still the unit most rural land conversations happen in, and it has never had a single fixed size across the country. One bigha in Uttar Pradesh is not the same area as one bigha in West Bengal, Assam or Uttarakhand.

Within Uttar Pradesh, the most widely used reference is the Pucca Bigha:

1 Pucca Bigha = 27,225 square feet = 3,025 square yards (gaj) = 2,529.29 square metres

If you want a picture of it, a pucca bigha is a square of roughly 165 feet by 165 feet. That is where 3,025 square yards comes from, since 55 gaj × 55 gaj = 3,025 gaj.

Biswa: the sub-unit that holds steady

A bigha is divided into biswa, and a biswa into biswansi:

1 Pucca Bigha = 20 Biswa 1 Biswa = 1,361.25 square feet = 151.25 square yards = 126.46 square metres 1 Biswa = 20 Biswansi, so 1 Biswansi = 68.06 square feet

Show ImageOne pucca bigha, drawn as 20 biswa.

This detail is worth holding on to. Across most of Uttar Pradesh, the biswa keeps roughly the same value of 1,361.25 square feet. What changes from place to place is how many biswa people count to a bigha. That is the real source of the confusion, and it is covered in detail further down.

Pucca Bigha and Kaccha Bigha

"Pucca" here means the full or standard measure, and "kaccha" means a smaller local measure. A Kaccha Bigha is not a fraction that everyone agrees on. It is commonly reported in Uttar Pradesh as about half a pucca bigha, which works out to 13,612.5 square feet or 10 biswa. Several standard conversion tables instead list the UP kaccha bigha as one third of a pucca bigha, which is 9,075 square feet or 6.67 biswa.

Both figures are in circulation. Neither should be treated as a statewide legal standard. If someone quotes you land in "kaccha bigha", the number on its own is incomplete until you know which local measure they mean.

Why this matters

When a person says "I own 5 bigha", they have not yet told you the area of their land. Depending on the local measure, that same sentence can describe anything from about 0.34 hectare to about 1.26 hectare. The sentence needs one more piece of information before it becomes a measurement: which bigha.

Unit	Approximate area	Relationship
1 Hectare	107,639 sq ft	10,000 sq m, 100 are
1 Pucca Bigha*	27,225 sq ft	20 Biswa, 0.625 acre
1 Biswa*	1,361.25 sq ft	1/20 Pucca Bigha
1 Biswansi*	68.06 sq ft	1/20 Biswa
1 Kaccha Bigha*	approx. 13,612 sq ft (some tables use 9,075 sq ft)	Local reference value

* Reference values used for calculation. They are conventional measures, not universal statutory definitions for every locality in Uttar Pradesh.

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Why Uttar Pradesh Inherited So Many Different Bigha Values

Traditional units were not designed in an office. They came out of how land was actually measured in the field, and the tool did the defining.

Village land was measured with a rod or chain, known locally as a lattha or jarib. The length of that rod was a local convention, and it was not identical in every pargana. A longer rod produced a larger bigha; a shorter rod produced a smaller one. The words "pucca" and "kaccha" originally distinguished the fuller standard measure from the shorter local one. Once revenue records, tenancy customs and sale practices settled around whichever rod a region used, the local value stuck and got passed down.

Layered on top of that is the way land was administered before Independence. Different tracts of the present state came under different settlement and tenancy systems, each with its own recording habits. Those habits outlived the systems that created them.

Then metrication arrived. Official land records in Uttar Pradesh moved to metric units, so the khatauni now records area in hectares, and larger revenue and valuation documents work in hectares, ares and square metres. Everyday conversation never followed. Farmers, brokers and families kept speaking in bigha and biswa.

The result is the situation on the ground today. The record is metric and standardised. The conversation is traditional and local. Every hectare to bigha question is really a translation between those two systems, and translation is exactly where meaning gets lost.

Why this matters today: when you search this question online, different pages give different answers, and most of them are not wrong. They are quoting different local bigha values without saying so. A number without its definition attached is not an answer.

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Hectare to Bigha: The Formula and Worked Examples

Step 1: Understand the hectare

1 hectare = 10,000 square metres 1 hectare = 107,639 square feet (approximately) 1 hectare = 11,959.9 square yards = 2.4711 acres

This part never changes. A hectare is a metric unit with a fixed definition.

Step 2: Define the bigha being used

For the main calculation:

1 Pucca Bigha = 27,225 square feet

Step 3: Apply the formula

Bigha = Hectares × 107,639 ÷ 27,225

Or, simplified:

Bigha = Hectares × 3.9537

Worked out for one hectare:

1 hectare = 107,639 sq ft 1 Pucca Bigha = 27,225 sq ft 107,639 ÷ 27,225 = 3.9537 1 hectare ≈ 3.95 bigha under this reference.

Show ImageThe full conversion in three steps. The divisor is the only variable.

Worked examples

Hectares	Calculation	Approx. Bigha
0.25	0.25 × 3.9537	0.99
0.5	0.5 × 3.9537	1.98
1	1 × 3.9537	3.95
2	2 × 3.9537	7.91
3	3 × 3.9537	11.86
5	5 × 3.9537	19.77
10	10 × 3.9537	39.54
20	20 × 3.9537	79.07
50	50 × 3.9537	197.68
100	100 × 3.9537	395.37

A useful shortcut for rough mental work: 1 hectare is just under 4 bigha, so a 2.5 hectare holding is a little under 10 bigha. Use the full multiplier whenever the number is going into a document, a price negotiation or a division of family land.

Converting bigha back to hectare

Hectares = Bigha × 27,225 ÷ 107,639

Or, simplified:

Hectares = Bigha × 0.2529

Bigha	Approx. Hectares	Square feet
1	0.2529	27,225
2	0.5059	54,450
3	0.7588	81,675
5	1.2646	1,36,125
10	2.5293	2,72,250
20	5.0586	5,44,500
50	12.6464	13,61,250
100	25.2929	27,22,500

Notice that one pucca bigha is very close to a quarter hectare. That is a handy sanity check when someone quotes you a figure that sounds far off.

Converting a mixed measurement like 3 Bigha 12 Biswa

Land is rarely quoted in whole bigha. The reliable method is to convert everything into biswa first, because biswa is the smaller and steadier unit.

Step 1: Convert to total biswa 3 bigha × 20 biswa = 60 biswa 60 + 12 = 72 biswa

Step 2: Convert biswa to square feet 72 × 1,361.25 = 98,010 square feet

Step 3: Convert square feet to hectares 98,010 ÷ 107,639 = 0.9105 hectare

In decimal terms this is 3.6 bigha, or about 9,105 square metres.

The same method works in reverse. Multiply the hectare figure by 79.07 to get total biswa, then divide by the number of biswa your locality counts to a bigha.

Converting a price quoted in different units

Price comparison is where the conversion earns its keep, because sellers, government valuation lists and property listings rarely use the same unit.

Land quoted at ?40 lakh per bigha (pucca): Per square foot: 40,00,000 ÷ 27,225 = ?146.92 Per hectare: 40,00,000 × 3.9537 = ?1.58 crore

Circle rate notified at ?1 crore per hectare: Per bigha: 1,00,00,000 × 0.2529 = ?25.29 lakh Per square foot: 1,00,00,000 ÷ 107,639 = ?92.90

Two plots can only be compared once both prices sit in the same unit. Converting the price is often more revealing than converting the area.

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Why Bigha Size Changes Even Within One State

This is the section most conversion pages leave out, and it is the one that decides whether the number above is useful to you.

The bigha is a traditional unit, so the same word does not guarantee the same physical area. In Uttar Pradesh the variation follows a specific and quite logical pattern. As noted earlier, the biswa tends to hold its value at about 1,361.25 square feet. What differs by region is how many biswa make one bigha. Some areas count 20, which gives the full pucca bigha. Others count 10, or roughly 6.67, or 5.

That gives a clean way to see the whole picture:

Show ImageEvery bar is the same hectare. Only the fencing changes.

Local bigha convention	Biswa per bigha	Approx. sq ft	Approx. sq m	1 hectare works out to
Pucca bigha	20	27,225	2,529	3.95 bigha
Half measure	10	13,612.5	1,265	7.91 bigha
One-third measure	6.67	9,075	843	11.86 bigha
Small local measure	5	6,806.25	632	15.81 bigha

Read that table carefully and one thing stands out. One hectare is about 79 biswa in every row. The hectare to biswa relationship is stable. It is only the bigha column that moves, because the bigha is a bundle of biswa and the size of the bundle is a local decision.

So the single most useful question you can ask locally is not "how many bigha is my land". It is:

"Yahan ek bigha mein kitne biswa hote hain?" How many biswa does one bigha contain here?

Once you have that number, every other conversion follows from it and you are no longer relying on a generic figure from the internet.

A few cautions apply to this section. These are conventional local practices, reported and widely used, not statutory definitions issued for named districts. A figure that is normal in one tehsil may be unheard of in the next one. Treat any specific local value, including the ones in the table above, as something to confirm with a lekhpal, an amin or an experienced local before it goes anywhere near a transaction. And when a broker quotes "bigha", assume nothing about which measure is meant until you have asked.

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Verifying Your Land Record Before You Rely on This Conversion

Show ImageThe verification sequence, in order.

A calculation tells you what a number becomes. It cannot tell you whether the number was right to begin with. For anything involving money, inheritance or a signature, work from the record.

Step 1: Collect your land details

You will usually need the district (janpad), tehsil, village (gram), and at least one of the following: khasra or gata number, khata number, or the name of the recorded holder.

A khasra or gata number identifies a specific plot of land in the revenue records. A khatauni is the record of rights, listing the holder and all the plots recorded in their name.

Step 2: Check the official record on UP Bhulekh

Uttar Pradesh land records are published by the Board of Revenue on the official UP Bhulekh portal at https://upbhulekh.gov.in/. It gives access to khasra and gata details, the real-time khatauni, and the digital village map through Bhu-Naksha.

Use the official portal rather than third-party copies. For a bank, court or registry process, a certified copy issued through the tehsil or a Common Service Centre is generally expected instead of a screenshot.

Step 3: Read the recorded area

The khatauni records area in hectares, usually to four decimal places. Larger records may use hectares, ares and square metres together, where 1 hectare = 100 are and 1 are = 100 square metres.

So a khatauni entry of 0.4050 hectare is your starting figure. Nothing informal overrides it.

Step 4: Identify the local bigha definition

Convert the recorded hectare figure into biswa first by multiplying by 79.07. Then group the biswa into bigha using the local count. For 0.4050 hectare, that is about 32 biswa, which is 1.6 bigha where 20 biswa make a bigha, and about 3.2 bigha where 10 biswa make a bigha.

Step 5: Compare the numbers before deciding anyone is wrong

If the record says 1 hectare and the seller says 4 bigha, nothing is wrong at all. That is exactly what 1 hectare is under the pucca measure. If the seller says 8 bigha, they may be using a half measure rather than inflating the plot. Identify the definition before you challenge the figure.

Step 6: Resolve real discrepancies before the transaction

If the sale deed, the khatauni, the seller's claim and the physical plot genuinely do not reconcile, stop and verify. On-ground measurement and demarcation in Uttar Pradesh is carried out by the lekhpal or amin under the tehsildar's office, and a formal paimaish is the appropriate step when boundaries or areas are in dispute. Consolidation history, digitisation errors and old versus revised records are all common causes of a mismatch.

Source of difference	What actually happens	What to do
Different bigha definition	Pucca and kaccha figures compared as if identical	Confirm biswa per bigha
Rounding at each step	Small drift compounds across several conversions	Convert once, round at the end
Old versus current record	Pre-consolidation or pre-digitisation entries differ	Compare current khatauni with the deed
Area boundaries	Paths, bunds and drains counted differently	Ask what the quoted area includes
Estimated versus measured	Paced or eyeballed area quoted as fact	Ask for a surveyed figure
Deed and record mismatch	Registered area differs from khatauni entry	Raise correction with the tehsil before purchase

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Bigha, Home Loans, and RERA: Where This Conversion Actually Matters

Buying land

"This plot is 2 bigha" is a description, not a measurement. Before any payment, match it to the recorded khasra area and confirm which bigha the seller has in mind. On a 2 bigha purchase, the gap between a pucca and a half measure is not a rounding difference. It is half the land.

Land valuation and circle rates

Valuation is the most common place this conversion is genuinely needed. In Uttar Pradesh, circle rates for agricultural land are commonly notified on a per hectare basis, while non-agricultural land is usually notified per square metre. Rates are fixed at district level by the District Magistrate and published on the state stamps and registration portal at https://igrsup.gov.in/.

So the government values the land per hectare, and the local market discusses it per bigha. To know whether a quoted price is reasonable, you have to move both figures into the same unit. The price conversion worked earlier does exactly that.

Home loans and land loans

Lenders work from documentation, not conversation. Title documents, the recorded area, the property's classification and an independent valuation all feed into what is sanctioned, along with the borrower's own eligibility. A verbal bigha figure carries no weight in that process, and a mismatch between the deed and the land record is a common reason for delay. If the numbers do not agree, sort them out before applying rather than during underwriting.

RERA and project disclosures

Keep expectations here modest. Regulatory disclosures and project documents use prescribed area measurements, and marketing material is not the disclosure. The practical habit is simple: compare what a brochure or a sales conversation claims against the area stated in the project documentation and the title papers, and treat the documented figure as the real one.

This article provides general land-measurement information and should not be treated as legal, revenue, valuation, or financial advice. Verify your specific land details with the official record and, where the stakes justify it, with a qualified professional.

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Common Mistakes When Converting Hectare to Bigha in UP

Show ImageThe eight errors, with fixes.

Mistake 1: Treating 3.95 as a universal UP figure. Why it happens: it is the first number every search result shows. How to avoid it: remember that 3.95 is the answer for a 27,225 sq ft pucca bigha and nothing else. Ask which bigha applies locally.

Mistake 2: Mixing pucca and kaccha figures. Why it happens: both are simply called "bigha" in conversation. How to avoid it: confirm the biswa count before comparing any two quotes.

Mistake 3: Ignoring local practice entirely. Why it happens: an online calculator feels authoritative. How to avoid it: a calculator does not know your tehsil. Ask locally, then calculate.

Mistake 4: Accepting a broker's verbal measurement. Why it happens: the figure is delivered confidently and the plot looks about right. How to avoid it: check the khasra area on UP Bhulekh. It takes minutes.

Mistake 5: Confusing bigha and biswa. Why it happens: "20 biswa" and "20 bigha" sound similar in a fast conversation. How to avoid it: write the figure down as bigha and biswa separately, then convert to total biswa.

Mistake 6: Rounding too early. Why it happens: 3.95 is easier to type than 3.9537. How to avoid it: keep the full multiplier until the final step. On 50 hectares, the rounded and unrounded routes already disagree in the second decimal place, and the gap widens on larger holdings.

Mistake 7: Comparing prices in different units. Why it happens: one seller quotes per bigha, another per square foot, the circle rate is per hectare. How to avoid it: convert every price to a single unit before judging which plot is cheaper.

Mistake 8: Trusting an informal description over the record. Why it happens: family and local knowledge feel more reliable than paperwork. How to avoid it: for a transaction, the recorded area is what counts, whatever the local memory says.

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Quick Reference: Hectare to Bigha and Related Conversions

Show ImageShareable version of the table below.

Hectare to bigha (27,225 sq ft Pucca Bigha)

Hectares	Approx. Bigha	Approx. Biswa
0.1	0.40	7.91
0.25	0.99	19.77
0.5	1.98	39.54
0.75	2.97	59.31
1	3.95	79.07
1.5	5.93	118.61
2	7.91	158.15
2.5	9.88	197.68
3	11.86	237.22
4	15.81	316.29
5	19.77	395.37
10	39.54	790.74
20	79.07	1,581.47
50	197.68	3,953.69
100	395.37	7,907.37

Common land units in Uttar Pradesh

Unit	Square feet	Square yards (gaj)	Square metres	Relationship
1 Hectare	1,07,639	11,959.9	10,000	100 are, 2.4711 acres
1 Acre	43,560	4,840	4,046.86	0.4047 hectare, 1.6 pucca bigha
1 Pucca Bigha	27,225	3,025	2,529.29	20 biswa, 0.625 acre
1 Are	1,076.39	119.6	100	1/100 hectare
1 Biswa	1,361.25	151.25	126.46	1/20 pucca bigha
1 Biswansi	68.06	7.56	6.32	1/20 biswa
1 Gaj	9	1	0.8361	1 square yard

These figures use the 27,225 sq ft Pucca Bigha reference. The local bigha measurement should be verified before the result is used for a land transaction. Small differences in the last decimal place across sources are rounding artefacts. Fifty hectares, for example, is 197.68 bigha using the full multiplier and 197.69 using the shortened 3.9537, and neither is a different answer.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many bigha make one hectare in Uttar Pradesh?

Approximately 3.95 bigha, calculated as 107,639 square feet divided by 27,225 square feet. That result depends entirely on the pucca bigha definition. In areas that count fewer biswa to a bigha, the same hectare can work out to roughly 7.91, 11.86 or even 15.81 bigha. The stable figure underneath all of them is about 79 biswa per hectare.

Is bigha the same size everywhere in Uttar Pradesh?

No. Bigha is a traditional unit whose value settled around local measuring practice rather than a single statewide standard. The biswa is comparatively steady at about 1,361.25 square feet, but the number of biswa counted to a bigha differs by region. Before using any bigha figure for a transaction, confirm the local convention and check the recorded area in the khatauni.

What is the difference between pucca bigha and kaccha bigha?

A pucca bigha is the full standard measure of 27,225 square feet, or 20 biswa. A kaccha bigha is a smaller local measure, commonly reported in Uttar Pradesh as about half that at 13,612.5 square feet, though several conversion tables list it as one third at 9,075 square feet. They are not interchangeable, and a quote in "bigha" is incomplete until you know which measure is meant.

How do I check my land's hectare figure online in UP?

Use the official UP Bhulekh portal at https://upbhulekh.gov.in/. Select your district, tehsil and village, then search using the khasra or gata number, the khata number, or the recorded holder's name. The khatauni displays the area in hectares, usually to four decimal places. For bank, court or registry purposes, obtain a certified copy through the tehsil or a Common Service Centre rather than relying on a screenshot.

Can I use the same hectare to bigha formula for Bihar or West Bengal?

No. Traditional units differ across states and sometimes within them. The pucca bigha of 27,225 square feet used in Uttar Pradesh is also used in parts of Bihar, but West Bengal, Assam, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat all work with different bigha values. Always use the local value for the state and locality where the land is situated.

Does the bigha figure I am quoted affect my home loan amount?

Not directly. Lenders assess the title documents, the recorded area, the property classification and an independent valuation, together with your own eligibility. A verbal bigha measurement is not evidence of area. Where the deed, the khatauni and the seller's claim disagree, expect additional verification and possible delay, so it is better to reconcile the figures before applying.

How many bigha are in 2 hectares in UP?

2 × 3.9537 = approximately 7.91 bigha under the 27,225 sq ft pucca reference. In square feet that is 2,15,278, and in biswa it is about 158. Under a half-size local measure, the same 2 hectares would be described as roughly 15.81 bigha.

How many bigha are in 5 hectares in UP?

5 × 3.9537 = approximately 19.77 bigha under the pucca reference, which is about 395 biswa or 5,38,196 square feet. For a holding this size, confirm the local bigha convention before quoting or comparing a price, because the difference between conventions runs into several acres.

How many bigha are in 10 hectares in UP?

10 × 3.9537 = approximately 39.54 bigha under the pucca reference, equal to about 791 biswa, 24.71 acres or 10,76,391 square feet. At this scale, always work from the khatauni figure rather than an estimate.

How many square feet are in 1 hectare?

Approximately 107,639 square feet. A hectare is defined as 10,000 square metres, and one square metre is about 10.7639 square feet. In other units, a hectare is 11,959.9 square yards, 2.4711 acres, or 100 are. Unlike bigha, this figure is fixed and does not change by state or locality.

How many biswa are in 1 bigha in UP?

Twenty biswa make one pucca bigha, and one biswa is 1,361.25 square feet. That 20-biswa relationship is the standard reference, but it is not universal within Uttar Pradesh: some localities count 10 biswa, about 6.67, or 5 to a bigha. Since the biswa itself stays close to 1,361.25 square feet, asking how many biswa are in a local bigha resolves most conversion confusion.

How do I convert bigha to hectare in UP?

Multiply by 0.2529, which comes from 27,225 ÷ 107,639. So 1 bigha is about 0.2529 hectare, 5 bigha about 1.26 hectare and 10 bigha about 2.53 hectare. For a mixed figure like 4 bigha 8 biswa, convert to total biswa first (88), multiply by 1,361.25 to get square feet, then divide by 107,639.

How many bigha are in 1 acre in UP?

Exactly 1.6 pucca bigha, since 43,560 ÷ 27,225 = 1.6. Conversely, one pucca bigha is 0.625 acre, or five eighths of an acre. One acre is 0.4047 hectare, so the acre sits neatly between the two systems and is often the easiest unit for cross-checking a suspicious figure.

My khatauni shows 0.4050 hectare. How many bigha is that?

0.4050 × 3.9537 = about 1.60 bigha under the pucca reference, which is 32 biswa or roughly 43,594 square feet. That is very close to one acre. If someone locally describes the same plot as about 3.2 bigha, they are almost certainly counting 10 biswa to a bigha rather than 20.

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Final Recommendation

If you only need a working number, use 1 hectare ≈ 3.95 bigha under the 27,225 square foot pucca bigha reference, and remember that one pucca bigha is close to a quarter hectare.

If you are buying or selling, the figure to start from is the area recorded in the khatauni, not the one in the conversation. Check it on UP Bhulekh, note that it is stated in hectares, and convert from there.

If a broker or neighbour gives you a different bigha number, do not assume anyone is wrong or dishonest. Ask how many biswa make a bigha locally. In most cases that one question explains the entire gap, because the hectare to biswa relationship stays steady at about 79 biswa per hectare while the bigha itself moves.

And if the number is going into a transaction, let the documents lead. Prioritise the recorded area, the title documents and the applicable local measure, and arrange a formal measurement through the tehsil where boundaries or areas are genuinely in doubt. A conversion is a translation tool. It is not evidence of what you own.