Disclaimer

A bigha is not a standardised unit. No figure on this site is a legal measurement, and none should be relied on for a property transaction without confirming it against your district land revenue record.

Why this page exists

Most disclaimers are boilerplate. This one is not, because the subject genuinely warrants it. An acre is fixed at 43,560 square feet worldwide. A bigha is a customary unit whose size is set locally, and it ranges across the states covered here from about 6,806 to 27,225 square feet — a fourfold spread for the same word.

That means a conversion published without a state attached is not merely imprecise. It can be wrong by more than half, and a land area understated by half changes what a plot is worth.

The status of our figures

• They are commonly-cited reference values derived from each state's traditional definition, not official standards.
• No Indian authority publishes a binding bigha-to-acre table, because the bigha is customary rather than statutory.
• Several states run more than one convention at once. Where they do, we list all of them, but we cannot tell you which applies to your parcel.
• Figures vary within states as well as between them — by district, and in some places by village.

This is not professional advice

Nothing here is legal, financial, surveying or real-estate advice, and using this site creates no professional relationship. For registration, mutation, mortgage, inheritance or litigation, the governing area is the one recorded by your district land revenue office or measured by a licensed surveyor.

What to do instead

Use this site to understand a listing and to work out which question to ask next. Then confirm the area against the record before any money moves — the guides section explains how, state by state.