TL;DR
- 40 guntha to acre is exactly 1 acre. One guntha is 101.1714 square metres, which is 1,089 square feet exactly.
- One acre is 4,046.86 square metres and 43,560 square feet, so 40 × 1,089 = 43,560 and the arithmetic closes without rounding.
- The catch: a Maharashtra 7/12 does not print guntha at all. It prints hectare, are and square metres, and it prints them in Marathi.
- One hectare is 98.8422 guntha and 2.4711 acre. One are is 100 square metres, which is 0.9884 guntha, so are and guntha are close but not equal.
- That near-match is where errors creep in. Treating one are as one guntha understates a five-acre parcel by roughly a quarter of a guntha per are.
- Bigha is not a Maharashtra revenue unit. It is a market word, it differs between regions, and it appears nowhere on the record of rights.
40 guntha to acre is one of the few land conversions in India that is exact rather than approximate, and the number is 1 acre precisely. The difficulty is not the conversion. It is that the document you are converting from does not use guntha, and nobody tells buyers that before they start.
Terms used on this page
Guntha is the Maharashtra land unit of 40 to the acre.
Satbara is the 7/12 extract: the village record of rights for one parcel.
Khatedar is the person recorded as holding the land.
Hissa is a sub-division of a survey number.
Gat number is the group survey number given to a holding after consolidation.
Ferfar is a mutation entry, which is the record of a change of holder in the village register.
What is 40 guntha in acre, exactly?
40 guntha is one acre, and the record of rights maintained under section 148 of the Maharashtra Land Revenue Code, 1966 is where the area you are converting comes from. One guntha is 101.1714 square metres. One acre is 4,046.86 square metres. Forty guntha at 1,089 square feet each gives 43,560 square feet, which is an acre.
Because the guntha is defined as a fortieth of an acre rather than as a round metric quantity, every guntha figure converts to acres cleanly and to square metres untidily. That is the right way round for a buyer: the acre number is the one you will negotiate in, and it is the one that stays exact.
Why does the 7/12 not show guntha at all?
Because the record of rights under section 148 of the Maharashtra Land Revenue Code, 1966 states area in metric units, and on the live portal on 23 September 2026 it does so in Marathi. What a satbara prints is hectare, are and square metres. Guntha is a market unit, not a revenue unit, and it never appears there.
A Maharashtra 7/12 prints area in hectare, are and square metres, in Marathi, and never in guntha. So the conversion a buyer actually needs runs the other way from every table online. You are not converting guntha into acres. You are converting a hectare-are-square-metre figure, read in Devanagari, into the guntha the broker quoted you and the acres you will price in.
This is also where the most expensive mistake in small-parcel deals happens, and it comes from the near-match between the are and the guntha.
What is the full conversion table?
Every figure below is derived from the exact definitions rather than rounded from another table, with one acre taken as 4,046.8564 square metres. Where a value does not terminate it is given to four decimal places, and the square-foot column for guntha is exact.
| From | Acre | Guntha | Square metres | Square feet |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 guntha | 0.025 | 1 | 101.1714 | 1,089 |
| 12 guntha | 0.300 | 12 | 1,214.06 | 13,068 |
| 20 guntha | 0.500 | 20 | 2,023.43 | 21,780 |
| 40 guntha | 1.000 | 40 | 4,046.86 | 43,560 |
| 1 are | 0.0247 | 0.9884 | 100 | 1,076.39 |
| 1 hectare | 2.4711 | 98.8422 | 10,000 | 107,639.10 |
| 1 acre | 1 | 40 | 4,046.86 | 43,560 |
How do you convert from the figure on your own 7/12?
Read it as three numbers rather than one. The area stated under section 148 of the Maharashtra Land Revenue Code, 1966 reads as hectare, then are, then square metres, in that order and in that sequence of columns, and on the live portal on 23 September 2026 every label was in Marathi.
- Convert everything to square metres first. Multiply the hectare figure by 10,000, the are figure by 100, then add the square-metre figure to both. Now you have one number instead of three.
- Divide by 101.1714 for guntha. That is the exact guntha in square metres, so use it rather than the rounded 101 that circulates in the market.
- Divide by 4,046.86 for acres. Or divide the guntha figure by 40, which gives the same answer and is easier to check by eye.
- Sanity-check against the hissa. If the parcel is a sub-division, the area on the 7/12 is the sub-division’s area rather than the whole survey number’s, and those get confused constantly.
- Compare with what you were quoted. A gap of more than a guntha or so between the record and the broker’s figure is a question to ask before you pay, not after.
The record of rights states area in metric units and the market quotes in guntha. Almost every disputed area I have seen in twenty years started as a conversion nobody checked.
Girish Chhalwani, Founder & CEO, THE EDGE Developments
What about bigha, and why do the numbers never agree?
Because bigha is not a Maharashtra revenue unit at all, and it appears nowhere in the record of rights kept under section 148 of the Maharashtra Land Revenue Code, 1966. It is a market word with regional meanings, and a bigha in one district is not a bigha in another.
Treat any bigha figure as a conversation, not a measurement. If a seller quotes in bigha, ask for the area as it appears on the 7/12 and convert from that. If he cannot produce it, the area is not the only thing you should be worried about.
The same caution applies in reverse to the guntha itself outside Maharashtra and the neighbouring belt. Within the state it is exact at a fortieth of an acre. That is a property of this state’s practice, not a national standard.
Frequently asked questions
How many guntha make one acre?
Forty. The guntha is defined as a fortieth of an acre, so the conversion is exact rather than approximate, and 40 guntha is 1 acre with no rounding.
What is 1 guntha in square feet?
1,089 square feet exactly. Forty of them give 43,560 square feet, which is one acre.
What is 1 guntha in square metres?
101.1714 square metres. The rounded figure of 101 that circulates in the market understates a large parcel noticeably, so use the exact value when the area matters.
How many guntha are in one hectare?
98.8422 guntha, which is 2.4711 acre. A hectare is very slightly less than a hundred guntha, and treating it as exactly a hundred is a common source of error.
Is an are the same as a guntha?
No, and this is the trap. One are is 100 square metres and one guntha is 101.1714, so an are is 0.9884 guntha. They are close enough to be confused and far enough apart to matter on a large holding.
Does the 7/12 extract show area in guntha?
No. A Maharashtra 7/12 states area in hectare, are and square metres, and the portal displays it in Marathi. Guntha is a market unit and does not appear on the record.
Converting an area off a 7/12 before you pay? THE EDGE Developments reconciles the recorded area against the quoted area on every parcel in the Karjat, Khopoli and Khalapur belt. Send us the extract.
Related reading
- Guntha, acre, hectare and bigha explained in full
- How to read a 7/12 extract
- Digital Satbara: the digitally signed 7/12
- NA plots near Mumbai: legal checks and price bands
- 7/12 and 8A difference
- Check ferfar status online
- Speak to THE EDGE about a parcel
Citations and sources
- MahaBhulekh v2.0, Maharashtra Bhumi Abhilekh — the Marathi-only notice and the record types, read off the live portal on 23 September 2026.
