Guntha

A guntha is 121 square yards and forty of them make an acre. This page converts it, and corrects a figure that conversion sites keep publishing wrong: a hectare is 98.842 gunthas, not 247.

Updated 11 August 2026. The definition is quoted from a government gazetteer. The conversions are exact arithmetic on it.

How many guntha

Bigha size used below (sq yd)

Bigha has no fixed legal size. Around 2,500 sq yd is the figure commonly used around Dholera. Change it to whatever your deed actually says.

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A guntha is 121 square yards, and forty make an acre

The definition comes from the old Bombay survey system that both Gujarat and Maharashtra inherited. A guntha is the square formed on one chain of eleven yards, so eleven times eleven is 121 square yards, and forty gunthas make one acre. From that, one guntha is 1,089 square feet and 101.17141056 square metres exactly.

The correction. Several conversion sites publish that one hectare equals 247 gunthas. It does not. One hectare is 2.4710538 acres, and one acre is 40 gunthas, so one hectare is 98.842 gunthas. The 247 figure looks like 2.471 with the decimal point dropped and the multiplication by 40 skipped. The arithmetic is short enough to check by hand: 2.4710538 multiplied by 40.

Two honest caveats. The definition above is quoted from a Government of Maharashtra gazetteer, not a Gujarat one, because no Gujarat government document in this project's source set uses the word guntha at all. And the certificate on the Maharashtra gazetteer host does not validate in a browser, so the page was read over an unverified connection on 11 August 2026.

One guntha, exactly

Derived from the 121 square yard definition and the exact international yard.

One guntha. Guntha column derived from the Government of Maharashtra gazetteer definition of 121 sq yd. Derived from the international yard of 0.9144 m exactly (NIST, effective 1 July 1959).
1 guntha equals	Amount
sq ft	1,089
sq yd (vaar)	121
sq m	101.17141056
guntha	1
acre	0.025
hectare	0.01011714
bigha, at 2,500 sq yd	0.0484

Gunthas at the sizes land is sold in

Land sizes in guntha. Guntha column derived from the Government of Maharashtra gazetteer definition of 121 sq yd.
guntha	sq ft	sq yd	sq m	acre	guntha
1	1,089	121	101.2	0.025	1
2	2,178	242	202.3	0.05	2
5	5,445	605	505.9	0.125	5
10	10,890	1,210	1,011.7	0.25	10
20	21,780	2,420	2,023.4	0.5	20
40	43,560	4,840	4,046.9	1	40
80	87,120	9,680	8,093.7	2	80

The 40 guntha row is exactly one acre and the 80 guntha row is exactly two. That is the quickest check that a guntha figure in a document has been converted correctly.

Where this comes from

A guntha is 121 square yards and 40 gunthas make one acre CONFIRMED Government of Maharashtra, Maharashtra State Gazetteers, Poona District, Part V Chapter 15, Department of Land Records.
Quoted: the standard of area is the English acre, its sub-division the guntha, 121 square yards, being the square formed on one chain or 11 yards, 40 gunthas making one acre. Read in full context on 11 August 2026. The certificate chain on that host does not validate.
The exact yard CONFIRMED NIST Office of Weights and Measures, SI units of length. Federal Register notice of 30 June 1959.
1 yard = 0.9144 metres exactly, effective 1 July 1959.
1 guntha = 1,089 sq ft = 101.17141056 sq m, and 1 hectare = 98.842 guntha DERIVED
121 sq yd multiplied by 9 and by 0.83612736. The hectare figure is 10,000 divided by 101.17141056.
No Gujarat government document in this project's set uses the word guntha CONFIRMED Annual Statement of Rates, ASR 2011 Final, Ahmedabad district, Superintendent of Stamps, Gandhinagar. In force under the Revenue Department resolution dated 18 April 2011.
Zero Latin-script occurrences across all 1,431 pages of the Ahmedabad district agricultural rate book.

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