With the revenue kanal of Punjab and Haryana land records the conversion is exact: 8 kanal make one acre, so one kanal is 0.125 acre. That follows from the official chain of 9 sarsahi to the marla, 20 marla to the kanal and 8 kanal to the acre. If a plot is measured with the 4,500 sq ft kanal used in Lahore housing schemes, one kanal is about 0.1033 acre and it takes 9.68 kanal to make an acre.
Formula
Kanal by region
The kanal is not the same everywhere. Values below are documented regional definitions with their sources; your land records or local revenue office decide which one applies. More about the kanal.
| Region | 1 kanal in acres | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue standard (Punjab, Haryana, Pakistan) | 0.125 | = 20 marla = 605 sq yd = 5,445 sq ft = 1/8 acre · Revenue Department, Government of Haryana (HALRIS Jamabandi): Units of Measurements |
| Lahore housing schemes (DHA) | 0.103306 | = 20 marla of 225 sq ft = 500 sq yd = 4,500 sq ft · DHA Lahore Construction & Development Byelaws 2026, Definitions (Kanal, Marla) |
Kanal to Acres conversion table (Revenue standard (Punjab, Haryana, Pakistan))
| Kanal | Acres |
|---|---|
| 0.25 kanal | 0.03125 ac |
| 0.5 kanal | 0.0625 ac |
| 1 kanal | 0.125 ac |
| 2 kanal | 0.25 ac |
| 3 kanal | 0.375 ac |
| 4 kanal | 0.5 ac |
| 5 kanal | 0.625 ac |
| 6 kanal | 0.75 ac |
| 7 kanal | 0.875 ac |
| 8 kanal | 1 ac |
| 9 kanal | 1.125 ac |
| 10 kanal | 1.25 ac |
| 15 kanal | 1.875 ac |
| 20 kanal | 2.5 ac |
| 25 kanal | 3.125 ac |
| 30 kanal | 3.75 ac |
| 40 kanal | 5 ac |
| 50 kanal | 6.25 ac |
| 60 kanal | 7.5 ac |
| 70 kanal | 8.75 ac |
| 75 kanal | 9.375 ac |
| 80 kanal | 10 ac |
| 90 kanal | 11.25 ac |
| 100 kanal | 12.5 ac |
| 250 kanal | 31.25 ac |
| 500 kanal | 62.5 ac |
| 1,000 kanal | 125 ac |
Where you’ll use it
Farmers in Punjab think in killa (acres) and kanal, so this conversion appears in land sales, partition of family holdings, crop insurance and loan paperwork. A holding written as 5 killa 3 kanal is 5.375 acres. Developers converting farmland into housing schemes go the other way, from acres into kanal plots, and that is where the smaller urban kanal can make a scheme look larger than the land it sits on.
Tip: When land records show killa, kanal and marla together, convert each part separately: killa are acres, each kanal is 1/8 acre and each marla is 1/160 acre. Then add them; rounding the total once avoids small errors.