Kanal to Marla Converter — 1 Kanal = 20 Marla
The kanal-to-marla relationship is the one fixed point in Pakistani land units: a kanal is twenty marlas everywhere, under every convention. What changes is the kanal’s absolute size — 5,445 square feet where the marla runs standard, 4,500 where Punjab’s urban convention applies. This tool converts kanals through marlas to square feet under both, and maps the wider ladder rural documents climb.
Is a kanal always exactly 20 marlas?
Yes — the ratio is definitional and survives every regional variation. The trap sits one level down: since marla size varies by convention, "1 kanal" means 5,445 sq ft in standard counting and 4,500 in Punjab urban schemes. The ratio is fixed; the feet are not.
How many kanals make an acre and a killa?
Eight kanals to the acre (43,560 sq ft, standard chain), and the killa — the unit Punjab’s rural fards actually use — is for practical purposes an acre under a different name, also eight kanals. Murabbas bundle 25 killas; the full rural ladder runs sarsai → marla → kanal → killa → murabba.
Why do kanal-scale plots dominate certain markets?
One- and two-kanal plots define the premium house segment in Lahore, Islamabad, and the established DHAs — large enough for the full-size house with lawn that the segment expects, scarce enough to hold value. Kanal pricing per marla typically runs above the same society’s 5-marla rate; land buys scale premiums in Pakistan, not discounts.
Kanal to Marla Converter
The full ladder, assembled once
From the bottom: 9 sarsai make a marla, 20 marlas a kanal, 8 kanals a killa (acre), 25 killas a murabba. The ladder is internally fixed; only the marla’s square-footage anchor varies by convention, and every rung inherits that choice. A reader who internalises the ladder reads any Pakistani land document — urban allotment, rural fard, inheritance decree — in one pass, converting mixed-unit quantities to a single comparable figure as the patwari does.
Kanal-segment realities for buyers
The kanal market behaves differently from the 5-marla one: inventory is thinner, holding periods longer, buyers fewer and better-advised, and documentation issues costlier in absolute terms. Due diligence scales accordingly — demarcation surveys, utility-line easements crossing large plots, and the road-widening history of the block all earn professional verification at this ticket size. The conversion arithmetic this tool handles is the easy tenth of the homework; it just comes first.
Where the kanal meets the calculator hub
Kanal transactions cascade into this site’s other tools: the ARV-based property tax of a kanal residence, rental-income slabs where it lets, the withholding schedule on its purchase at filer or non-filer rates, and the loan arithmetic where financing builds the house the plot was bought for. Land units begin the file; the tax and finance numbers fill it — the related tools below pick up where the conversion leaves off.
More questions answered
Rural transactions speak killas and murabbas for scale, kanals and marlas for remainders — a holding might pass as "3 killa 5 kanal". Conversion through this tool’s chain (killa = 8 kanals = 160 marlas) turns any mixed quote into one comparable figure before negotiation.
The allotment’s stated dimensions govern; corner cuts, road widening, and irregular boundaries make actual parcels deviate from nominal categories at this scale just as at 5 marlas — and at kanal prices, each deviating marla is a serious sum. Demarcation before major transactions is standard practice in the segment.
Through the marla and sarsai ladder: a kanal splitting three ways yields 6 marla 6 sarsai each (180 sarsai ÷ 3), which is exactly how patwari computations express it. Fractional shares in the fard are this arithmetic recorded — converting them to square feet via this tool makes abstract shares concrete for family settlements.
The levies scale with assessed value rather than the unit, but kanal-category properties sit in higher ARV bands and luxury-tax conversations that recent finance acts have aimed at large residences. The unit doesn’t change the tax law; the size it denotes attracts more of it.
Standard: 505.86 m² or 605 square yards; Punjab convention: 418.06 m² or 500 square yards exactly — the round 500 is why the Punjab kanal appeals to scheme planners. Architects’ drawings in metric reconcile against these figures.