Square Calculator

Enter any single measurement of a square — side, area, perimeter or diagonal — and get the rest.

Square

Area49
Side length
7
Perimeter
28
Diagonal
9.8994949366

Formulas

area = s²

perimeter = 4s

diagonal = s√2 ≈ 1.41421 × s

side from area = √A

Worked example

A square room of 50 m²

  1. s = √50 ≈ 7.071 m
  2. Perimeter: 4 × 7.071 ≈ 28.28 m
  3. Diagonal: 7.071 × √2 = 10 m

Each wall is about 7.07 m long.

A handy fact

The diagonal of a square is always √2 times its side, so a square’s diagonal squared is exactly twice its area. That makes it easy to check: a 10 m diagonal means a 50 m² square.