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Geometry Calculator

Areas, volumes, triangles and applied geometry, each one showing the formula it used.

Geometry is one subject but a great many separate formulas, and the useful question is almost never "what is the area" in the abstract — it is how much turf, how much paint, how much concrete, or whether the beam is deep enough. The pages below are grouped by what you are actually holding: a flat shape, a triangle, a solid, or a real object that happens to have a shape.

Areas of flat shapes

Triangles and coordinates

Volumes of solids

Geometry on the job

Which one do I need?

If the shape is flat and you want the surface, start with the areas. If you have three sides or an angle and need the rest, the triangle pages solve it — Heron's formula when you know all three sides, Pythagoras when there is a right angle, trigonometry otherwise. If it holds something, look under volumes; note that a tank lying on its side is a genuinely different calculation from one standing up. The last group is geometry already applied to a job, where the answer comes out in litres, tiles or metres of skirting.