This research aims to examine the transition structure of iron oxide, namely from magnetite to hematite, and the impact of calcination temperature on the structural development of hematite nanoparticles. The coprecipitation process was used to extract the magnetite from Indonesian local iron sand. Magnetite was calcined at several temperatures (350, 500, 650, and 800 °C) to produce hematite. Several characterization methods were combined to investigate the structure changes due to the effect of calcination temperature. The synchrotron X-ray diffraction (SRD) and X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) techniques were used to investigate the crystal and local structure, respectively. The Debye-Schrerer equation at the most dominant SRD peak were used to determine the crystallite size. Meanwhile, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) performed to studied the surface morphology. The results of SRD showed that the Fe3O4 and α-Fe2O3 phases are visible in the sample calcined at 350°C, whereas the single-phase α-Fe2O3 was seen at higher temperatures. It was also observed that the crystallinity and crystallite size increased due to the increasing calcination temperature. The crystallite size increased from 9.57 to 29.55, 16.40, 28,48, 29.26, and 29.55 nm for the magnetite, H350, H500, H650, and H800 samples. Meanwhile, XAS fitting data found that higher calcination temperatures increase the interatomic distance but decrease the Debye-Waller factor. It can be concluded that the transformation from Fe3O4 to single-phase α-Fe2O3 was observed at 500oC. A higher calcination temperature of at least 800oC wouldn't change the phase but affect the structure parameters.