Minutes to hours converter, decimal hours and hours and minutes together.

To convert minutes to hours, divide the minutes by 60. So 2 hours is 120 minutes, 1.5 hours is 90 minutes and 0.75 hours is 45 minutes. A decimal hour answer such as 1.75 and an hours and minutes answer such as 1 h 45 min mean the same time. This page gives you both, so you can fill in a time sheet or read a clock.

How to use the converter

1. Type the amount in the Minutes (min) box. A decimal such as 2.5 or a fraction such as 3/4 works.
2. The big result shows Hours (h). Use Decimals in the side column to fix the number of places.
3. The cards under the result show the same time in other forms. Hours and minutes is the one to read aloud.
4. Type in the second box, or press the swap button, to go the other way.
5. Click a row in Common values to load it. Copy result, Copy link, Copy table and Print chart keep the answer. Start again resets the box.

Decimal hours and clock hours are different

This is where most mistakes happen. A decimal hour is a fraction of 60 minutes, not a count of minutes after the point. Take 100 minutes. That is 1.6667 hours, which is 1 hour and 40 minutes. It is not 1.4 hours, because 1.4 hours would be 1 hour and 24 minutes. If a form asks for decimal hours, use the long number. If it asks for hours and minutes, use the card called Hours and minutes.

The reverse trap is the same. 0.5 hours is 30 minutes, not 50. And 1.30 on a clock face means 1 hour 30 minutes, which is 1.5 in decimal hours.

Minutes to hours for a time sheet

Time sheets that ask for decimal hours need every shift turned into hours. Work out the minutes first, then divide by 60. A shift from 8:30 to 16:15 is 7 hours 45 minutes, which is 465 minutes, or 7.75 hours. Five such days make 38.75 hours. At 18 an hour that is 18 × 38.75 = 697.50. Your pay rules or your employer may round the minutes differently, so check how they count them. This page does the maths only.

To find the minutes between two clock times, use the hours calculator. To add or subtract times, use the time calculator.

Rounding minutes to the nearest quarter hour

Some time sheets round each entry to a quarter of an hour, which is 15 minutes or 0.25 hours. The steps are the same every time: divide the minutes by 15, round to the nearest whole number, and multiply by 0.25. For 52 minutes, 52 ÷ 15 is 3.47, which rounds to 3, and 3 × 0.25 = 0.75 hours. For 38 minutes, 38 ÷ 15 is 2.53, which rounds to 3 again, so 0.75 hours. The exact figures are 0.8667 and 0.6333. Whether rounding is allowed, and which way it goes, is up to your employer and your local rules. Use this page to see the exact figure first.

Minutes to hours, common values

Worked examples

• A 90 minute film. 90 ÷ 60 = 1.5 hours, or 1 hour 30 minutes.
• A 400 minute drive. 400 ÷ 60 = 6.667 hours, which is 6 hours 40 minutes.
• A 1,440 minute day. 1,440 ÷ 60 = 24 hours, one full day.
• 20 minutes of exercise. 20 ÷ 60 = 0.3333 hours. The decimal never ends, so round it to the places your form allows.
• Back the other way. 2.75 hours × 60 = 165 minutes. Press the swap button and type 2.75.

Where the numbers come from

A minute is 60 seconds, an hour is 3,600 seconds and a day is 86,400 seconds. NIST SP 811, Appendix B.9 prints all three as exact factors. Checked 27 Oct 2026. The converter keeps them as exact fractions and rounds only the last digit shown.

Mistakes to avoid

The first is typing hours and minutes as one decimal, such as 1.45 for 1 hour 45 minutes. The tool reads that as 1.45 hours, which is 87 minutes. The second is dividing by 100 instead of 60. The third is rounding too early: 20 minutes is 0.3333 hours, and rounding to 0.3 loses 2 minutes.

Related pages: Hours to minutes, Seconds to minutes and the time calculator.

Decimal hours rounded to five significant figures, for a time sheet. The last column is the clock form. An hour is exactly 60 minutes.