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Minute (min)

Also called: min, minutes

Definition: The minute is a unit of time equal to exactly 60 seconds, one 60th of an hour. It is accepted for use with the SI, and a day has 1,440 of them.

Updated November 4, 2026 · How we check facts

The minute is 60 seconds, exactly (6.0 × 10¹ s in NIST's tables), and 60 minutes make an hour. A UTC minute can have 61 seconds when a leap second is added.

Formula

min = s ÷ 60 = h × 60

Example

A day has 24 × 60 = 1,440 minutes and a week 10,080. 2.5 hours is 2.5 × 60 = 150 minutes. Convert with minutes to hours or minutes to seconds.

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Time Conversions: Seconds, Hours and Weeks in a Year

Related terms

Hour (h)The hour is a unit of time equal to exactly 60 minutes or 3,600 seconds, and one 24th of a day. It is accepted for use with the SI but is not an SI unit itself.Second (s)The second is the SI base unit of time, defined from the caesium-133 transition frequency of 9,192,631,770 Hz; there are exactly 60 seconds in a minute and 86,400 in a day.Gregorian CalendarThe Gregorian calendar is the civil calendar in worldwide use. Its 400-year cycle has 146,097 days, an average year of 365.2425 days, kept by the leap-year rule.Leap SecondA leap second is a one-second adjustment added to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) so it stays within 0.9 s of Earth-rotation time, giving a day of 86,401 seconds.Leap YearA leap year has 366 days instead of 365. In the Gregorian calendar a year is a leap year if divisible by 4, except centurial years that are not divisible by 400.Sidereal DayA sidereal day is one rotation of the Earth relative to the stars: about 86,164.09 seconds, or 23 h 56 min 4.09 s, roughly 3 min 56 s shorter than a 24-hour solar day.Tropical YearThe tropical year is the time between successive spring equinoxes, about 365.2422 days (about 31,556,930 seconds). It is the natural year the Gregorian calendar approximates.

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