Seconds to Minutes Converter

How to convert seconds to minutes

1 second = 0.0166666667 minutes. To convert seconds to minutes, divide by 60 (or multiply by 0.0166666667). The second is the SI base unit of time, defined by the cesium-133 transition. A minute is 60 seconds.

Worked examples

• 90 seconds = 1.5 min (90 ÷ 60)
• 500 seconds = 8.33333 min (500 ÷ 60)
• 3,600 seconds = 60 min (3,600 ÷ 60)

Where this conversion comes up

Seconds are used for stopwatches, video timing and physics; minutes for cooking, workouts, meetings and travel times. Useful for video lengths, cooking timers and running splits. 60 seconds make a minute: 500 s is 8 min 20 s, and 3,600 s is exactly one hour.

Quick estimate

Divide by 60; 1,000 s is roughly 16.7 min.

Common mistakes

• Multiplying instead of dividing. A minute is larger than a second, so the number of minutes must come out smaller: 90 seconds = 1.5 min.
• Rounding too early. Keep the full factor until the last step; rounding 0.0167 to 0.017 first puts large values noticeably off.

Going the other way? Use the minutes to seconds converter. Related time converters: minutes to hours, hours to minutes, seconds to hours, hours to seconds, hours to days, days to hours.