Convert Hour to Minute
1 hour = 60 minute (min). For example, 10 hour = 600 minute and 100 hour = 6,000 minute. Type any value below to convert hour to minute both ways — it runs entirely in your browser.
Quick answer: Hour to Minute
1 Hour = 60 Minute (hr → min). To convert hour to minute, multiply by 60. To convert minute to hour, multiply by 0.01666667. The converter at the top does this instantly and both ways; the sections below give the formula, worked examples, a full conversion chart and answers to the most common hour-to-minute questions.
How to convert Hour to Minute
To convert hour to minute, multiply the number of hour by the conversion factor 60, because 1 hr = 60 min. The conversion is linear, so the same factor works for any value — whole numbers, decimals or fractions. For the reverse direction, 1 min = 0.01666667 hr, so you divide by 60 (or multiply by 0.01666667) to turn minute back into hour.
min = hr × 60 ·
hr = min × 0.01666667
- Write down the value you want to convert, in hour.
- Multiply it by 60.
- The result is the same area/length/quantity expressed in minute.
Hour to Minute — worked examples
Each row shows the exact arithmetic so you can follow the conversion step by step. For example, 5 hour is 300 minute because 5 hr × 60 = 300 min.
| Hour | Calculation | Minute |
|---|---|---|
| 1 hr | 1 hr × 60 = 60 min | 60 min |
| 2 hr | 2 hr × 60 = 120 min | 120 min |
| 3 hr | 3 hr × 60 = 180 min | 180 min |
| 5 hr | 5 hr × 60 = 300 min | 300 min |
| 7 hr | 7 hr × 60 = 420 min | 420 min |
| 10 hr | 10 hr × 60 = 600 min | 600 min |
| 12 hr | 12 hr × 60 = 720 min | 720 min |
| 15 hr | 15 hr × 60 = 900 min | 900 min |
| 20 hr | 20 hr × 60 = 1,200 min | 1,200 min |
| 25 hr | 25 hr × 60 = 1,500 min | 1,500 min |
| 50 hr | 50 hr × 60 = 3,000 min | 3,000 min |
| 100 hr | 100 hr × 60 = 6,000 min | 6,000 min |
Common Hour to Minute conversions
These are the hour-to-minute values people look up most often. Every figure is computed from the exact factor, so you can rely on them for quick reference:
- 1 hour = 60 minute
- 2 hour = 120 minute
- 2.5 hour = 150 minute
- 3 hour = 180 minute
- 4 hour = 240 minute
- 5 hour = 300 minute
- 6 hour = 360 minute
- 7 hour = 420 minute
- 8 hour = 480 minute
- 9 hour = 540 minute
- 10 hour = 600 minute
- 12 hour = 720 minute
- 15 hour = 900 minute
- 20 hour = 1,200 minute
- 25 hour = 1,500 minute
- 30 hour = 1,800 minute
- 50 hour = 3,000 minute
- 75 hour = 4,500 minute
- 100 hour = 6,000 minute
- 200 hour = 12,000 minute
- 500 hour = 30,000 minute
- 1000 hour = 60,000 minute
Hour to Minute conversion chart (both directions)
The chart below converts hour to minute and minute to hour side by side, so it works whichever way you need. 1 hour = 60 minute, and 1 minute = 0.01666667 hour.
| Hour → Minute | Minute → Hour |
|---|---|
| 0.25 hr = 15 min | 0.25 min = 0.004166667 hr |
| 0.5 hr = 30 min | 0.5 min = 0.008333333 hr |
| 1 hr = 60 min | 1 min = 0.01666667 hr |
| 2 hr = 120 min | 2 min = 0.03333333 hr |
| 3 hr = 180 min | 3 min = 0.05 hr |
| 4 hr = 240 min | 4 min = 0.06666667 hr |
| 5 hr = 300 min | 5 min = 0.08333333 hr |
| 6 hr = 360 min | 6 min = 0.1 hr |
| 7 hr = 420 min | 7 min = 0.1166667 hr |
| 8 hr = 480 min | 8 min = 0.1333333 hr |
| 9 hr = 540 min | 9 min = 0.15 hr |
| 10 hr = 600 min | 10 min = 0.1666667 hr |
| 12 hr = 720 min | 12 min = 0.2 hr |
| 15 hr = 900 min | 15 min = 0.25 hr |
| 20 hr = 1,200 min | 20 min = 0.3333333 hr |
| 25 hr = 1,500 min | 25 min = 0.4166667 hr |
| 30 hr = 1,800 min | 30 min = 0.5 hr |
| 40 hr = 2,400 min | 40 min = 0.6666667 hr |
| 50 hr = 3,000 min | 50 min = 0.8333333 hr |
| 75 hr = 4,500 min | 75 min = 1.25 hr |
| 100 hr = 6,000 min | 100 min = 1.666667 hr |
| 150 hr = 9,000 min | 150 min = 2.5 hr |
| 200 hr = 12,000 min | 200 min = 3.333333 hr |
| 250 hr = 15,000 min | 250 min = 4.166667 hr |
| 500 hr = 30,000 min | 500 min = 8.333333 hr |
| 1000 hr = 60,000 min | 1000 min = 16.66667 hr |
Hour vs Minute: which is bigger?
A hour is the larger unit: one hour equals 60 minutes. Put another way, you need 60 minutes to make a single hour.
What is a Hour? History, origin and usage
The hour traces to the ancient Egyptians, who from around the second millennium BC divided daytime and night-time each into twelve parts, a custom later combined with Babylonian counting; the English word comes through Old French from the Greek hora. The familiar twenty-four-hour day grew out of those twelve daytime and twelve night-time hours.
The hour is the standard unit for work and wages, scheduling, travel times and broadcasting. It organises the daily rhythm of almost every society and underlies the 12- and 24-hour clock conventions.
Early hours were seasonal or temporal, meaning daytime hours were longer in summer and shorter in winter because daylight was always split into twelve. Only with mechanical clocks did fixed, equal-length hours become the norm.
What is a Minute? History, origin and usage
The minute comes from the Latin pars minuta prima, the first small part, the first sexagesimal division of the hour, a scheme inherited from Babylonian astronomy through Hellenistic astronomers. The base-60 counting that gives the minute its sixty seconds was passed down from the ancient Sumerians.
The minute is the common unit of short everyday durations: scheduling and appointments, cooking and timers, sports periods, and parking or transit intervals. It is small enough to be practical yet long enough to plan around.
The minute is divided into sixty seconds because of the ancient base-60 system, whose appeal was that sixty divides evenly by many numbers. A minute is not always exactly sixty seconds in civil timekeeping: a leap second can occasionally make the final minute of a UTC day last sixty-one seconds.
Convert 1 Hour to other units
It can help to see a hour next to the other units it is commonly compared with. One hour (hr) is equal to:
| 1 Hour equals | Unit |
|---|---|
| 3,600,000,000,000 ns | Nanosecond |
| 3,600,000,000 µs | Microsecond |
| 3,600,000 ms | Millisecond |
| 3,600 s | Second |
| 60 min | Minute |
| 0.04166667 day | Day |
| 0.005952381 wk | Week |
Convert 1 Minute to other units
One minute (min) is equal to:
| 1 Minute equals | Unit |
|---|---|
| 60,000,000,000 ns | Nanosecond |
| 60,000,000 µs | Microsecond |
| 60,000 ms | Millisecond |
| 60 s | Second |
| 0.01666667 hr | Hour |
| 0.0006944444 day | Day |
| 0.00009920635 wk | Week |
Tips for converting Hour to Minute
- To go from hour to minute, multiply by 60; to go back, divide by 60 (or multiply by 0.01666667).
- For a quick mental estimate, remember that 1 hour ≈ 60 minute, so 10 hour ≈ 600 minute.
- The converter above keeps full precision; the tables round for readability, so use the tool for exact figures.
- Both fields update live as you type — change either side to convert in that direction.
How to use this Hour to Minute converter
Type a number into the Hour field and the equivalent in Minute appears instantly — there is no “convert” button to press and nothing is sent to a server, so it works offline once the page has loaded and is safe for any data. You can also type into the Minute field to convert the other way (minute to hour). Use the swap control to flip the two units, and copy the result with a single click. Because the calculation runs in your browser with full floating-point precision, the converter is more exact than the rounded figures shown in the reference chart above — use the chart for quick look-ups and the tool for precise work.
Accuracy and method
Every figure on this page — the formula, the worked examples, the conversion chart and the “convert to other units” tables — is computed from a single verified conversion factor (1 hr = 60 min), never copied from a hand-typed lookup table that could drift. That factor is derived from each unit’s definition in terms of a common base unit, and an automated check re-verifies all of the site’s factors on every update, so the numbers here stay correct over time. This matters for hour-to-minute conversions because a small rounding error in a published table compounds quickly at larger quantities; computing from the exact factor avoids that.
Sources
- BIPM — The International System of Units (SI Brochure) — the defining document for the SI, published by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures. It fixes the base unit that this conversion resolves to, which is why the factor here can be exact rather than approximate.
- NIST — Definitions of the SI base units — the US National Institute of Standards and Technology reference for the SI base units, used here as an independent cross-check on the base-unit definition.
Frequently asked questions
- How many minute are in 1 hour?
- 1 hour = 60 minute (min). To convert any number of hour to minute, multiply by 60.
- How do I convert hour to minute?
- Multiply the number of hour by 60. For example, 10 hour = 10 × 60 = 600 minute, and 25 hour = 1,500 minute.
- How many hour are in 1 minute?
- 1 minute = 0.01666667 hour. So to convert minute back to hour, multiply by 0.01666667.
- What is the formula to convert hour to minute?
- minute = hour × 60. The reverse formula is hour = minute × 0.01666667.
- How much is 100 hour in minute?
- 100 hour = 6,000 minute. (And 1000 hour = 60,000 minute.)
- Which is bigger, a hour or a minute?
- A hour is larger: 1 hour = 60 minute.
- Is this hour to minute converter accurate?
- Yes — every value is computed from the exact 60 min per hr factor (not rounded look-up tables), and the factors are re-verified automatically on every update.
- Can I convert minute to hour too?
- Yes. The converter works both ways — enter a value in either field. 1 minute = 0.01666667 hour.