How Many Minutes Are in a Month?
A month has 40,320 to 44,640 minutes, because months are 28–31 days long. A 30-day month (April, June, September, November) has 43,200 minutes; a 31-day month has 44,640 minutes; and February has 40,320 minutes (41,760 in a leap year). The average Gregorian month is 43,829.1 minutes. Last updated 2026-06-19.
Minutes in a specific month
Pick a month and year — it counts the exact days (including leap-year February) and runs entirely in your browser.
June 2026 has 30 days = 43,200 minutes (720 hours, 2,592,000 seconds).
Minutes in a month by length
| Month length | Minutes |
|---|---|
| 28-day month (February, common year) | 40,320 minutes |
| 29-day month (February, leap year) | 41,760 minutes |
| 30-day month (Apr, Jun, Sep, Nov) | 43,200 minutes |
| 31-day month (Jan, Mar, May, Jul, Aug, Oct, Dec) | 44,640 minutes |
| Average Gregorian month (30.4369 days) | 43,829.1 minutes |
How to calculate minutes in a month
Every day has 24 × 60 = 1,440 minutes. So the minutes in a month is simply the number of days in that month multiplied by 1,440:
minutes = days in month × 1,440
A 31-day month is 31 × 1,440 = 44,640 minutes; a 30-day month is 30 × 1,440 = 43,200 minutes; February’s 28 days give 28 × 1,440 = 40,320 minutes, and a leap February’s 29 days give 29 × 1,440 = 41,760 minutes.
Minutes in each month
Days, minutes, hours and seconds in each calendar month (common year — see the leap-year note for February):
| Month | Days | Minutes | Hours | Seconds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 44,640 | 744 | 2,678,400 |
| February * | 28 | 40,320 | 672 | 2,419,200 |
| March | 31 | 44,640 | 744 | 2,678,400 |
| April | 30 | 43,200 | 720 | 2,592,000 |
| May | 31 | 44,640 | 744 | 2,678,400 |
| June | 30 | 43,200 | 720 | 2,592,000 |
| July | 31 | 44,640 | 744 | 2,678,400 |
| August | 31 | 44,640 | 744 | 2,678,400 |
| September | 30 | 43,200 | 720 | 2,592,000 |
| October | 31 | 44,640 | 744 | 2,678,400 |
| November | 30 | 43,200 | 720 | 2,592,000 |
| December | 31 | 44,640 | 744 | 2,678,400 |
- * February has 29 days in a leap year = 41,760 minutes (696 hours, 2,505,600 seconds).
Minutes, hours and seconds in a day, week, month and year
| Period | Days | Minutes | Hours | Seconds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day | 1 | 1,440 | 24 | 86,400 |
| Week | 7 | 10,080 | 168 | 604,800 |
| Month (30 days) | 30 | 43,200 | 720 | 2,592,000 |
| Month (average) | 30.4369 | 43,829.1 | 730.485 | 2,629,746 |
| Year (365 days) | 365 | 525,600 | 8,760 | 31,536,000 |
| Year (366 days, leap) | 366 | 527,040 | 8,784 | 31,622,400 |
A common year has 525,600 minutes — the number made famous by the song “Seasons of Love” — and a leap year has 527,040.
Why a month is not a fixed number of minutes
Unlike a day, an hour or a minute, a calendar month has no single fixed length: it runs from 28 to 31 days, and February gains a day every leap year (years divisible by 4, except century years not divisible by 400 — so 2000 was a leap year but 1900 was not). That is why our time unit converter deliberately leaves “month” out of its fixed-factor unit list. When you need an exact answer, count the days in that specific month — which is exactly what the calculator above does.
Frequently asked questions
- How many minutes are in a month?
- It depends on the month. A 30-day month has 43,200 minutes; a 31-day month has 44,640 minutes; February has 40,320 minutes (41,760 in a leap year). The average Gregorian month is 43,829 minutes (30.4375 days).
- How many minutes are in February?
- February has 40,320 minutes in a common year (28 days × 1,440) and 41,760 minutes in a leap year (29 days × 1,440).
- How many minutes are in a 30-day month?
- A 30-day month (April, June, September or November) has 30 × 1,440 = 43,200 minutes.
- How do you calculate the number of minutes in a month?
- Multiply the number of days in that month by 1,440 (the minutes in a day: 24 hours × 60). For example, a 31-day month = 31 × 1,440 = 44,640 minutes.
- How many minutes are in the average month?
- The average Gregorian calendar month is 365.2425 ÷ 12 = 30.436875 days, which is 43,829.1 minutes — about 43,829. This average is useful for billing or rate calculations that span many months.