Free Time Converter Online
Convert between seconds, minutes, hours, days, and more. Free, fast, and works entirely in your browser with no sign-up required.
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Time Converter
Convert between 28 time units β common, scientific, calendar, historical & computing. Includes real-time table, visual comparison, date calculator, favorites and history.
Common Presets
Time Converter
1 Hours
= 60 Minutes
1 h = 60 min
= 1 hour
Favorites
3600
Seconds
60
Minutes
1
Hours
0.041667
Days
0.000114
Years (365.25 days)
Conversion Table
Nanoseconds
Microseconds
Milliseconds
Seconds
Minutes
Hours
Days
Weeks
Fortnights
Months (30 days)
Years (365.25 days)
Decades
Centuries
Millennia
Picoseconds
Femtoseconds
Attoseconds
Planck Time
Jiffy (physics)
Shake
Sidereal Day
Sidereal Year
Tropical Year
Score (20 yrs)
Olympiad (4 yrs)
Clock Cycle (1 GHz)
Clock Cycle (3 GHz)
Microframe (USB)
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Time Converter?
The Time Converter is a free online tool that converts between seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years.
Is the Time Converter free?
Yes, it is completely free with no registration required. All conversions happen client-side in your browser.
What time units are supported?
The Time Converter supports milliseconds, seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years for comprehensive time unit conversions.
Is my data safe with this tool?
Absolutely. The Time Converter processes everything client-side in your browser. No data is uploaded to or stored on any server. Your content remains private on your device at all times.
Does the Time Converter work on mobile devices?
Yes, the Time Converter is fully responsive and works on smartphones and tablets. You can use it on any device with a modern web browser -- no app download required.
Do I need to create an account to use this tool?
No account or registration is needed. Simply open the Time Converter in your browser and start using it immediately. There are no sign-up walls or usage restrictions.
How do I use the Time Converter?
Simply enter your input in the provided field, adjust any settings to your preference, and the tool will process it instantly. You can then copy the result to your clipboard or download it.
Which browsers are supported?
The Time Converter works in all modern browsers including Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, and Opera. For the best experience, use the latest version of your preferred browser.
How many seconds are in a year?
It depends on which year you mean. A common 365-day year has exactly 31,536,000 seconds, because 365 days times 86,400 seconds per day. A leap year of 366 days has 31,622,400 seconds. For general conversions this tool uses the average 365.25-day year, which accounts for leap years over time and works out to 31,557,600 seconds. That quarter-day is why a single billion seconds is roughly 31.7 years rather than a clean 31 or 32. The same logic applies to smaller units: an hour is 3,600 seconds and a day is 86,400 seconds. Rather than memorize these figures or risk a slipped digit, type your value into the Time Converter, pick seconds and years, and read the exact equivalent instantly.
How do I convert hours to minutes and minutes to seconds?
Both conversions use a factor of 60, because there are 60 minutes in an hour and 60 seconds in a minute. To go from hours to minutes, multiply by 60: 2.5 hours becomes 150 minutes. To go from minutes to seconds, multiply by 60 again: 150 minutes is 9,000 seconds. Working backward, you divide instead of multiply, so 9,000 seconds divided by 60 gives 150 minutes. The tricky part is that time is not decimal, so 1.5 hours is 90 minutes, not 150, a mistake that is easy to make under pressure. The Time Converter handles the arithmetic for you: enter a value, choose hours and minutes (or minutes and seconds), and the result updates the moment you type, so chained conversions never drift.
Why are months and years harder to convert than hours and days?
Most time units stack cleanly: 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day. Months and years break that pattern because they are not fixed lengths. Calendar months range from 28 to 31 days, and years vary between 365 and 366 days depending on leap years. To give consistent answers, this converter treats a month as a standard 30 days and a year as 365.25 days, the long-run average that absorbs leap years. That means converted months and years are approximations suited to estimates and durations, not exact calendar dates. When you need the real number of days between two specific calendar dates, use the built-in date calculator instead, which counts actual days, weeks, and months for the exact period you enter.
How do I calculate the duration between two dates?
Switch to the date calculator tab inside the Time Converter and enter a start date and an end date. The tool reports the span between them broken down into years, months, weeks, and days, so you can see a project's length or count down to a deadline at a glance. Unlike converting an abstract value such as "3 months," the date calculator counts the actual calendar days in your chosen range, which correctly handles months of differing lengths and any leap days that fall in between. This makes it reliable for things like billing periods, contract terms, age in days, or how long ago an event happened. Pick your two dates and the duration appears instantly, with everything calculated locally in your browser so your dates stay private.
What is Planck time and why does the converter show scientific notation?
Planck time is the shortest physically meaningful interval in physics, about 5.39 x 10 to the minus 44 seconds, and it is one of the 28 units this converter supports alongside specialist scales like the shake (10 nanoseconds) and sidereal year. Numbers that small, or extremely large ones like millennia in nanoseconds, have far too many digits to write out in full, so the tool automatically switches to scientific notation, which expresses a value as a number times a power of ten. This keeps results readable instead of a long string of zeros. You can toggle the scientific display on or off and set how many decimal places you want, giving you control over precision for both everyday and scientific work. Enter any value above to see it expressed across all 28 units at once.
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About the Time Converter
The Time Converter turns a value in one unit of time into its equivalent in another β hours to minutes, days to seconds, years to weeks, and dozens of less common pairings. Type a number, pick the unit you have and the unit you want, and the result appears instantly. It is built for anyone who works with durations: developers reasoning about timeouts and timestamps, students checking physics and astronomy figures, project managers converting effort estimates, and anyone curious how many seconds are really in a year.
Everything runs locally in your browser. The numbers you enter are never uploaded to a server, there is no sign-up, and there is nothing to install. Because the math happens on your device, conversions update the moment you type and keep working even after the page has loaded offline.
Units you can convert between
The Time Converter covers 28 units spread across five groups, so you can move between everyday durations and specialist scales in one place:
- Common β nanoseconds, microseconds, milliseconds, seconds, minutes, and hours, the units most clocks, code, and stopwatches use.
- Calendar β days, weeks, fortnights, months (treated as 30 days), years (365.25 days), decades, centuries, and millennia for long-range durations.
- Scientific β picoseconds, femtoseconds, attoseconds, Planck time (about 5.39 x 10β»β΄β΄ s), the physics jiffy, and the shake (10 nanoseconds).
- Historical β sidereal day, sidereal year, tropical year, a score (20 years), and an Olympiad (4 years).
- Computing β clock cycles at 1 GHz and 3 GHz, and the USB microframe (125 microseconds).
Values that get extremely large or small switch to scientific notation automatically, and you can toggle that display on or off and set how many decimal places you want.
Tools beyond a single conversion
A plain converter answers one question at a time; this one is built to explore time from several angles. Alongside the main input you get four tabbed views:
- A conversion table showing your value expressed in every supported unit at once, so you do not have to convert one pair at a time.
- A visual comparison that draws proportional bars, making the gulf between, say, a millisecond and a millennium immediately obvious.
- A date calculator that takes a start and end date and reports the duration between them in years, months, weeks, days, and more β useful for counting down to a deadline or measuring how long a project ran.
- A history panel that remembers your recent conversions so you can revisit or reapply them.
You can also star the units you use most to keep them in a quick-access favorites list, swap the "from" and "to" units with one click, copy any result to the clipboard, and load presets such as one day, a human lifespan, or the age of the universe.
Why time conversion trips people up
Time is the one measurement system that is not cleanly decimal, which is exactly why a converter saves mistakes. There are 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day, and then irregular months and leap-adjusted years on top of that. A few facts worth keeping in hand:
- One hour is 3,600 seconds; one day is 86,400 seconds.
- A common year has 31,536,000 seconds, while the 365.25-day year this tool uses for conversions works out to 31,557,600 seconds.
- One billion seconds is roughly 31.7 years β far longer than most people guess.
Whenever a calculation depends on getting those relationships right β a cron interval, a billing period, a lab measurement, or simply settling a debate about how long something takes β the Time Converter does the arithmetic so you do not have to. Enter a value above and read off the equivalent in any unit you need.