How many minutes are in a day?
1,440 minutes. A day has 24 hours and each hour has 60 minutes: 24 × 60 = 1,440. That is 86,400 seconds.
Minutes and seconds, from an hour to a year
| Span | Minutes | Seconds |
|---|---|---|
| 1 hour | 60 | 3,600 |
| Half a day (12 hours) | 720 | 43,200 |
| 1 day (24 hours) | 1,440 | 86,400 |
| 1 week (7 days) | 10,080 | 604,800 |
| 28-day month | 40,320 | 2,419,200 |
| 30-day month | 43,200 | 2,592,000 |
| 31-day month | 44,640 | 2,678,400 |
| 1 year (365 days) | 525,600 | 31,536,000 |
| Leap year (366 days) | 527,040 | 31,622,400 |
An average Gregorian month, 365.2425 days divided by twelve, is about 43,829 minutes. The 525,600 minutes in a year are the ones counted in the song “Seasons of Love”.
The maths
- Minutes in a day = 24 hours × 60 minutes = 1,440
- Seconds in a day = 1,440 minutes × 60 seconds = 86,400
- Minutes in a week = 1,440 × 7 = 10,080
- Minutes in a year = 1,440 × 365 = 525,600
- Days in N minutes = N ÷ 1,440. So 10,000 minutes is 6.94 days.
Where the 1,440 minutes go
| Activity | Minutes | Share of the day |
|---|---|---|
| 8 hours of sleep | 480 | 33.3% |
| 8-hour working day | 480 | 33.3% |
| 1 hour | 60 | 4.2% |
| 15 minutes | 15 | 1.04% |
| 1 minute | 1 | 0.069% |
Days that are not 1,440 minutes long
The UTC clock always has 1,440 minutes in a day. Local clocks do not: where daylight saving applies, the spring-forward day is 23 hours, or 1,380 minutes, and the fall-back day is 25 hours, or 1,500 minutes. A leap second is added to the last minute of a UTC day, which then lasts 61 seconds — the day gets one second longer but keeps its 1,440 minutes.
A site with exactly 1,440 minutes for sale
the1440.com is built on this number. Every UTC day, each of its 1,440 minutes is sold exactly once, and whoever buys one gets the whole front page for sixty seconds: their name, one line and a link, alone on the screen. Unsold minutes air as dead air and never come back.
Each minute has its own page with the time in 24 cities — start at 00:00, jump to 11:11 or browse all 1,440.
Questions
How many minutes are in a day?
There are 1,440 minutes in a day. A day has 24 hours and every hour has 60 minutes, so 24 × 60 = 1,440.
How many seconds are in a day?
There are 86,400 seconds in a day: 1,440 minutes × 60 seconds.
How many minutes are in a week?
There are 10,080 minutes in a week: 1,440 minutes × 7 days.
How many minutes are in a year?
There are 525,600 minutes in a 365-day year and 527,040 in a leap year of 366 days.
Does every day have exactly 1,440 minutes?
Every UTC day has 1,440 minutes. On a local clock, the day daylight saving starts has 1,380 minutes (23 hours) and the day it ends has 1,500 (25 hours). A leap second makes the last minute of a UTC day 61 seconds long, but the day still has 1,440 minutes.
What percentage of the day is one minute?
One minute is 1/1,440 of a day, about 0.069%. One hour is 1/24, about 4.17%.