Hours to Decimal

Turn hours and minutes into decimal hours, with a table of common fractions and a helper that totals a whole time sheet.

Convert hours and minutes to decimal

Decimal hours: —
Total minutes: —
Fraction of a day: —
—
Entries read: — · Total: —
—
Minutes are divided by 60 and seconds by 3600 to give the decimal part, and the helper accepts either 7:45 or 7.75 on each line.

How to use the Hours to Decimal

  1. Enter the hours, minutes and seconds you want to convert.
  2. Read the decimal hours, the total minutes and the fraction of a day.
  3. Paste one entry per line into the helper to total a whole time sheet.

Features

Advertisement

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about the free online hours to decimal.

Divide the minutes by 60 and add the result to the hours. So 7 hours and 45 minutes becomes 7.75 decimal hours.
30 divided by 60 is 0.5, so half an hour is 0.5 decimal hours and four hours and 30 minutes is 4.5.
Seconds are divided by 3600, so 30 seconds adds 0.0083 of an hour to the decimal total.
Type one entry per line in either 7:45 or 7.75 form. The tool reads each line, totals them and reports how many it used.
Multiplying decimal hours by an hourly rate is a single step, which is why payroll systems store time as a decimal number.
It divides the decimal hours by 24, which is handy for shift planning, rosters and timesheet summaries.
Yes. Press Copy result and paste the text into any spreadsheet, invoice or timesheet document.
Lines with letters or bad punctuation are skipped, and the count line tells you how many entries were ignored.
No. All of the arithmetic runs inside your browser and the entries you type stay on your own device.

Last updated: October 10, 2026