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Unit converter

Minutes to seconds.

Convert min to s and s to min. Type in either box and the other follows. Sixty to the minute — useful for exercise intervals, cooking timers and video lengths.

min → sExact definition
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Minutes to seconds — common values, to 6 significant figures.
mins
0.5 min30 s
1 min60 s
2 min120 s
3 min180 s
5 min300 s
10 min600 s
15 min900 s
30 min1800 s
45 min2700 s
90 min5400 s
1 min=60 s 1 s=0.01666666667 min

Definitions

  • The minute is exactly 60 seconds — one of the few units SI accepts without being decimal, inherited from Babylonian counting.
  • The second is the SI base unit of time, defined by the caesium-133 hyperfine transition.
  • This conversion is exact by definition. 1 min = 60 s.
  • Months and years are not fixed durations. The year here is the exact Julian year (365.25 days); the month is a mean Gregorian month, and a calendar month still varies from 28 to 31 days.

How it works

One direction multiplies and the other divides by the same number, so nothing is lost by going back and forth.

The value passes through s, the unit every other time unit on the site is defined against, rather than a number written into this page on its own. That is why the figure here, the figure in the table above and the general time converter always agree.

Display precision limits significant figures rather than decimal places, because one fixed number of decimals is useless across a range this wide. Very large and very small results switch to scientific notation with a proper superscript exponent. The editable box always holds a plain number at full working precision, so you can carry on from either side.

Common questions this answers: how many seconds in a minute (60), how many minutes in a second (0.0166667), and what 5 min is in seconds (300 s).

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