Convert Seconds to Minutes
Convert Seconds to Minutes instantly. 1 Second (s) equals 0.01667 Minutes (min).
Seconds to Minutes conversion table
| Seconds (s) | Minutes (min) |
|---|---|
| 1 s | 0.01667 min |
| 2 s | 0.03333 min |
| 3 s | 0.05 min |
| 5 s | 0.08333 min |
| 10 s | 0.1667 min |
| 20 s | 0.3333 min |
| 50 s | 0.8333 min |
| 100 s | 1.6667 min |
| 500 s | 8.3333 min |
| 1,000 s | 16.6667 min |
1 Second = 0.01667 Minutes · multiply Seconds by 0.01667
About converting Seconds to Minutes
Seconds (s) and Minutes (min) are both units of time, so converting between them is a single multiplication: multiply your Seconds figure by 0.01667. Ten Seconds comes to 0.1667 Minutes, and a hundred works out at 1.6667 Minutes.
Rule of thumb: going from Seconds to Minutes divides, so the figure always shrinks — it takes about 60 Seconds to make a single Minute. If your answer came out bigger, you have the conversion the wrong way round.
What is a Second?
The second is the SI base unit of time and the reference every other unit here is measured against. It was originally 1/86,400 of a mean solar day, but the Earth’s rotation is not steady enough to serve as a clock, so since 1967 the second has been defined by the caesium-133 atom: 9,192,631,770 periods of a specific hyperfine transition. Atomic time and Earth time therefore drift apart, which is why leap seconds are occasionally inserted to realign them — a fiddly practice that in 2022 was agreed to be phased out by 2035.
What is a Minute?
A minute is sixty seconds, and the sixty is a Babylonian inheritance. Ancient astronomy counted in base 60, and that arithmetic survives in two places: the division of the hour into minutes and seconds, and the division of the degree into arcminutes and arcseconds — the same words, the same ancestry. The names are Latin bookkeeping: pars minuta prima, the "first small part" of an hour, and pars minuta secunda, the second one, which is where the second gets its name. The minute is not an SI unit, but it is officially accepted for use alongside them.
To put both in perspective: a human heartbeat takes about a second, while reading a page of a paperback takes about a minute.
The converter above updates as you type, and the table lists common values for quick reference. Need the opposite direction? Use the Minutes to Seconds converter, or browse all Time converters.
Frequently asked questions
How many Minutes are in one Second?
There are 0.01667 Minutes in one Second.
How do I convert Seconds to Minutes?
Multiply the number of Seconds by 0.01667. For example, 10 Seconds = 0.1667 Minutes.
What is 100 Seconds in Minutes?
100 Seconds is equal to 1.6667 Minutes.
How do I convert Minutes to Seconds?
Multiply the Minutes value by 60 (or divide by 0.01667).
Is this Seconds to Minutes conversion exact?
The definition is exact — Seconds and Minutes are both fixed against the same base by international agreement — but the decimal shown here is rounded for readability, because the true ratio does not terminate. For engineering or scientific work, carry more decimal places than this page displays.
What is a Second?
The second is the SI base unit of time and the reference every other unit here is measured against. It was originally 1/86,400 of a mean solar day, but the Earth’s rotation is not steady enough to serve as a clock, so since 1967 the second has been defined by the caesium-133 atom: 9,192,631,770 periods of a specific hyperfine transition. Atomic time and Earth time therefore drift apart, which is why leap seconds are occasionally inserted to realign them — a fiddly practice that in 2022 was agreed to be phased out by 2035.
What is a Minute?
A minute is sixty seconds, and the sixty is a Babylonian inheritance. Ancient astronomy counted in base 60, and that arithmetic survives in two places: the division of the hour into minutes and seconds, and the division of the degree into arcminutes and arcseconds — the same words, the same ancestry. The names are Latin bookkeeping: pars minuta prima, the "first small part" of an hour, and pars minuta secunda, the second one, which is where the second gets its name. The minute is not an SI unit, but it is officially accepted for use alongside them.