Convert one year to hours

Explanation

To convert one year to hours all we need is to know the conversion factor and we are done. Luckily, we can compute that factor using the units' definitions below.

The result is that there are 8760 hours in 1 year.

Formula

1 y = 8760 h

yearsy

dimension	time
symbol	y

The year (y) is a unit of measurement of time.

The unit is based on a year of 365 days of 86400 seconds each and is therefore equal to a common year in the Gregorian calendar.

It is different from the tropical year (the actual year or complete cycle of seasons), the sideral year (the time taken by the Earth to orbit the Sun once with respect to the fixed stars) or the julian year (the average year in the Julian calendar).

Definition of the year

One year is equal to 31536000 seconds.

Equivalences

One year is also equivalent to:

Other multiple of a year

nanoyear	ny	0.000 000 001
microyear	µy	0.000 001
milliyear	my	0.001
year	y	1
kiloyear	ky	1000
megayear	My	1 000 000
gigayear	Gy	1 000 000 000

hoursh

dimension	time
symbol	h

The hour (h) is a common unit of measurement of time. It is accepted for use with the SI.

One hour can be divided into 60 minutes of 60 seconds each.

Definition of the hour

One hour is equal to 3600 seconds.

The International System of Units 9^th edition p. 145

Equivalences

Here are some equivalences between the hour and other units of time:

Some Facts

The length of days on Earth is increasing, drifting further and further from the "ideal" day of 24 hours as the Moon moves away from us. It is the same phenomenon that figure skaters experiment when they stretch their arms out while spinning.

Common time units

second	s
minute	min	60 seconds
hour	h	60 minutes
day	d	24 hours
week	w	7 days
year	y	365 days

A sexagesimal system

Hours, minutes and seconds are an example of a sexagesimal or base 60 numeral system.

The number 60 is a superior highly composite number, meaning it has a lot of factors. This allows for some simplification when dividing.

Since there are 60 minutes in an hour, the hour can be divided evenly in eleven different ways (with sections of 30, 20, 15, 12, 10, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and of course 1 minute).

Coming up with and remembering 60 different symbols would be cumbersome, that is why we write the sexagesimal digit using the decimal system.