Convert Minutes to Seconds
Convert Minutes (min) to Seconds (s) instantly and accurately.
Conversion Formula
s = min × 60
About Minutes
A minute (min) = exactly 60 s, inherited from Babylonian sexagesimal astronomy. Medieval astronomers named the sixtieth part of a degree 'pars minuta prima' (hence minute); its sixtieth 'pars minuta secunda' (hence second). Running performance is expressed in min/km or min/mile; music tempo in BPM (beats per minute, ~40-220); angles in degrees-minutes-seconds (DMS). 1 min = 60 s = 1/60 h.
About Seconds
The second (s) is the SI base unit of time, defined since 1967 as exactly 9,192,631,770 periods of the caesium-133 ground-state hyperfine transition at 0 K. Caesium fountain clocks realise this to ~10⁻¹⁶ (1 s lost per ~300 million years); optical lattice clocks (Sr, Yb) reach ~10⁻¹⁸. The second links to the metre via the defined speed of light c = 299,792,458 m/s exactly. 1 s = 1,000 ms = 1/60 min.
Quick Reference Table
| Minutes (min) | Seconds (s) |
|---|---|
| 1 min | 60 s |
| 2 min | 120 s |
| 5 min | 300 s |
| 10 min | 600 s |
| 25 min | 1500 s |
| 50 min | 3000 s |
| 100 min | 6000 s |