Convert Seconds to Minutes
Convert Seconds (s) to Minutes (min) instantly and accurately.
Conversion Formula
min = s × 0.01666666667
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.
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.
Quick Reference Table
| Seconds (s) | Minutes (min) |
|---|---|
| 1 s | 0.0166667 min |
| 2 s | 0.0333333 min |
| 5 s | 0.0833333 min |
| 10 s | 0.166667 min |
| 25 s | 0.416667 min |
| 50 s | 0.833333 min |
| 100 s | 1.66667 min |