How many hours is 11:30am to 4:30pm?
11:30am to 4:30pm
5 hours
11:30am to 4:30pm is 5 hours, or 300 minutes.
- Hours and minutes
- 5 hours
- Total minutes
- 300
- Decimal hours
- 5
- With a 30-minute unpaid break
- 4 hours 30 minutes (4.5 decimal hours)
- Crosses midnight
- No
- 24-hour notation
- 11:30 to 16:30
About this shift
The shift starts in the morning and ends in the afternoon on the same date. It doesn't cross midnight, so the hours are a plain subtraction. From 11:30am to noon is 30 minutes, and from noon to 4:30pm is 4 hours 30 minutes.
5 hours is 3 hours short of 8 hours. Five of these shifts come to 25 hours a week, or 22 hours 30 minutes with a 30-minute unpaid break each day.
If you take a 30-minute unpaid break, 4 hours 30 minutes remain, which a timesheet in decimal hours shows as 4.5. The 30 minutes is an example, not a legal rule. Whether you get a break, and whether it is paid, depends on your employer and where you work.
How the hours are worked out
- Write both times in 24-hour form: 11:30 and 16:30.
- Subtract. 16:30 − 11:30 = 5:00, which is 5 hours.
- For minutes, 5 × 60 = 300. For decimal hours, 300 ÷ 60 = 5.
- With the break, 300 − 30 = 270 minutes, or 4 hours 30 minutes.
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