How many hours is 2pm to 2am?
2pm to 2am
12 hours
2pm to 2am is 12 hours, or 720 minutes, ending the next day.
- Hours and minutes
- 12 hours
- Total minutes
- 720
- Decimal hours
- 12
- With a 30-minute unpaid break
- 11 hours 30 minutes (11.5 decimal hours)
- Crosses midnight
- Yes, it ends the next day
- 24-hour notation
- 14:00 to 02:00 (next day)
- Before and after midnight
- 10 hours before, 2 hours after
About this shift
The shift starts in the afternoon and runs past midnight, so it ends in the small hours on the next calendar day. 10 hours fall before midnight and 2 hours after it.
Three 12-hour shifts make 36 hours a week and four make 48 hours. With a 30-minute unpaid break on each, three come to 34 hours 30 minutes.
If you take a 30-minute unpaid break, 11 hours 30 minutes remain, which a timesheet in decimal hours shows as 11.5. The 30 minutes is an example, not a legal rule. Break and overtime rules depend on your contract and where you work. This page gives clock time only.
How the hours are worked out
- Write both times in 24-hour form: 14:00 and 02:00.
- The end time is earlier on the clock than the start, so add 24 hours to it. 02:00 becomes 26:00.
- Subtract. 26:00 − 14:00 = 12:00, which is 12 hours.
- For minutes, 12 × 60 = 720. For decimal hours, 720 ÷ 60 = 12.
- With the break, 720 − 30 = 690 minutes, or 11 hours 30 minutes.
Nearby start and end times
Other times, or a whole week
The hours calculator takes your own start and end time for each day, a break per day and an optional hourly rate, and adds up the week. Open the hours calculator