How many hours is 2pm to 5am?
2pm to 5am
15 hours
2pm to 5am is 15 hours, or 900 minutes, ending the next day.
- Hours and minutes
- 15 hours
- Total minutes
- 900
- Decimal hours
- 15
- With a 30-minute unpaid break
- 14 hours 30 minutes (14.5 decimal hours)
- Crosses midnight
- Yes, it ends the next day
- 24-hour notation
- 14:00 to 05:00 (next day)
- Before and after midnight
- 10 hours before, 5 hours after
About this shift
The shift starts in the afternoon and runs past midnight, so it ends in the morning on the next calendar day. 10 hours fall before midnight and 5 hours after it.
15 hours is 3 hours longer than a 12-hour shift. If you worked it as two separate shifts, enter each one on its own line in the hours calculator so each gets its own break.
If you take a 30-minute unpaid break, 14 hours 30 minutes remain, which a timesheet in decimal hours shows as 14.5. 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 05:00.
- The end time is earlier on the clock than the start, so add 24 hours to it. 05:00 becomes 29:00.
- Subtract. 29:00 − 14:00 = 15:00, which is 15 hours.
- For minutes, 15 × 60 = 900. For decimal hours, 900 ÷ 60 = 15.
- With the break, 900 − 30 = 870 minutes, or 14 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