How many hours is 5pm to 2am?
5pm to 2am
9 hours
5pm to 2am is 9 hours, or 540 minutes, ending the next day.
- Hours and minutes
- 9 hours
- Total minutes
- 540
- Decimal hours
- 9
- With a 30-minute unpaid break
- 8 hours 30 minutes (8.5 decimal hours)
- Crosses midnight
- Yes, it ends the next day
- 24-hour notation
- 17:00 to 02:00 (next day)
- Before and after midnight
- 7 hours before, 2 hours after
About this shift
The shift starts in the evening and runs past midnight, so it ends in the small hours on the next calendar day. 7 hours fall before midnight and 2 hours after it.
9 hours is 1 hour more than an 8-hour day. Four of these shifts come to 36 hours a week, and five come to 45 hours.
If you take a 30-minute unpaid break, 8 hours 30 minutes remain, which a timesheet in decimal hours shows as 8.5. 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: 17:00 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 − 17:00 = 9:00, which is 9 hours.
- For minutes, 9 × 60 = 540. For decimal hours, 540 ÷ 60 = 9.
- With the break, 540 − 30 = 510 minutes, or 8 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