How many hours are in a week?

168 hours

7 days × 24 hours = 168 hours, or 10,080 minutes — seven times the 1,440 minutes in a day. The converter above starts at 1 week; enter 2 weeks, half a week or any number to see the hours and the days. For a week counted on the calendar from today, see the date pages such as 2 weeks from today.

Where the 168 hours go

A common way to plan a week is to start from the fixed blocks:

Adjust the numbers to your own week; the point is that a full-time job takes less than a quarter of it. To total the hours actually worked in a week from start and end times, use the work hours calculator or the time card calculator.

Planning in hours rather than days shows how much room a week has. Ten hours of exercise, reading or study is about 6% of the week; a two-hour daily screen habit is 14 hours, more than a full workday and a half. If you track time for a few weeks, divide the total by the number of weeks for an average, and compare it with the 168 available hours.

Hours in longer periods

Part-time, shifts and averages

Part-time schedules are easier to compare as a share of the week too: 20 hours is about 12% of 168, and a 30-hour week is the line many employers use for benefits. Shift patterns such as four 10-hour days still total 40 hours but leave three days free. For a rotating schedule, add the hours of a full cycle and divide by the number of weeks in it: a two-week cycle of 36 and 48 hours averages 42 hours a week. A week that crosses a daylight saving change has 167 or 169 hours, which matters for night shifts that span the change.

40 hours, 2,080 hours and overtime

A standard U.S. full-time schedule is 40 hours a week, which makes 2,080 hours over 52 weeks — the number used to compare an hourly wage with a salary; the hourly to salary calculator does it both ways. Under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, hours beyond 40 in a workweek are overtime for nonexempt employees, paid at least time and a half. The overtime calculator works out the pay.