How long is a year?
Put simply, one year is 12 months, which is about 52.18 weeks or 365.25 days. If you break it down further, a year equals 8,766 hours or 525,960 minutes.
Here's a closer look at what a year equals:
- 12 months
- About 52.18 weeks
- About 365.25 days
- About 8,766 hours
- About 525,960 minutes
- About 31,557,600 seconds
This amount of time corresponds to:
- Sleeping 8 hours per night over 365 nights (total is 2,922 hours)
- Eating about 1,096 meals (three meals per day)
- The Moon orbiting Earth 13.4 times (each orbit takes about 27.3 days)
- Working 2,087 hours (assuming a 40-hour workweek)
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