Conversion formula

The conversion factor from years to months is 12, which means that 1 year is equal to 12 months:

1 yr = 12 mo

To convert 0.4 years into months we have to multiply 0.4 by the conversion factor in order to get the time amount from years to months. We can also form a simple proportion to calculate the result:

1 yr → 12 mo

0.4 yr → T_(mo)

Solve the above proportion to obtain the time T in months:

T_(mo) = 0.4 yr × 12 mo

T_(mo) = 4.8 mo

The final result is:

0.4 yr → 4.8 mo

We conclude that 0.4 years is equivalent to 4.8 months:

0.4 years = 4.8 months

Alternative conversion

We can also convert by utilizing the inverse value of the conversion factor. In this case 1 month is equal to 0.20833333333333 × 0.4 years.

Another way is saying that 0.4 years is equal to 1 ÷ 0.20833333333333 months.

Approximate result

For practical purposes we can round our final result to an approximate numerical value. We can say that zero point four years is approximately four point eight months:

0.4 yr ≅ 4.8 mo

An alternative is also that one month is approximately zero point two zero eight times zero point four years.

Conversion table

years to months chart

For quick reference purposes, below is the conversion table you can use to convert from years to months