Conversion formula

The conversion factor from days to hours is 24, which means that 1 day is equal to 24 hours:

1 d = 24 hr

To convert 72.5 days into hours we have to multiply 72.5 by the conversion factor in order to get the time amount from days to hours. We can also form a simple proportion to calculate the result:

1 d → 24 hr

72.5 d → T_(hr)

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

T_(hr) = 72.5 d × 24 hr

T_(hr) = 1740 hr

The final result is:

72.5 d → 1740 hr

We conclude that 72.5 days is equivalent to 1740 hours:

72.5 days = 1740 hours

Alternative conversion

We can also convert by utilizing the inverse value of the conversion factor. In this case 1 hour is equal to 0.00057471264367816 × 72.5 days.

Another way is saying that 72.5 days is equal to 1 ÷ 0.00057471264367816 hours.

Approximate result

For practical purposes we can round our final result to an approximate numerical value. We can say that seventy-two point five days is approximately one thousand seven hundred forty hours:

72.5 d ≅ 1740 hr

An alternative is also that one hour is approximately zero point zero zero one times seventy-two point five days.

Conversion table

days to hours chart

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