Conversion formula

The conversion factor from hours to minutes is 60, which means that 1 hour is equal to 60 minutes:

1 hr = 60 min

To convert 72 hours into minutes we have to multiply 72 by the conversion factor in order to get the time amount from hours to minutes. We can also form a simple proportion to calculate the result:

1 hr → 60 min

72 hr → T_(min)

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

T_(min) = 72 hr × 60 min

T_(min) = 4320 min

The final result is:

72 hr → 4320 min

We conclude that 72 hours is equivalent to 4320 minutes:

72 hours = 4320 minutes

Alternative conversion

We can also convert by utilizing the inverse value of the conversion factor. In this case 1 minute is equal to 0.00023148148148148 × 72 hours.

Another way is saying that 72 hours is equal to 1 ÷ 0.00023148148148148 minutes.

Approximate result

For practical purposes we can round our final result to an approximate numerical value. We can say that seventy-two hours is approximately four thousand three hundred twenty minutes:

72 hr ≅ 4320 min

An alternative is also that one minute is approximately zero times seventy-two hours.

Conversion table

hours to minutes chart

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