How do you calculate 1 year in seconds?

How to Convert Years to Seconds

To convert a year measurement to a second measurement, multiply the time by the conversion ratio.

Since one year is equal to 31,556,952 seconds, you can use this simple formula to convert:

seconds = years × 31,556,952

The time in seconds is equal to the years multiplied by 31,556,952.

For example, here's how to convert 5 years to seconds using the formula above.

5 yr = (5 × 31,556,952) = 157,784,760 sec

How Many Seconds Are in a Year?

There are 31,556,952 seconds in a year, which is why we use this value in the formula above.

1 yr = 31,556,952 sec

Years and seconds are both units used to measure time. Keep reading to learn more about each unit of measure.

Years

One year is the time it takes for the Earth to complete its orbit around the Sun. There are 365 days in a year, with the exception of the leap year when there are 366.

Years can be abbreviated as yr, and are also sometimes abbreviated as y. For example, 1 year can be written as 1 yr or 1 y.

Seconds

The second has historically been defined as 1/60 of a minute or 1/86,400 of a day. According the to SI definition, the second is the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the unperturbed ground state of the caesium 133 atom.[1]

The second is the SI base unit for time in the metric system. Seconds can be abbreviated as sec; for example, 1 second can be written as 1 sec.