How Many Hours Are in a Week?

There are 168 hours in a week. The calculation is straightforward:

• 24 hours in a day × 7 days in a week = 168 hours

Here's how those 168 hours often get divided for a typical person:

• ~56 hours of sleep (about 8 hours a night)
• ~40 hours of full-time work
• That leaves roughly 72 hours for everything else

Related conversions:

• 1 week = 10,080 minutes
• 1 week = 604,800 seconds
• 1 week = 168 hours

Seeing your week as a fixed budget of 168 hours is a popular time-management idea — it makes it easier to decide how you really want to spend your time.