How many hours are in a month?

To get the hours in any month, multiply its days by 24. Months come in four lengths, counting February in a leap year, so there are four answers. February is the short one, with 28 days, or 29 in a leap year, when it gets one extra day. The last two rows spread a whole year evenly over twelve months.

The table gives every length of month, and this works out one month on a real calendar. Pick a month and a year, and it counts the days, the hours and the weekdays, and draws the month so you can see where its weekends fall.

Working hours are a different count, because only weekdays are working days. A full-time month averages 173.3 working hours. To get that, take a 40-hour week over a year, which is 2,080 hours, and divide it by 12. Payroll often uses this average to turn an hourly rate into a monthly salary, because it is the same every month.

A real month is less even. Depending on where the weekends fall, it has 20 to 23 weekdays. At 8 hours a day, that is 160 to 184 hours, before holidays. The table counts the weekdays in each month of 2026.

The math says how many hours a month has; a survey says how people tend to spend them. The American Time Use Survey is a yearly study from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. It asks people age 15 and over across the United States to walk through the day before, one activity at a time and in order, and turns their answers into averages for a single day.

In its 2025 results, an average American age 15 and over sleeps about 275 hours a month and watches about 79 hours of television. Each monthly figure is the survey’s daily average times 30.42 days, the length of an average month. The averages cover everyone, workers or not, over every day of the year.