Year (yr)
The year is a unit of time, used for age, academic years, financial reporting, and long-term planning. Its symbol is yr.
yr
min
1 year equals
| Minutes | 525,960 min |
| Hours | 8,766 h |
| Seconds | 31,557,600 s |
| Days | 365.25 d |
About the year
The year is based on Earth's orbital period around the Sun (about 365.2422 days). The Gregorian calendar accounts for this with leap years every 4 years, with century exceptions.
In everyday use the year appears in age, academic years, financial reporting, and long-term planning. As a point of reference: earth travels about 940 million kilometers in its orbit each year.