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How to round time to nearest hour/minute/second in Excel?

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This tutorial is talking about rounding time to nearest hour, minute or second in Excel as below screenshot shown.
Round time to nearest hour/minute/second

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Round time to nearest 1 hour

Select a cell and type this formula =MROUND(A2,"1:00") into it, and press Enter key, then drag autofill handle to the cells you need.
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Tips:

1. You need to format the cells as time format firstly by selecting cells and right clicking to select Format Cells in the context menu; in the Format Cells dialog, selecting Time in Category list and then selecting a time type in Type list, and clicking OK.

2. You also can use these formulas to round time to nearest hour =ROUND(A2/(1/24),0)*(1/24) or =MROUND(A2,1/24).

3. If you want to round time to previous 1 hour, you can use this formula =FLOOR(A2,1/24).

4. In above formulas, you can change 1 to other number as you need.

Round time to nearest 15 minute

Select a cell and type this formula =ROUND(A2*(24*60/15),0)/(24*60/15) into it, and press Enter key, then drag autofill handle to the cells you need.doc-round-time-3

Tip:

1. You need to format the cells as time format firstly by selecting cells and right clicking to select Format Cells in the context menu; in the Format Cells dialog selecting Time in Category list, selecting a time type in Type list, and clicking OK.

2. You also can use this formula =MROUND(A2,15/60/24) to round time to nearest minute.

3. If you want to round time to previous 15 minute, use this formula =FLOOR(A2,15/60/24).

4. In above formulas, you can change 15 to other number as you need.

Round time to nearest 10 second

Select a cell and type this formula =MROUND(A2, 10/86400) into it, and press Enter key, then drag autofill handle to the cells you need.
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Tip:

1. You need to format the cells as time format firstly by selecting cells and right clicking to select Format Cells in the context menu, then go to select a time type in the Format Cells dialog.

2. In above formula, you can change 10 to other number as you need. For example, use =MROUND(A2, 20/86400) to round time to nearest 20 second.

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Edson Ribeiro
Edson Ribeiro
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Buenos días, estoy intentando "redondear" los segundos pero sin que se cambie los minutos en un formato HH:MM:SS. Exemplo: 13:27:33 que aparezca solamente 13:27:00
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Sunny     Edson Ribeiro
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Hi, try this formula then format result as time.
=MROUND(A1,"0:01")
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Marco
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Quale formula si può usare per arrotondare al quarto d'ora, considerando che, per l'orario d'ingresso il minuto 15/30/45/00 deve essere successivo al minuto della timbratura mentre per l'uscita deve accadere esattamente il contrario?

Esempio:
ingresso 7:42 -> 7:45
uscita 12:18 -> 12:15
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Yhorgianny
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Estoy tratando de redondear minutos es decir si esta 1:40 se quede 2:00 minutos o 1:04 solo 1:00 minuto
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FREDY
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HOLA ESTOY TRATANDO DE REDONDEAR LAS HORAS, EJEMPLO SI LLEGA A LA HORA CON FRACION DE 15 MINUTOS SE QUEDE EN LA HORA, SI PASA EL MINUTO 16 HASTA EL MINUTO 45 SE QUEDE EN HORAS Y MEDIA Y DESPUES DEL MINUTO 46 SE SUBA A LA SIGUIENTE HORA. GRACIAS
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Sunny     FREDY
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Hi, FREDY, you can try this formula
=IF(MINUTE(A3)<15,MROUND(A3,"1:00"),IF(MINUTE(A3)<45,MROUND(A3,"0:30"),MROUND(A3,"1:00")))
A3 is the cell that contains the time.
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Me
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Thank You for posting this!
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Mark Tindal
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Hi, your formula for rounding to the nearest minute should be MROUND(A2,1/60/24), thanks for great work on these.
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jaime
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hi do have any formula to round up total hours 1 minute into 1 hours, example 124:01-125:00
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Sunny     jaime
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Hello, jaime, this fomrula can help you =ROUNDUP( B2*24, 0) / 24
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Nancy
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Thank you for posting a way to round the time down to the nearest hour with the Floor function! It's the only thing that actually worked!
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Carlos
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Hi,

I’m trying to round down over time hours. Everything should be in down to the hour examples
1:56 – 1:00
2:17 – 2:00

I’m using floor currently but have come to a little problem. When it is exactly on the hour like 1:00, 2:00, 3:00, it rounds down to 0:00, 1:00, 2:00 but should stay at respective hours. Any possible solution?

Thanks!
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Sunny     Carlos
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Sorry for reply you too late, I did not found the direct formula to solve your problem, but you can add 1:00 into a cell, and then use =FLOOR(A2,1/24)-the cell contains 1:00 to get the correct answer.
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David Greer     Sunny
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What is the easiest formula to round Work Time Hours down to the nearest tenth of an hour?
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hita     David Greer
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=ROUND(G2*(1*60/30),0)/(1*60/30) , you mean like this?
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