One name per hour
No AM or PM means no “did you mean this morning or tonight?” — 1900 can only be one moment.
Military Time Chart
All 24 hours of the day, military time beside standard 12-hour time. Turn the dial to any hour, or type the time you are looking for — the chart below lights up with the answer.
Military Time Chart: All 24 Hours
The full military time conversion chart. The first two digits are the hour, the last two the minutes — so 1500 is 15:00 on a 24-hour clock, which is 3:00 PM. Minutes are identical in both systems.
Midnight to noon — the AM half
From 0000 to 1159 the hour stays the same. Read the digits, add AM.
| Military time | 24-hour clock | 12-hour time | How you say it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0000 | 00:00 | 12:00 AM midnight | zero hundred hours |
| 0100 | 01:00 | 1:00 AM | zero one hundred hours |
| 0200 | 02:00 | 2:00 AM | zero two hundred hours |
| 0300 | 03:00 | 3:00 AM | zero three hundred hours |
| 0400 | 04:00 | 4:00 AM | zero four hundred hours |
| 0500 | 05:00 | 5:00 AM | zero five hundred hours |
| 0600 | 06:00 | 6:00 AM | zero six hundred hours |
| 0700 | 07:00 | 7:00 AM | zero seven hundred hours |
| 0800 | 08:00 | 8:00 AM | zero eight hundred hours |
| 0900 | 09:00 | 9:00 AM | zero nine hundred hours |
| 1000 | 10:00 | 10:00 AM | ten hundred hours |
| 1100 | 11:00 | 11:00 AM | eleven hundred hours |
Noon to midnight — the PM half
From 1200 to 2359 subtract 12 from the hour, add PM.
| Military time | 24-hour clock | 12-hour time | How you say it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1200 | 12:00 | 12:00 PM noon | twelve hundred hours |
| 1300 | 13:00 | 1:00 PM | thirteen hundred hours |
| 1400 | 14:00 | 2:00 PM | fourteen hundred hours |
| 1500 | 15:00 | 3:00 PM | fifteen hundred hours |
| 1600 | 16:00 | 4:00 PM | sixteen hundred hours |
| 1700 | 17:00 | 5:00 PM | seventeen hundred hours |
| 1800 | 18:00 | 6:00 PM | eighteen hundred hours |
| 1900 | 19:00 | 7:00 PM | nineteen hundred hours |
| 2000 | 20:00 | 8:00 PM | twenty hundred hours |
| 2100 | 21:00 | 9:00 PM | twenty-one hundred hours |
| 2200 | 22:00 | 10:00 PM | twenty-two hundred hours |
| 2300 | 23:00 | 11:00 PM | twenty-three hundred hours |
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Need a time that is not a whole hour, or the trip the other way from a 12-hour clock? The military time converter takes any time and converts it in both directions, next to a live 24-hour clock.
Minutes Never Change
Converting military time only ever touches the hour. The minutes are copied across exactly as they are — :20 stays :20 in both systems. Here is the hour you selected, minute by minute.
Pick another hour on the dial above and this table follows it.
| Military time | 12-hour time |
|---|---|
| 1500 | 3:00 PM |
| 1505 | 3:05 PM |
| 1510 | 3:10 PM |
| 1515 | 3:15 PM |
| 1520 | 3:20 PM |
| 1525 | 3:25 PM |
| 1530 | 3:30 PM |
| 1535 | 3:35 PM |
| 1540 | 3:40 PM |
| 1545 | 3:45 PM |
| 1550 | 3:50 PM |
| 1555 | 3:55 PM |
The Most Looked-Up Times
The military times people search for most, answered in one line each.
- 1520 military time = 3:20 PM
- 1320 military time = 1:20 PM
- 1700 military time = 5:00 PM
- 1732 military time = 5:32 PM
- 1900 military time = 7:00 PM
- 1930 military time = 7:30 PM
- 2000 military time = 8:00 PM
- 2200 military time = 10:00 PM
- Going the other way
- 9:00 PM = 2100 military time
- 7:00 PM = 1900 military time
- 10:00 PM = 2200 military time
- 12:00 AM = 0000 military time
- 8:00 PM = 2000 military time
- 11:00 PM = 2300 military time
How to Read a Military Time Chart
Two rules cover the whole day. Once you know where noon sits, you never need the chart again — but it is here anyway.
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Split the four digits. The first two are the hour, the last two the minutes. 1435 is hour 14, minute 35. There is no colon and no AM or PM.
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Under 1200? Read it as it is. 0730 is 7:30 AM. A leading zero only exists to keep every time four digits long.
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1200 or over? Subtract 12. 1435 − 12 hours = 2:35 PM. 2100 becomes 9:00 PM.
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Mind the two edges. 0000 is midnight, the very start of the day, and 1200 is noon. Neither one gets a 12 added or removed.
Where the Day Splits
The 12-hour clock runs twice a day, so 3 o’clock happens once in the morning and once in the afternoon. Military time runs once, straight through, so every hour has exactly one name.
The day ends at 2359. One minute later the clock is back at 0000 and a new date has started — which is why 2400 is written 0000 in almost every official style guide.
Always four digits
Leading zeros keep every time the same width, so times line up in a column and sort correctly.
Minutes stay decimal-free
Military time counts 60 minutes, not tenths. 1530 is half past three, not 15.5 hours.
Military Time vs the 24-Hour Clock
They tell the same time. They are written and spoken differently.
24-hour clock
Written with a colon — 15:20 — and read as “fifteen twenty”. It is the everyday civil format across most of Europe, Latin America and Asia.
Military time
Written as four digits with no colon — 1520 — and read as “fifteen twenty hours”. Leading zeros are spoken too: 0700 is “zero seven hundred hours”.
That is the entire difference. Every chart row above works for both.
Where Military Time Is Used
Armed forces and aviation
Flight plans, watch rotations and mission orders can never carry an AM/PM misread. Four digits remove the ambiguity entirely.
Hospitals and emergency services
Medication times, shift handovers and incident logs are written in 24-hour time so a chart read at 3 AM cannot be confused with 3 PM.
Shift work and logistics
Night shifts cross midnight. Rosters, delivery windows and warehouse slots stay readable when 2300 and 0700 sit in the same column.
International teams
Most of the world already writes 24-hour time. Booking a call at 1500 saves the round of “your afternoon or mine?” messages.
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See the staff time trackerMilitary Time Chart FAQ
1500 military time is 3:00 PM. Because 1500 is past noon, you subtract 12 from the hour: 15 − 12 = 3, then add PM. Spoken aloud it is “fifteen hundred hours”.
1520 military time is 3:20 PM. The first two digits are the hour (15 → 3 PM) and the last two are the minutes, which never change: :20 stays :20.
Midnight is written 0000 at the start of a day. 2400 is occasionally used to mark the end of the previous day, but standard practice is that the day runs from 0000 to 2359 and the next minute is 0000 on a new date.
Read the hour, then the minutes, then “hours”. 1430 is “fourteen thirty hours”. On the exact hour you say “hundred”: 1400 is “fourteen hundred hours”, and leading zeros are spoken, so 0600 is “zero six hundred hours”.
9 PM is 2100 in military time. For any PM hour except 12 PM, add 12 to the hour and drop the colon: 9 + 12 = 21, so 9:45 PM is 2145.
No. Only the hour is converted. 7:45 AM is 0745, 7:45 PM is 1945 — the 45 is identical in both. Military time also uses ordinary minutes, not decimals, so 1530 means half past three, not 15.5 hours.
The times are the same; the notation is not. The 24-hour clock uses a colon and is read plainly — 15:20, “fifteen twenty”. Military time writes four digits with no colon — 1520 — and adds “hours” when spoken.
1200 is noon, the middle of the day. Midnight is 0000. This is the one pair the 12-hour clock genuinely gets wrong for people, since both are written 12:00 there.
A fixed four-digit width means every time is written the same way, sorts correctly in a list and cannot be misread over a radio or in a handwritten log. It is also why 7 AM is written 0700, not 700.
Add 12 to the hour and remove the colon: 1:15 PM → 1315, 6:30 PM → 1830, 11:59 PM → 2359. The only exception is 12 PM, which stays 1200.
Most of Europe, Latin America, Russia, China, India and much of Africa write civil time on a 24-hour clock. The 12-hour AM/PM clock is standard mainly in the United States, Canada, Australia, the Philippines and a handful of other countries.
Yes. Use the Print chart button above — the page prints just the 24-hour chart on a single sheet, with no ads, no account and no email required.