How Much Time Am I Losing?

A few minutes a day, turned into hours and days a year.

100% private — every calculation happens in your browser. Nothing is uploaded to a server.

Hours per year

Full days per year

Hours per week

Hours per month

Full days over 10 years

What if...?

What does this cost in money too? Curious what you could afford instead?

What does a daily habit really cost you in time?

Ninety minutes a day doesn't sound like much — until you see it as 22.8 full days a year. Small, repeated blocks of time are easy to underestimate because they never show up as one big number; they arrive in 15 and 30-minute pieces, spread across months.

This tool does one thing: unit conversion. You enter an activity and how many minutes a day it takes, and it shows the same amount of time as hours per week, per month, per year, and as full 24-hour days — plus what share of your entire year that represents.

It doesn't tell you whether the activity is worth it — only you can judge that. It just makes the real scale of the time visible, the same way DecideWorth's other tools turn a price into hours of work or years of saving.

Frequently asked questions

How is this calculated?

Minutes per day × 365.2425 days in a year, converted to hours (÷ 60) and to full 24-hour days (÷ 24). It's a straightforward unit conversion, not a model of how you actually spend time.

Does it account for weekends or days I skip the activity?

No — it assumes the daily average you enter is consistent. If an activity is weekdays-only, roughly multiply your daily minutes by 5/7 before entering it for a closer estimate.

Is this telling me to stop the activity?

No. DecideWorth doesn't make that judgment — it only shows the real yearly scale of a daily habit so you can decide for yourself whether it matches what you'd choose to spend that time on.

Can I use this for a positive habit, like exercise?

Yes — the calculation works the same whether the activity is one you want to reduce or one you're proud of keeping up.

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