Add Minutes to Time – Excel & Google Sheets

This tutorial will demonstrate how to add minutes to a time in Excel and Google Sheets.

Add Minutes

In Excel, time is stored as a fractional value where each 1/24th represents one hour of the day. So each 1/1440 represents one minute of the day (24 hours * 60 minutes/hour = 1440 minutes).

=B3/1440

To add a minute add 1/1440 to a time

=B3+(1/1440)

or 59/1440 to add 59 minutes:

=B3+(59/1440)

Add Minute to Now

To add a minute to the current time, add 1/1440 to the NOW Function:

=NOW()+(1/1440)

Add Minutes Google Sheets

All of the above examples work exactly the same in Google Sheets as in Excel.