Military Time Chart: All 24 Hours With AM/PM Equivalents

It is 1830 on the schedule board and someone still asks what that is in real time. The 24-hour military clock only has twenty-four numbers to keep straight, but flipping any single one of them into the 12-hour version you'd actually say out loud takes a beat of mental math — subtract 12, remember AM or PM, don't trip over noon. This chart removes the beat: find the military time on the left, read the 12-hour equivalent on the right, done.

Below is every hour from 0000 to 2359 in one table, the three-block trick that lets you place any entry without counting, the specific times people search for most, and the reading mistakes that catch people even with the chart open in front of them. For the exact rule set behind the conversion, see the full guide to converting military time to standard time — this page is built to be scanned, not studied.

Every hour on the clock, mapped to its 12-hour AM/PM equivalent. Morning hours are marked green, afternoon and evening hours amber.

This table stops at the top of each hour on purpose — it is a reference chart, not a converter. For anything that falls between two rows, such as 1447 or 0918, keep the minutes exactly as written and convert only the hour; the step-by-step conversion guide walks through that rule in full, or the military time converter will do it for you instantly.

Every entry in the military-time column follows the same three rules: four digits, no colon, no AM or PM. The first two digits are the hour, 00 through 23; the last two are the minutes, 00 through 59. Hours under 10 always keep their leading zero — 6:00 AM is written 0600, never 600 — because a three-digit number would be easy to misread at a glance.

That formatting is what separates "military time" from the plain 24-hour clock: the 24-hour clock keeps the colon (06:00), while military notation drops it. The two describe the same underlying time. If you want the full definition and background, see what military time is; for how each entry is actually said out loud — 0600 as "zero six hundred" — see how to say military time.

You don't need to run the full conversion rule on every lookup. Before your eye even reaches the table, sort the military time into one of three blocks:

• 0000–1159: this is the AM half of the day. Drop the leading zero if there is one and read the number as-is, with 0000 as the one exception — it's midnight, not "zero o'clock."
• 1200: this is noon, on its own — the hour number doesn't change, only the label (12:00 PM).
• 1300–2359: this is the PM half. Subtract 12 from the first two digits to get the 12-hour number, and the label is always PM.

Most chart lookups cluster around a handful of everyday moments rather than the full 24 hours. Here are the ones that come up constantly, pulled out on their own.

Notice 2359, not 2400, is the last entry of the day — a time never actually reads 2400 in practice, since the day resets to 0000 the instant it would hit that mark. For a deeper look at that exact boundary and why midnight gets written the way it does, see what 0000 means in military time.

A chart removes the need to calculate, but it doesn't remove every way to misread it. The same handful of slips show up again and again:

• Treating 0000 like a stand-in for noon. It isn't — 0000 is midnight, the start of the day, while 1200 is noon, the middle of it. They sit at opposite ends of the table.
• Dropping the leading zero mentally. Reading 0800 as "800" and hesitating over whether that's morning or something else. The leading zero is part of the number, not decoration.
• Skimming only the first two digits. 1400 and 1440 share the same hour but land 40 minutes apart — 2:00 PM versus 2:40 PM. Read all four digits, every time.
• Losing your place on a printed row. On a dense table it's easy to read across the wrong line, especially near the noon/afternoon split. Anchor on the bold divider between 1159 and 1200 before reading across.
• Assuming 2400 will appear. It won't, on this chart or any correctly built one — the day ends at 2359 and the next one begins at 0000.

Because it's a fixed lookup table rather than something that needs recalculating, this chart works well as something you keep nearby instead of searching for each time. A few common uses: taped inside a duty binder or ops board where shift times are called out in military notation all day; pinned in an ESL or aviation-ground-school classroom while students build fluency reading the format; printed as a quick-reference card for on-call rosters and timesheets that log hours in 24-hour or military form; or saved to a phone for travel and logistics contexts — rail, military transport, and much of the world outside North America — where posted schedules are written this way by default.

The table above prints cleanly as-is. For a version laid out specifically for printing, with larger type and no surrounding article text, use the dedicated military time chart tool.