Add Hours to Time – Excel & Google Sheets

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

Add Hour

In Excel, time is stored as a fractional value where each 1/24th represents one hour of the day.

To add an hour add 1/24 to a time

=B3+(1/24)

or 12/24 to add 12 hours:

=B3+(12/24)

Add Hour to Now

To add an hour to the current time, add 1/24 to the NOW Function:

=NOW()+(1/24)

Add Hours Google Sheets

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