Hours to days
One hour is 0.041666666667 days, and this shows the working rather than just the answer. Nothing you type here leaves your browser — it is worked out on your own device, so there is nothing to send and nothing to log.
The factor
One hour is 0.041666666667 days. That is the whole of the conversion: multiply by it, and nothing else happens.
What this page will not claim
It will not call this conversion exact. The factor is right to every figure shown, but at least one of these two units is not defined exactly in terms of the other, so there is a limit to how far the decimals mean anything.
The day is exactly 86,400 seconds. A real solar day wanders by a millisecond or two.
The number in your head
Most people use 0.042 for this, which is the factor to two significant figures. It is high by 0.8% — 8 days too many in every thousand, and 80 in every ten thousand.
Going the other way
The reverse is not this sum backwards in your head. It is a different factor, 24, and dividing by one is not the same as multiplying by a rounded version of the other.
That one is short enough to write down exactly, which is why the conversion feels easier in this direction than the other.
How many of those decimals mean anything
The box above will give you ten decimal places because it can. Whether they mean anything is decided by your measurement, not by the arithmetic.
If you measured to the nearest hour, your figure is already uncertain by half of one — so the answer is uncertain by about 0.020833 days, and every digit past that is decoration. Quoting 0.05144 when you measured with a tape is claiming a precision the tape never had.
Where these two sit
Hours and days both measure time, which is why they can be converted at all. A conversion between families — a length into a weight — is not a conversion, it is a question with a missing quantity in it.
Other conversions from hours
minutes · years (Julian) · weeks · seconds · milliseconds