Saroses
The saros is an eclipse cycle of about 18 years and 11 days.
Convert saroses to any time unit
1 saros = 6,585.3211 days
Quick facts
- Unit
- Saros (plural: saroses)
- Measures
- Time / Duration
- System
- Astronomical
- Equals
- 568,971,743.04 seconds
- Definition
- About 6,585.32 days (18 years 11 days 8 hours).
1 saros in other units
| Days | 6,585.3211 d |
| Hours | 158,047.7064 h |
| Minutes | 9,482,862.384 min |
| Seconds | 568,971,743 s |
| Years | 18.02999678 yr |
| Months | 216.3599614 mo |
| Weeks | 940.7601571 wk |
| Milliseconds | 568,971,743,000 ms |
What is a saros?
The saros is an eclipse cycle of about 18 years and 11 days. Eclipses separated by one saros are almost identical, which let Babylonian astronomers predict them.
Where the saros sits among time units
The saros is number 75 of 101 on our scale of time units, ordered from smallest to largest.
Saroses in real life
One saros is about 4.5 presidential terms, or about 36 school years, or about 25% of a human lifetime, or about 223 lunar months.
Top saros conversions
Convert saroses to all 100 other units
Everyday
- saros to d
- saros to h
- saros to min
- saros to s
- saros to yr
- saros to mo
- saros to wk
- saros to c
- saros to dec
- saros to ka
- saros to fn
- saros to Q
- saros to common year
- saros to leap year
- saros to semester
- saros to 30-day month
- saros to score (20 years)
Metric (SI)
- saros to ms
- saros to µs
- saros to ns
- saros to ps
- saros to fs
- saros to as
- saros to cs
- saros to ks
- saros to ds
- saros to Gs
- saros to Ms
- saros to zs
- saros to ys
- saros to Ts
Astronomical
- saros to a
- saros to sidereal day
- saros to synodic month
- saros to tropical year
- saros to Ma
- saros to sidereal year
- saros to Mars sol
- saros to galactic year
- saros to Ga
- saros to sidereal month
- saros to Mars year
- saros to Metonic cycle
- saros to Platonic year
- saros to anomalistic year
- saros to draconic year
- saros to Jupiter day
- saros to Sothic cycle
- saros to Venus day
- saros to anomalistic month
- saros to draconic month
- saros to Callippic cycle
- saros to Gaussian year
- saros to Hipparchic cycle
- saros to Pluto year
- saros to sidereal second
- saros to tropical month
Scientific
- saros to tP
- saros to jiffy (electronics)
- saros to S
- saros to shake
- saros to ħ/Eh
- saros to jiffy (physics)
Historical & cultural
- saros to generation
- saros to olympiad
- saros to baktun
- saros to decimal hour
- saros to 刻
- saros to 时辰
- saros to .beat
- saros to decimal minute
- saros to decimal second
- saros to ghati
- saros to jubilee
- saros to kalpa
- saros to lustrum
- saros to moment (medieval)
- saros to muhurta
- saros to yuga
- saros to cd
- saros to 更
- saros to helek
- saros to indiction
- saros to kalabtun
- saros to katun
- saros to kin (Maya)
- saros to mahayuga
- saros to manvantara
- saros to piktun
- saros to triennium
- saros to tun (Maya)
- saros to vighati
- saros to winal
Everyday comparisons
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Frequently asked questions
What is a saros?
The saros is an eclipse cycle of about 18 years and 11 days.
How is the saros defined?
About 6,585.32 days (18 years 11 days 8 hours).
How many days are in a saros?
One saros equals 6,585.3211 days.
How many hours are in a saros?
One saros equals 158,047.7064 hours.
How many minutes are in a saros?
One saros equals 9,482,862.384 minutes.