17 Minute Timer

Press Start to count down 17 minutes.

This free 17 minute timer counts down 17 minutes with a shrinking red disc you can read at a glance. 17 minutes is 1,020 seconds (one thousand and twenty seconds). It fits a study block or a longer guided meditation.

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What a 17 minute timer is good for

Seventeen minutes is a little unusual, which makes it useful for anyone who wants to step away from the round numbers. It is a comfortable length for a longer meditation and a solid single-topic study block.

A study block

Seventeen minutes on a single topic followed by a short break is a steady rhythm for revision days.

Guided meditation

Many guided meditations and yoga nidra recordings run for fifteen to twenty minutes. Use the timer once you can guide yourself.

Roasting vegetables

Thin asparagus, cherry tomatoes and sliced courgette roast in about seventeen minutes in a hot oven.

A brisk walk

A brisk walk of about seventeen minutes covers close to two kilometres.

To pace yourself, glance at the disc rather than the numbers. With the 17 minute timer running, half the colour has gone after 8 minutes 30 seconds, and when only a quarter is left you have 4 minutes 15 seconds to wrap up. Open fullscreen if the timer needs to be read across a room, and add a label so everyone knows what the 17 minutes are for.

How to use the 17 minute timer

  1. It is ready

    The dial is already set to 17 minutes. To change it, drag the disc, tap a preset or open Custom.

  2. Press Start

    Or press the Space bar. The red disc shrinks back towards 12 o’clock as the time runs down.

  3. Watch the disc

    Read the time left at a glance, or open fullscreen for a big dial that fills the screen.

  4. Time’s up

    Your alarm plays until you press Stop. Press Reset or R to run the same time again.

17 minutes in other units

17 minutes equals
Seconds1,020
Minutes17
Hours0.2833
Fraction of a day0.0118

Why use this timer

Why a visual timer helps

A shrinking disc turns time into something you can see. You read how much is left at a glance, without doing sums on a clock, and an invisible deadline feels less stressful when you can watch it approach. That is why visual timers are a staple in classrooms and are widely used by people with ADHD and autistic children and adults. Read our guide to using a visual timer, how it helps with ADHD time blindness, classroom transitions and autism.

Why this timer is accurate

The countdown is anchored to your device clock rather than counted in animation frames. It does not drift if you switch tabs or your screen sleeps: it keeps running in the background and still sounds the alarm on time. When you come back, the disc jumps straight to the correct position.

Frequently asked questions

There are 1,020 seconds in 17 minutes. That is 0.2833 of an hour, or one thousand and twenty seconds written out.

A single-topic revision block, a longer self-guided meditation, roasting quick vegetables in the oven, or a brisk two kilometre walk.

Yes. The 17 minute countdown is anchored to your device clock rather than counted frame by frame, so it stays accurate in a background tab and the alarm still fires when the 17 minutes are up.

No. The 17 minute timer runs in your browser on phone, tablet and desktop. It is free, and there is no account, app or download.

Yes. Press the fullscreen button or the F key. The dial fills the screen, so the remaining part of the 17 minutes is readable from the back of the room.

Yes, once this page has loaded. Nothing is sent over the network while the 17 minutes count down, so a dropped connection will not stop the timer.

Roasted asparagus, cherry tomatoes and sliced courgette, a tray of oven chips from frozen at high heat, or white rice simmered with the lid on.

When the 17 minutes are up the disc is empty, the screen shows Time’s up! and your alarm plays until you press Stop. It stops by itself after five minutes.

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