# Hour (disambiguation)

An hour is a unit of measurement of time.
(The) Hour(s) may also refer to:

## Measurement

* Hour angle, the measurement of angle in units of hours
** Right ascension, the astronomical unit of measure of angle
* light hour or hour, distance equivalent to that travelled by light in vacuum in one hour

### Time

* Decimal hour, an alternate form of hour time
* Carnegie Unit and Student Hour or credit-hours, a measurement of completed coursework at a college or university.
* man-hour or hour, a measurement of work done by people
* hour unit in time-based currency
* hour meter or hours, a device of measuring hours of usage
* hour hand or hour, a arm on a clock
* Chinese hour in traditional Chinese timekeeping

## Religion

* Canonical hours or liturgical hours, divisions of the day in Christianity
** Book of Hours, a printed book or often a manuscript containing prayers for such hours (e.g., the "Hours of Catherine of Cleves")
* Day of Resurrection, the Day of Judgement in Islam, also known as "The Hour"
* Horae (Hours), deities in Greek mythology, goddesses of the seasons
* Relative hour in Judaism, a variable length hour by splitting daylight and nighttime into 12 hour segments each

## Art, entertainment, and media

* The Hours (engraving), by Francesco Bartolozzi, based on a painting by Maria Cosway

### Literature

* The Hours (novel), a 1998 novel by Michael Cunningham
* Mrs Dalloway, a novel by Virginia Woolf that had the working title "The Hours"

#### Periodicals

* The Hour (newspaper), a daily newspaper by in Norwalk, Connecticut, U.S.
* Hour Community, a weekly entertainment newspaper published in Montreal, earlier known as Hour

### Television

* Hour Magazine, a 1980–1988 syndicated talk show hosted by Gary Collins
* The Hour (2009 TV programme), a 2009–2011 Scottish early evening lifestyle television programme, broadcast on STV
* The Hour (2011 TV series), a 2011–2012 British television drama series set in 1956 that aired on BBC
* George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight, a 2005–2014 Canadian late-night talk show known from 2005 to 2010 as The Hour

### Films

* The Hours (film), a 2002 drama film directed by Stephen Daldry
* Hours (2013 film), a 2013 thriller film

### Music

* The Hours (opera), 2022 opera by Kevin Puts

#### Bands

* The Hours (band)
* Band of the Hour, University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, USA

#### Albums

* Hours (David Bowie album), a 1999 album by British musician David Bowie
* Hours (Funeral for a Friend album), a 2005 album by Welsh rock band Funeral for a Friend
* The Hours (soundtrack), the soundtrack composed by Philip Glass to the film of the same name
* Humanity: Hour I, 2007 album by the Scorpions

#### Songs

* "Hours", a song by TV on the Radio from the album Return to Cookie Mountain
* "The Hours", a song by Beach House from the album Bloom
* "The Hours", a song by Handsome Boy Modeling School from the album White People
* "Hour I", 2007 song by the Scorpions off the eponymous album Humanity: Hour I

## Places

* Hours, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, a commune in France
* Hour, a part of the Walloon municipality of Houyet in Belgium
* Hour, Iran

## Sports

* Hour record, the hour-long bicycle race
* One hour run, the athletics event