How long does it take to read the Twilight series?
Stephenie Meyer · 4 books
At an average reading speed of 250 words a minute, all 4 books of Twilight take about 40 hours to read. The unabridged audiobooks run 65 hours at 1x, or 43 hours at 1.5x.
Each Twilight book is longer than the one before. Twilight itself is about 8 hours at an average pace; Breaking Dawn is over 12.5, more than half as long again.
Average is about 250 WPM. Measure yours in two minutes and every time on this page recalculates.
Every book, timed
| Book | Words | Read | Listen |
|---|---|---|---|
| Twilight | ~119,505 | 7h 58m | 12h 51m |
| New Moon | ~137,950 | 9h 12m | 14h 50m |
| Eclipse | ~152,675 | 10h 11m | 16h 25m |
| Breaking Dawn | ~190,340 | 12h 41m | 20h 28m |
How much to read a day
At 250 words a minute, to finish the whole series:
Have a deadline in mind? The pages-per-day calculator works it out for any date.
How we measured it
Method: audiobook estimate. Estimated from the original unabridged audiobooks narrated by Ilyana Kadushin, with Matt Walters joining her for Breaking Dawn, at 155 words a minute. Lengths were confirmed by at least two of Audible, Libro.fm, Penguin Random House and library catalogues. Midnight Sun, the 2020 retelling from Edward's side, isn't included.
Part of our study of the 100 most popular books, last checked November 2026. Reading times assume steady reading; editions, translations and your own pace all move them.
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Frequently asked questions
How long does it take to read the Twilight series?
About 40 hours at an average reading speed of 250 words a minute: 50 hours at 200 and 33 hours at 300. That covers all 4 books, from Twilight to Breaking Dawn.
How many words are in the Twilight series?
About 600,470 words across 4 books. The longest is Breaking Dawn (190,340); the shortest is Twilight (119,505). That's estimated from the unabridged audiobook at a narration pace of 155 words a minute, so treat it as close, not exact.
How long are the audiobooks?
About 65 hours unabridged at 1x for the whole series: 43h 3m at 1.5x and 32h 17m at 2x.
How many pages a day to finish the Twilight series in a month?
About 73 pages a day, or 1h 21m of reading a day at an average pace. That assumes about 2,184 pages at 275 words a page; real page counts vary by edition.
Which Twilight book is the longest?
Breaking Dawn, at about 190,000 words: roughly 12 hours 41 minutes of reading, or 20 hours 28 minutes as an audiobook.
Does this include Midnight Sun?
No. Midnight Sun retells Twilight from Edward's point of view and came out in 2020. These times cover the four original novels.