BINGE CALCULATOR
How long will it take to finish?
Pick a show, anime or book series, say how much time you have each day, and get the total hours and the date you'll finish. Free, and no account needed.
Breaking Bad
48.6 hours
At 2 hours a day you would finish in 25 days.
62 episodes at 47 minutes each.
Worked examples
Totals for complete series. Click a title to load it into the calculator.
TV shows
Five seasons. The final season aired in two halves, both counted here.
- Length
- 62 episodes × 47 min
- Total
- 49 hours
- 1 h a day
- 49 days
- 2 h a day
- 25 days
- 4 h a day
- 13 days
Six seasons, set mostly before Breaking Bad.
- Length
- 63 episodes × 46 min
- Total
- 48 hours
- 1 h a day
- 49 days
- 2 h a day
- 25 days
- 4 h a day
- 13 days
Six seasons, the last one split into two parts.
- Length
- 86 episodes × 55 min
- Total
- 79 hours
- 1 h a day
- 79 days
- 2 h a day
- 40 days
- 4 h a day
- 20 days
Five seasons, each one following a different part of Baltimore.
- Length
- 60 episodes × 58 min
- Total
- 58 hours
- 1 h a day
- 58 days
- 2 h a day
- 29 days
- 4 h a day
- 15 days
Eight seasons. Later episodes run longer, so this is a little on the low side.
- Length
- 73 episodes × 57 min
- Total
- 69 hours
- 1 h a day
- 70 days
- 2 h a day
- 35 days
- 4 h a day
- 18 days
Seven seasons.
- Length
- 92 episodes × 47 min
- Total
- 72 hours
- 1 h a day
- 73 days
- 2 h a day
- 37 days
- 4 h a day
- 19 days
Six seasons. A long one, but the episodes are short without ads.
- Length
- 121 episodes × 43 min
- Total
- 87 hours
- 1 h a day
- 87 days
- 2 h a day
- 44 days
- 4 h a day
- 22 days
Ten seasons of half-hour episodes.
- Length
- 236 episodes × 22 min
- Total
- 87 hours
- 1 h a day
- 87 days
- 2 h a day
- 44 days
- 4 h a day
- 22 days
Nine seasons.
- Length
- 201 episodes × 22 min
- Total
- 74 hours
- 1 h a day
- 74 days
- 2 h a day
- 37 days
- 4 h a day
- 19 days
Fifteen seasons, one of the longest runs on this list.
- Length
- 327 episodes × 42 min
- Total
- 229 hours
- 1 h a day
- 229 days
- 2 h a day
- 115 days
- 4 h a day
- 58 days
Anime
One continuous series, about five cours.
- Length
- 64 episodes × 24 min
- Total
- 26 hours
- 1 h a day
- 26 days
- 2 h a day
- 13 days
- 4 h a day
- 7 days
Short enough for a long weekend at four hours a day.
- Length
- 37 episodes × 23 min
- Total
- 14 hours
- 1 h a day
- 15 days
- 2 h a day
- 8 days
- 4 h a day
- 4 days
The film is not counted.
- Length
- 26 episodes × 24 min
- Total
- 10 hours
- 1 h a day
- 11 days
- 2 h a day
- 6 days
- 4 h a day
- 3 days
The 2011 adaptation, start to finish.
- Length
- 148 episodes × 23 min
- Total
- 57 hours
- 1 h a day
- 57 days
- 2 h a day
- 29 days
- 4 h a day
- 15 days
The original broadcast run, not Kai.
- Length
- 291 episodes × 24 min
- Total
- 116 hours
- 1 h a day
- 117 days
- 2 h a day
- 59 days
- 4 h a day
- 30 days
220 plus 500 episodes, filler included. Skipping the filler cuts it down a lot.
- Length
- 720 episodes × 23 min
- Total
- 276 hours
- 1 h a day
- 276 days
- 2 h a day
- 138 days
- 4 h a day
- 69 days
Books
At 40 pages an hour, 300 words a page.
About 1.08 million words across the series.
- Length
- about 3,613 pages
- Total
- 90 hours
- 1 h a day
- 91 days
- 2 h a day
- 46 days
- 4 h a day
- 23 days
The three volumes with their appendices, not counting The Hobbit.
- Length
- about 1,600 pages
- Total
- 40 hours
- 1 h a day
- 40 days
- 2 h a day
- 20 days
- 4 h a day
- 10 days
The five published novels.
- Length
- about 5,900 pages
- Total
- 148 hours
- 1 h a day
- 148 days
- 2 h a day
- 74 days
- 4 h a day
- 37 days
Fourteen novels and the prequel, about 4.4 million words.
- Length
- about 14,667 pages
- Total
- 367 hours
- 1 h a day
- 367 days
- 2 h a day
- 184 days
- 4 h a day
- 92 days
The first novel only.
- Length
- about 627 pages
- Total
- 16 hours
- 1 h a day
- 16 days
- 2 h a day
- 8 days
- 4 h a day
- 4 days
How the numbers are worked out
For a show, the total is episodes times the length of one episode. The episode lengths in the examples are what a streaming copy runs without ads, including the opening and the credits. A 22-minute sitcom was a 30-minute broadcast slot; a 47-minute drama was an hour. If you skip intros and "previously on" recaps, tick the box and the calculator takes about two minutes off each episode, which adds up over a long show: across 236 episodes of Friends it is nearly eight hours.
For books, the total is pages divided by how many pages you read in an hour. The default is 40 pages an hour, which is roughly 200 words a minute on a page of about 300 words. Page counts change a lot between editions, so the book examples start from word counts instead. A dense fantasy paperback can carry 400 words a page and a large-print edition fewer than 250, so if you time yourself for ten minutes and multiply by six you will get a better pace than the default.
The finish date counts the start day as day one and only counts the days of the week you chose. Nobody keeps to a schedule exactly, so treat the date as a target rather than a promise.
Three things that change the answer most
Daily time matters more than anything else. Going from one hour a day to two halves the number of days. Going from two to three only cuts a third, and from three to four a quarter, so the first extra hour is the one that counts.
Weekends only stretches things a long way. Two hours on Saturday and two on Sunday is four hours a week. At that pace The Wire takes about 15 weeks, against about a month at two hours every evening.
Filler and skippable episodes. Long-running anime often have filler arcs that are not in the original manga. Fan-made filler lists can take a big share off the total for shows like Naruto, Bleach and One Piece. Take the filler count off the episodes box and the calculator does the rest.
Keep track while you binge
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Questions
How long does it take to watch Breaking Bad?
About 49 hours: 62 episodes at around 47 minutes each. At two hours a day that is 25 days.
How long does it take to read all of Harry Potter?
About 90 hours at 200 words a minute, or about 72 hours at 250. The seven books come to roughly 1.08 million words.
Does the calculator count ads?
No. Episode lengths are for streaming copies without ad breaks. Add a few minutes per episode if you watch with ads.
Where do the lengths for looked-up titles come from?
From title pages on OmniTrackr, which read episode lists from TVmaze and MyAnimeList, page counts from Open Library and other facts from Wikidata. If a title has not been looked up yet, type the numbers in yourself.