YouTube Playlist Length Calculator
Paste a playlist link and see how long it really is — the total in hours and minutes, at any playback speed, for the whole list or just the videos you have left.
The link is sent to our server, which reads the playlist from YouTube — a video URL with list= in it works too. Nothing is stored.
How it works
How to calculate a YouTube playlist’s length?
Paste the playlist link
From the address bar or the Share button — youtube.com/playlist?list=… A video link that carries list= works too, as does the bare playlist ID.
Pass the quick check
One tap proves you’re human. Usually it clears itself.
Read the total
Every video’s length is fetched from YouTube and added up: the total in hours and minutes, the average video, and the total at 1.5× and 2×.
Narrow it down
Pick a playback speed, or set “only videos 12 to 40” to see how long the part you have left will take. Copy the summary in one press.
Why it exists
YouTube counts videos. You want hours.
Open any playlist and YouTube tells you it has 47 videos, and nothing about whether that is two hours or forty. The number that decides whether you start a course tonight or block out a month is the one it leaves out. This page fetches every video’s length from YouTube and adds them up, so the answer is exact rather than “about ten minutes each, so…”.
The two things people do next are built in. Watching at 1.5× or 2× — pick the speed and the total moves with it. Already twenty videos in — set the range to the videos that remain and the total becomes the time you actually have left.
Spec sheet
What you get back
The whole playlist, to the second
Every video is counted individually, not estimated from an average, so the total is what YouTube itself would show if it added them up.
At any playback speed
0.5× to 2× on one press, or type 1.6× if that is what you actually watch at. The total, the average and every row update at once.
Only the videos you mean
From video 12 to video 40, or from 30 to the end — the range fields cut the total down to the part of the playlist you have not watched yet.
Every video listed with a running total
Position, title, length and the running clock — handy for finding where the halfway point falls or which lecture ends the first ten hours.
Playlists up to 5,000 videos
A ten-video series or a channel’s whole uploads playlist. Deleted and private videos are reported as hidden rather than silently dropped.
Free, no signup, no daily cap
No account, no email, no counter that stops you after three playlists. Come back and check the next course straight away.
Where it pays off
When to use it?
Size a course before you start it
A 60-lecture programming playlist is either a weekend or a semester. Knowing which decides whether you begin at all.
Plan a study schedule
31 hours at 1.5× is 21 hours — an hour a day for three weeks. The speed presets do that arithmetic for you.
Check if a series fits the evening
A let’s-play, a lecture series, a documentary run: see whether the rest of it fits the time you have before you press play.
Describe your own playlist
Publishing a course or a compilation? “12 videos, 4 h 20 min total” in the description tells people what they are committing to.
Questions