How Long Does It Take to Read the Whole Quran?

Reading the whole Quran from Al-Fatihah to An-Nas takes about 20 hours for many readers, at a steady pace of around two minutes a page. Depending on how you read, it can be as little as 15 hours or more than 30.

That may be less than you expected. Twenty hours is about forty minutes a day for a month, or under four minutes a day for a year.

The Quran by the numbers

Most of the world reads from the Madinah mushaf, the edition printed in Madinah whose 604 pages most Quran apps follow, including ours. In that edition:

Pages	604
Juz (parts)	30, of about 20 pages each
Surahs	114
Verses	6,236 (in the most widely used count)

Other printings lay the text out differently. South Asian editions with 13 or 15 lines a page, for example, have more or fewer pages for the same text, so the time per page changes but the total reading time stays about the same.

How long a full reading takes at different paces

Pace	Time for the whole Quran	Per day for 30 days
1½ minutes a page	about 15 hours	about 30 minutes
2 minutes a page	about 20 hours	about 40 minutes
2½ minutes a page	about 25 hours	about 50 minutes
3 minutes a page	about 30 hours	about 1 hour

What changes your pace

• Fluency in Arabic. If you read Arabic easily, you will be at the faster end. If you are still learning the letters, a page can take several minutes, and that is perfectly fine.
• Reciting aloud with tajweed. Measured recitation, with its lengthenings and pauses, is slower than silent reading.
• Reading the translation. Reading each verse in translation as well as in Arabic can double the time, but it is also how many people come to understand what they read.
• Pausing to reflect. Stopping on a verse that moves you is part of reading, not a delay.
• Distractions. Notifications are the hidden cost. Ten pages read with the phone face-down often take less time than five read between messages.

Measure your own pace

The two-minute figure is a starting point, not a standard. To find yours:

Once you know your minutes per page, you can plan by time rather than guesswork. If you have ten calm minutes after Fajr and read at two minutes a page, five pages a day fits, and five pages a day finishes the Quran in about four months.

Can you read it in one sitting?

Some people ask how long it would take to read the whole Quran at once. The Prophet ﷺ advised against rushing through it so quickly that its meaning is lost:

The goal of a khatm is not speed. For most of us, a pace of a month or more leaves room to read with attention and to keep the habit going afterwards.

What it means per day

Finish in	Pages a day	At 2 minutes a page
1 month	21	about 40 minutes
2 months	11	about 20 minutes
3 months	7	about 15 minutes
6 months	4	about 8 minutes
1 year	2	about 4 minutes

For any other timeline, or to start from the page you are on now, the pages a day guide and the reading planner do the arithmetic for you.

In short

A complete reading of the Quran takes around 20 hours, between 15 and 30 for most readers. Measure your own pace, decide how many minutes you can give each day, and let those minutes, kept up day after day, carry you to the end.