2005 · CBS · Comedy
How long does it take to watch How I Met Your Mother?
How I Met Your Mother takes about 78 hours to watch: 208 episodes across 9 seasons, 4,690 minutes in all.
Updated October 2, 2026
- Episodes
- 208
- Seasons
- 9
- Per episode
- 23 min
- Status
- Ended in 2014
A father recounts to his children - through a series of flashbacks - the journey he and his four best friends took leading up to him meeting their mother.
Season by season
| Season | Length | Hours | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 8.1h | 22 eps | |
| Season 2 | 8.3h | 22 eps | |
| Season 3 | 7.4h | 20 eps | |
| Season 4 | 8.9h | 24 eps | |
| Season 5 | 9.2h | 24 eps | |
| Season 6 | 9.1h | 24 eps | |
| Season 7 | 9.2h | 24 eps | |
| Season 8 | 9.0h | 24 eps | |
| Season 9 | 9.0h | 24 eps |
Longest: season 5, 9.2 hours. Shortest: season 3, 7.4 hours.
At your pace
- 1 episode a night
- 208 nights, about 7 months
- 3 episodes a night
- 70 nights, about 2 months
- Weekend binges, 8 hours a day
- 5 weekends
- Straight through, no sleep
- 3 days, 6 hours
Counts aired regular-season episodes only; specials are excluded. Runtimes come from TMDB, so totals can differ from other sources.
How it holds up
- Best-rated season
- Season 4 7.8
- Lowest-rated season
- Season 9 7.1
- The finale
- Rated 6.0 against a 7.5 series average
Season scores are vote-weighted averages of TMDB episode ratings.
The details
- Status
- Ended in 2014
- Network
- CBS
- Genres
- Comedy
- First aired
- 2005
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