Twilight Word Count — How Many Words?

Updated April 2026
118,975 Words
498 Pages
24 Chapters
8 hr 20 min Reading Time

Twilight contains approximately 118,975 words across 498 pages. At an average reading speed of 238 words per minute, it would take about 8 hr 20 min to read from cover to cover.

The book is divided into 24 chapters, with an average of approximately 4,957 words per chapter.

Complete Series Word Count

Book Word Count Reading Time
Twilight 118,975 ~8 hr 20 min
New Moon 132,807 ~9 hr 19 min
Eclipse 147,930 ~10 hr 22 min
Breaking Dawn 192,196 ~13 hr 28 min
Total Series 591,908 ~41 hr 28 min

The complete series totals 591,908 words, which would take approximately 41 hours and 28 minutes to read at 238 words per minute.

How Twilight Compares

Book Word Count Pages
Animal Farm 29,966 112
Brave New World 63,766 288
Charlotte's Web 31,938 184
Diary of a Wimpy Kid 19,784 217
Dune 187,240 688
Fahrenheit 451 46,118 158
Twilight 118,975 498

At 118,975 words, Twilight is longer than the average novel. It falls in the range of epic fiction and complex narratives that reward patient readers with deeper character development and world-building.

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