Fahrenheit 451
At your speed≈ 4½ hrs
Pages227
Audiobook≈ 7½ hrs
Every reading time on the site updates to your pace. Page counts are an estimate, so treat the hours as a good guide, not a stopwatch.
227 pages works out to roughly 68,000 words. At an average 250 words a minute that is 4½ hrs — a day's reading.
Readers on Hardcover rate it 3.93 out of 5, from 5,205 ratings.
Worth-it score 6.7/10 — Worth the time. Readers 6.5 (Hardcover's 3.93★ from 5,205 ratings) + length 0.2 = 6.7. How the score works →
How long does it take to read Fahrenheit 451?
Fahrenheit 451 is 227 pages, or roughly 68,000 words. How long that takes depends on how fast you read:
| Your pace | Words per minute | Time to finish |
|---|---|---|
| Slow | 175 | 6½ hrs |
| Average | 250 | 4½ hrs |
| Fast | 400 | 3 hrs |
Estimated at about 300 words per page. Most adults read between 200 and 300 words a minute — set your own pace and every time on the site adjusts. Prefer to listen? At a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute the audiobook runs about 7½ hrs — an estimate from the word count, since narrators vary.
Common questions
- How long does it take to read Fahrenheit 451?
- About 4½ hrs at an average reading speed of 250 words per minute. Fahrenheit 451 runs 227 pages, roughly 68,000 words — so at a slower 175 wpm it is nearer 6½ hrs, and at 400 wpm closer to 3 hrs.
- How many pages is Fahrenheit 451?
- 227 pages, which is about 68,000 words and 4½ hrs of reading. Editions vary, so we use the figure two of our sources agree on.
- Is Fahrenheit 451 worth reading?
- We score it 6.7 out of 10 for the time it takes — worth the time. Readers on Hardcover rate it 3.93 out of 5 from 5,205 ratings, which counts for 6.5; at about 4½ hrs at an average pace it earns +0.2 for being short.
- How long is the Fahrenheit 451 audiobook?
- About 7½ hrs, estimated from the 68,000 words at a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute. Real editions vary by narrator, usually by well under an hour.
From the publisher
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house?…
The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books. The classic dystopian novel of a post-literate future, Fahrenheit 451 stands alongside Orwell’s 1984 and Huxley’s Brave New World as a prophetic account of Western civilization’s enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity. Bradbury’s powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel which, decades on from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.
