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How many pages is Castle in the Air?

Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones has a median of 298 pages across 7 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 203 to 304 pages.

Median pages
298
7 editions counted
Range
199–400
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
5.3h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
82k
at 275 words per page

How long will Castle in the Air take you?

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Reading time
5 h 15 min
At 30 min a day
11 days
At 1 hour a day
6 days

Page count of every edition, by year

Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.

20030040019901995200020051990: 199 pages1991: 199 pages1991: 207 pages2001: 304 pages2001: 304 pages2001: 298 pages2008: 400 pagesmedian 298
200300400199020001990: 199 pages1991: 199 pages1991: 207 pages2001: 304 pages2001: 304 pages2001: 298 pages2008: 400 pagesmedian 298
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 7 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 27 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2008EosPaperback400OL9952960M
2001EosPaperback304OL9247471M
2001GreenwillowHardcover304OL9231495M
2001Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco MediaTurtleback298OL10942654M
1991Greenwillow Books–199OL1870782M
1991Mammoth–207OL17295865M
1990Methuen–199OL17468403M

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Questions

How many pages is Castle in the Air?
About 298 pages: that is the median of 7 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 199 to 400 pages.
How long does it take to read Castle in the Air?
About 5 h 15 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 11 days.
How many words is Castle in the Air?
Roughly 82,000 words, estimated from the median page count at 275 words per page. Open Library does not record word counts, so this is an estimate.

Data: Open Library monthly data dumps (works, editions, authors, reading log, ratings) (Open Library / Internet Archive); How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate (Marc Brysbaert, Journal of Memory and Language 109 (2019)).