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How many pages is Howl's Moving Castle?

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones has a median of 306 pages across 10 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 234 to 336 pages.

Median pages
306
10 editions counted
Range
212–448
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
5.4h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
84k
at 275 words per page

How long will Howl's Moving Castle take you?

Starts at the fiction average of 260 words per minute and 275 words per page. Move the slider to your own speed.

Reading time
5 h 24 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.

20030040019902000201020201986: 212 pages1988: 212 pages1991: 212 pages2001: 336 pages2001: 336 pages2004: 336 pages2005: 301 pages2008: 448 pages2009: 304 pages2020: 309 pagesmedian 306
200300400200020201986: 212 pages1988: 212 pages1991: 212 pages2001: 336 pages2001: 336 pages2004: 336 pages2005: 301 pages2008: 448 pages2009: 304 pages2020: 309 pagesmedian 306
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 10 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 37 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2020Nowa BaśńPaperback309OL30613283M
2009HarperCollins Publishers Limited–304OL28440193M
2008EosPaperback448OL9952961M
2005HarperCollins Children's Books–301OL22732692M
2004HarperCollins Publishers–336OL37348698M
2001Eos–336OL7291919M
2001Greenwillow–336OL7276786M
1991Teens Mandarin–212OL17316128M

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Questions

How many pages is Howl's Moving Castle?
About 306 pages: that is the median of 10 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 212 to 448 pages.
How long does it take to read Howl's Moving Castle?
About 5 h 24 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 11 days.
How many words is Howl's Moving Castle?
Roughly 84,000 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)).