YouTube Video Duration Checker
Check the exact length of a single YouTube video, Short or youtu.be link, and see what it becomes at each faster playback speed.
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Paste the video link and press "Check Video Duration". You get the exact length in both plain language and standard clock format, plus the watch time at each faster playback speed.
The result shows the length at 1.25x, 1.5x, 1.75x and 2x side by side. A 12:48 video becomes 6:24 at 2x. You can also enter any custom speed between 0.25x and 4x.
Yes. Shorts links (youtube.com/shorts/...) work exactly like regular watch links, as do youtu.be short links and embed URLs.
The most common reasons are that the video is private, deleted, region restricted, or that the link is truncated so the 11-character video ID is incomplete. Live streams and upcoming premieres have no final duration yet.
This tool answers a single-video question and shows the duration in clock format, which is what you want when you are deciding whether to watch something now. The playlist calculator adds up many videos and includes the daily watch planner and the Excel export.
No signup is required. The site uses its shared YouTube API access for normal checks.