How long does it take to read The Da Vinci Code?
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown takes about 8 hours 58 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of Robert Langdon series
Previous: Angels & Demons Next: The Lost Symbol
About 8 hours 58 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2003. 489 pages, about 134,475 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 57 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 58 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 36 minutes |
The page count is the median across 203 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 mystery thriller novel by Dan Brown. It is Brown's second novel to include the character Robert Langdon: the first was his 2000 novel Angels & Demons. The Da Vinci Code follows "symbologist" Robert Langdon and cryptologist Sophie Neveu after a murder in the Louvre Museum in Paris causes them to become involved in a battle between the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over the possibility of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene having had a child together.
Subjects: Suspense & Thriller, Spiritual Fiction, hieros gamos, Priory of Sion, Holy Grail, Vitruvian Man
