How long are podcasts?

The median show on the US Apple Podcasts chart runs 52 minutes an episode. We read the newest episodes in the feeds of 195 chart shows on October 29, 2026, and took each show's median.

That's longer than podcasts in general: CastFox puts the median at 35 minutes across 58,886 shows. The shows people listen to most skew long: 73 of them run an hour or more, and comedy runs longest, at a median of 73 minutes.

How the chart splits

By genre

Genres with at least 5 shows on the chart, longest first. The median of the shows' medians.

The 10 shortest

1. The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex4 min
2. NPR News Now5 min
3. The Bible Recap9 min
4. The Headlines10 min
5. Letters from an American11 min
6. The Red Room11 min
7. The Chad Durfee Show12 min
8. Up First from NPR13 min
9. WSJ What’s News13 min
10. Love Trapped14 min

The 10 longest

1. Acquired240 min
2. The Joe Budden Podcast192 min
3. The Shawn Ryan Show183 min
4. Pardon My Take181 min
5. The Joe Rogan Experience170 min
6. Bourbon with Brad143 min
7. The Bill Simmons Podcast135 min
8. Small Town Murder130 min
9. The Why Files: Operation Podcast127 min
10. The Ramsey Show127 min

Every show

Shortest to longest. Each show's page has its feed, its newest episode and how often it publishes.

1. The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex4 min
2. NPR News Now5 min
3. The Bible Recap9 min
4. The Headlines10 min
5. Letters from an American11 min
6. The Red Room11 min
7. The Chad Durfee Show12 min
8. Up First from NPR13 min
9. WSJ What’s News13 min
10. Love Trapped14 min
11. Going Public With Ross Mandell14 min
12. METRO with Sarah Koenig17 min
13. The MeidasTouch Podcast18 min
14. 3 Takeaways™19 min
15. Morning Wire19 min
16. The NPR Politics Podcast19 min
17. Ada21 min
18. The Journal.21 min
19. Midnight Radio21 min
20. The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)22 min
21. IHIP News24 min
22. Marketplace25 min
23. Inside AsembleAI: DeepTech, AI & Science26 min
24. Makes Sense - with Dr. JC Doornick26 min
25. Today, Explained26 min
26. How Much Can I Make? — Real Jobs. Real Stories. Career Insights27 min
27. Burden of Guilt27 min
28. Morrison Mysteries28 min
29. The Woman in the Woods29 min
30. Planet Money30 min
31. MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories31 min
32. Sold a Story31 min
33. On The Line with Jim Pyne31 min
34. Dateline NBC32 min
35. Radio Rental32 min
36. Park Predators32 min
37. Not Just A Terrible Story33 min
38. Bulwark Takes33 min
39. Dateline Originals34 min
40. 20/2036 min
41. Heart36 min
42. Founder's Story36 min
43. The Moth36 min
44. The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions36 min
45. Prof G Markets36 min
46. The Money Mondays37 min
47. My Mom’s Murder37 min
48. Law of Attraction SECRETS37 min
49. The Daily38 min
50. 48 Hours38 min
51. Over My Dead Body38 min
52. Happy Hour with Ina Garten38 min
53. Radiolab39 min
54. Full Body Chills39 min
55. BABY39 min
56. Serial40 min
57. World War II with Tom Hanks40 min
58. No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups40 min
59. Criminal40 min
60. Nothing much happens: bedtime stories to help you sleep40 min
61. Cruel Summer: The Violent Death of Tiffany Valiante40 min
62. The Dan Le Batard Show41 min
63. History's Greatest Mysteries41 min
64. Betrayal Season 642 min
65. The Jamie Kern Lima Show42 min
66. Snapped: Women Who Murder42 min
67. Table Read42 min
68. Otherworld42 min
69. Notes from the Edge43 min
70. DOUBLE COVERAGE PODCAST43 min
71. The Bryce Crawford Podcast43 min
72. The Builders44 min
73. The Gilded Rage44 min
74. Stuff You Should Know45 min
75. Fresh Air45 min
76. The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons?45 min
77. Bear Brook46 min
78. Bred To Lead47 min
79. Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!47 min
80. Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov47 min
81. BILFPOD47 min
82. Something You Should Know48 min
83. Mick Unplugged49 min
84. Freakonomics Radio49 min
85. Pablo Torre Finds Out49 min
86. StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson49 min
87. Crime Junkie50 min
88. Business MVP50 min
89. Stavvy's World50 min
90. Giggly Squad51 min
91. Murder With My Husband51 min
92. Machine Gods52 min
93. The Dropout52 min
94. All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg52 min
95. The Thyroid (and Hormone) Fixer Podcast: Thyropause, Menopause, Metabolism and How to Fix It52 min
96. Crimes Of Reddit with Sabrina Deana-Roga & Alexis Linkletter52 min
97. True Crime All The Time Unsolved52 min
98. Watch What Crappens52 min
99. The Room Podcast53 min
100. The Bobby Bones Show53 min
101. We Fixed It, You're Welcome54 min
102. True Crime All The Time54 min
103. Rotten Mango54 min
104. Fantasy Footballers - Fantasy Football Podcast54 min
105. Criminology54 min
106. The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk55 min
107. The Ezra Klein Show55 min
108. From Underdog to Entrepreneur: Building Dreams with Pat Miller55 min
109. In The Dark56 min
110. Call Her Daddy56 min
111. Finding Peak with Ryan Hanley57 min
112. Proven Podcast57 min
113. We're Out of Time57 min
114. The Bulwark Daily57 min
115. Morbid58 min
116. The Code To Winning58 min
117. Biohack-it58 min
118. Passion Struck with John R. Miles59 min
119. My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark59 min
120. Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend59 min
121. The Oprah Podcast59 min
122. Hard Fork59 min
123. SmartLess60 min
124. On Purpose with Jay Shetty60 min
125. The Dylan Gemelli Podcast62 min
126. This American Life62 min
127. Miss Understood with Rachel Uchitel62 min
128. On with Kara Swisher62 min
129. 2819 Church62 min
130. Pivot63 min
131. The MOOD Podcast63 min
132. The Mel Robbins Podcast65 min
133. Habits and Hustle65 min
134. Becoming UnDone® with Dr. Toby Brooks65 min
135. Unblinded with Sean Callagy66 min
136. Serialously with Annie Elise66 min
137. Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha: Entrepreneurship and Self-Improvement Podcast67 min
138. Build or Break67 min
139. Fantasy Football Today67 min
140. the bossbabe podcast68 min
141. The Tim Dillon Show70 min
142. Still Counting70 min
143. Sword and Scale71 min
144. The Toast72 min
145. The Home Service Expert Podcast72 min
146. Ante Up Poker Magazine72 min
147. The Drop the Needle Podcast73 min
148. Smosh Reads Reddit Stories73 min
149. Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast73 min
150. Behind the Bastards73 min
151. 2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer73 min
152. The Rest Is History74 min
153. Bad Friends74 min
154. IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson74 min
155. Pod Save America75 min
156. Ologies with Alie Ward75 min
157. Good Hang with Amy Poehler76 min
158. Coffeez with Joe Shalaby77 min
159. Last Podcast On The Left77 min
160. Huberman Lab78 min
161. Casefile True Crime79 min
162. True Crime with Kendall Rae80 min
163. The MeatEater Podcast82 min
164. The Basement Yard83 min
165. REAL AF with Andy Frisella86 min
166. We!88 min
167. The Team House88 min
168. Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard89 min
169. Hidden Brain89 min
170. The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart92 min
171. The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett97 min
172. Financial Audit99 min
173. Live Free with Josh Howerton101 min
174. The Glenn Beck Program101 min
175. Tomorrow, Today102 min
176. The Megyn Kelly Show102 min
177. The Zach Lowe Show102 min
178. The Tucker Carlson Show103 min
179. Adam Carolla Show106 min
180. Two Hot Takes108 min
181. followHIM108 min
182. This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von110 min
183. Mystery Boys w/ Kurt Metzger & Duncan Trussell121 min
184. Modern Wisdom121 min
185. The Big Picture125 min
186. The Ramsey Show127 min
187. The Why Files: Operation Podcast127 min
188. Small Town Murder130 min
189. The Bill Simmons Podcast135 min
190. Bourbon with Brad143 min
191. The Joe Rogan Experience170 min
192. Pardon My Take181 min
193. The Shawn Ryan Show183 min
194. The Joe Budden Podcast192 min
195. Acquired240 min

How we measured

For each show we read the length the publisher states (itunes:duration) on up to ten of its newest episodes, and took the median, so one bonus episode or trailer doesn't move it. Shows stating fewer than three lengths are left out. The chart is Apple's US top 200 on October 27, 2026, less the shows whose feed didn't answer.

Questions

How long is the average podcast?

On the US Apple Podcasts chart, the median show's episodes run 52 minutes (we measured 195 shows on October 29, 2026). Across all podcasts it's shorter: CastFox puts the median at 35 minutes across 58,886 shows.

Are popular podcasts longer?

Yes. 73 of the 195 chart shows we measured run an hour or more, and the chart's median of 52 minutes is well above the 35 minutes CastFox found across all podcasts.

Which podcasts are shortest?

On the chart: The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex (about 4 minutes), NPR News Now (about 5 minutes), The Bible Recap (about 9 minutes). As a genre, daily news runs shortest, at a median of 16 minutes.

How long should my podcast be?

As long as the content holds up: the chart runs from 4 minutes to 240. What the numbers show is that each genre has a norm, from 16 minutes for daily news to 73 for comedy. Look at the shows you'd sit next to.

Can I share just part of a long episode?

Yes. Open the show in BitePods, mark where the moment starts and ends, and send the link. It plays just that part from the show's own file. Free, no account.

Source for all podcasts: CastFox, Average podcast episode length 2026, read October 29, 2026. Everything else on this page we measured. More from the same feeds: podcast statistics.