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how long to watch all of canon, in timeline order
pick a start and end date. this works out how many episodes a day you need to clear the entire canon in true in-universe timeline order, and keeps a running tally as you go. the full set is 12 films + 16 series, … viewings (… episodes), … hours of actual story, not inflated runtime.
times are net watch time. every episode loses its intro, its "previously on" recap, and its end credits, because you skip them. that trims about … hours off the … hour paper runtime. movies are counted in full. series totals are episode count times sourced average runtime, minus a fixed per-format overhead, never a per-episode guess.
the schedule, timeline start to finish
order: chronological by in-universe date. the acolyte (~132 bby, high republic) opens the run; the skywalker saga closes it. concurrent stories are sequenced for a clean watch: andor flows straight into rogue one; rebels is placed just before it though the two overlap (5 to 1 bby); the book of boba fett sits between the mandalorian seasons 2 and 3 as it does in canon. tales anthologies and maul: shadow lord sit at their era anchor though individual chapters jump around. the clone wars has a separate official chronological episode order that differs from season order, follow starwars.com's list for the purist run.
excluded: non-canon (visions, lego, the holiday special), kids micro-series (forces of destiny, galaxy of adventures, young jedi adventures), the 2003 tartakovsky clone wars, and the mandalorian and grogu (theatrical 2026, not yet streaming). ahsoka is season 1 only; season 2 unreleased.
method: runtimes from wikipedia and wookieepedia episode tables and the starwars.com viewing guide; counts cross-checked against epguides and tvmaze. overhead deductions per episode: half-hour animation 1.5 min (intro plus credits), anthology shorts 0.5 min (credits), live-action 3.0 min (recap plus long credits); films counted at full runtime.