| Date | Format | Minutes | |
| Lyndon B. Johnson |
average |
0:50:38 | |
| January 8, 1964 | spoken | 0:40:50 | |
| January 4, 1965 | spoken | 0:47:10 | |
| January 12, 1966 | spoken | 0:50:36 | |
| January 10, 1967 | spoken | 1:11:16 | |
| January 17, 1968 | spoken | 0:50:13 | |
| January 14, 1969 | spoken | 0:43:41 | |
| Richard Nixon | average spoken | 0:35:26 | |
| January 22, 1970 | spoken | 0:36:40 | |
| January 22, 1971 | spoken | 0:33:17 | |
| January 20, 1972 | spoken | 0:28:55 | |
| February 2, 1973 | written | NR | |
| January 30, 1974 | spoken | 0:42:51 | |
| Gerald R. Ford |
average |
0:45:31 | |
| January 15, 1975 | spoken | 0:41:00 | |
| January 19, 1976 | spoken | 0:50:38 | |
| January 12, 1977 | spoken | 0:44:55 | |
| Jimmy Carter | average spoken | apx. 0:36:53 | |
| January 19, 1978 | spoken | 0:46:04 | |
| January 25, 1979 | spoken | 0:32:32 | |
| January 21, 1980 | spoken | 0:32:04 | |
| January 16, 1981 | written | NR | |
| Ronald Reagan |
average (ex. 1981) |
apx. 0:40:00 | |
| 1981 NOT a "State of the Union" | February 18, 1981 | spoken | not measured |
| January 26, 1982 | spoken | 0:40:14 | |
| January 25, 1983 | spoken | apx. 46 min. | |
| January 25, 1984 | spoken | 0:43:02 | |
| February 6, 1985 | spoken | apx. 40 min. | |
| February 4, 1986 | spoken | apx. 31 min. | |
| January 27, 1987 | spoken | 0:34:39 | |
| January 25, 1988 | spoken | apx. 44 min. | |
| George Bush | average (ex. 1989) | 0:45:32 | |
| 1989 NOT a "State of the Union" | February 9, 1989 | spoken | 0:48:14 |
| January 31, 1990 | spoken | 0:35:43 | |
| January 29, 1991 | spoken | 0:47:10 | |
| January 28, 1992 | spoken | 0:51:04 | |
| William J. Clinton |
average (ex. 1993) |
1:14:51 | |
| 1993 NOT a "State of the Union" | February 17, 1993 | spoken | 1:05:31 |
| January 25, 1994 | spoken | 1:03:44 | |
| January 24, 1995 | spoken | 1:24:58 | |
| January 23, 1996 | spoken | 1:06:41 | |
| February 4, 1997 | spoken | 1:04:21 | |
| January 27, 1998 | spoken | 1:16:43 | |
| January 19, 1999 | spoken | 1:18:40 | |
| January 27, 2000 | spoken | 1:28:49 | |
| George W. Bush | average (ex. 2001) | 0:52:35 | |
| 2001 NOT a "State of the Union" | February 27, 2001 | spoken | 0:49:10 |
| January 29, 2002 | spoken | 0:47:49 | |
| January 28, 2003 | spoken | 0:59:35 | |
| January 20, 2004 | spoken | 0:53:55 | |
| February 2, 2005 | spoken | 0:53:20 | |
| January 31, 2006 | spoken | 0:51:08 | |
| January 23, 2007 | spoken | 0:49:24 | |
| January 28, 2008 | spoken | 0:52:56 | |
| Barack Obama |
average (ex. 2009) |
1:02:45 | |
| 2009 NOT a "State of the Union" | February 24, 2009 | spoken | 0:51:44 |
| January 27, 2010 | spoken | 1:09:20 | |
| January 25, 2011 | spoken | 1:01:34 | |
| January 24, 2012 | spoken | 1:04:44 | |
| February 12, 2013 | spoken | 0:59:51 | |
| January 28, 2014 | spoken | 1:05:07 | |
| January 20, 2015 | spoken | 0:59:57 | |
| January 12, 2016 | spoken | 0:58:44 | |
| Donald J. Trump |
average (ex. 2017) |
1:20:20 | |
| 2017 NOT a "State of the Union" | February 28, 2017 | spoken | 1:00:10 |
| January 30, 2018 | spoken | 1:20:32 | |
| February 5, 2019 | spoken | 1:22:25 | |
| February 4, 2020 | spoken | 1:18:04 | |
| Joseph R. Biden |
average (ex. 2021) |
1:07:22 | |
| 2021 NOT a "State of the Union" | April 28, 2021 | spoken | 1:05:08 |
| March 1, 2022 | spoken | 1:01:50 | |
| February 7, 2023 | spoken | 1:13:00 | |
| March 7, 2024 | spoken | 1:07:17 | |
| start time generally begins when the President states, "Mr. or Madam Speaker..." | |||
Citation: Gerhard Peters. "Length of State of the Union Addresses in Minutes (from 1966)." The American Presidency Project. Ed. John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters. Santa Barbara, CA: University of California. 1999-2024. Available from the World Wide Web: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/324136/.