--- title: Average Sex Time: List of How Long Residents of Each State Last in Bed description: Americans don't exactly take their time in the sack canonical: https://time.com/8745/sex-map-which-states-do-it-longest/ author: Kate Knibbs article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-02-19T18:32:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:07:14.498Z og:title: Average Sex Time: List of How Long Residents of Each State Last in Bed og:description: Americans don't exactly take their time in the sack og:url: https://time.com/8745/sex-map-which-states-do-it-longest/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc0f74b1e45a73203/698682ddcd68480f95093551/time_reboundsex.png?branch=production&width=640&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 640 og:image:height: 360 og:image:alt: Dorm beds: often sites of rebound sex. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Average Sex Time: List of How Long Residents of Each State Last in Bed twitter:description: Americans don't exactly take their time in the sack twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc0f74b1e45a73203/698682ddcd68480f95093551/time_reboundsex.png?branch=production&width=640&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # How Long Does Your State Last? > Sponsored content. 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Qusai Al Shidi—Flickr by [Kate Knibbs](https://time.com/author/kate-knibbs/) ## Kate Knibbs Feb 19, 2014 6:32 PM UTC If New Mexico’s looking for a catchy tourism slogan, may we submit “New Mexico Does It Longer?” The state, home to the fictional Walter White, contains the longest sex-havers in the nation, according to [data collected](http://www.nerve.com/love-sex/which-states-have-the-longest-and-shortest-sex) by the [Spreadsheets App](http://spreadsheetsapp.com/) and [published in map-form by Nerve.com](http://www.nerve.com/love-sex/which-states-have-the-longest-and-shortest-sex), a mobile app that helps people measure their time between the sheets. People in New Mexico do it for just over seven minutes on average. Alaskans aren’t nearly so patient: the coldest state also has the shortest sex sessions, clocking in under two minutes. Two minutes is barely enough time to get every article of clothing off! Get it together, Alaska. Then again, maybe Alaskans aren’t even bothering to take their clothes off since the weather is so cold. Here’s the complete list: _1\. New Mexico – (7:01)_ _2\. West Virginia – (5:38)_ _3\. Idaho – (5:11)_ _4\. South Carolina – (4:48)_ _5\. Missouri – (4:22)_ _6\. Michigan -(4:14)_ _7\. Utah – (3:55)_ _8\. Oregon – (3:51)_ _9\. Nebraska – (3:47)_ _10\. Alabama – (3:38)_ _11\. Delaware – (3:33)_ _12\. Hawaii – (3:28)_ _13\. Wisconsin – (3:22)_ _14\. North Dakota – (3:18)_ _15\. Arizona – (3:17)_ _16\. Maryland – (3:15)_ _17\. Mississippi – (3:10)_ _18\. Rhode Island – (3:09)_ _19\. Connecticut – (3:07)_ _20\. Texas – (3:06)_ _21\. New Hampshire – (3:04)_ _22\. Wyoming – (3:03)_ _23\. New York – (3:01)_ _24\. Pennsylvania – (2:58)_ _25\. Maine – (2:58)_ _26\. Washington – (2:51)_ _27\. Iowa – (2:50)_ _28\. Illinois – (2:49)_ _29\. North Carolina – (2:47)_ _30\. Tennessee – (2:46)_ _31\. Kansas – (2:38)_ _32\. California – (2:38)_ _33\. Massachusetts – (2:31)_ _34\. Florida – (2:29)_ _35\. New Jersey – (2:28)_ _36\. Indiana – (2:26)_ _37\. Virginia – (2:23)_ _38\. Oklahoma – (2:21)_ _39\. Colorado – (2:21)_ _40\. Minnesota – (2:19)_ _41\. Ohio – (2:18)_ _42\. Louisiana – (2:17)_ _43\. Kentucky – (2:14)_ _44\. Arkansas – (2:08)_ _45\. District of Columbia – (2:08)_ _46\. Nevada – (2:07)_ _47\. Georgia – (2:07)_ _48\. Montana – (2:03)_ _49\. Vermont – (1:48)_ _50\. South Dakota – (1:30)_ _51\. 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