How long does it take from your hair to get dry after wash when you air dry it?

[Priska]

My hair has always been thin and dry and has therefore dried quickly. Nowadays it anyway seems to take ages to get dry, half a day or something... I don't know if it has something to do with natural hair care.

But back to the question! 😉

[EdG]

Drying time is affected by temperature and air flow. It can vary from 30 minutes to several hours.

You can speed up drying by separating the strands with a comb so that air can circulate. A fan can dramatically speed up drying.
Ed

[lapis_lazuli]

Hours and hours, even just from scalp to APL (without sitting in front of a fan or going outside). That's why I use a blow dryer at least partially.

[lapushka]

My hair has always been thin and dry and has therefore dried quickly. Nowadays it anyway seems to take ages to get dry, half a day or something... I don't know if it has something to do with natural hair care.

But back to the question! ��

Maybe try (know you are not exactly asking for advice) to clarify your hair. Always the first thing to go to in case of issues.

Mine towel dries 10-30 minutes, air dries max. 5H and then I diffuse for 5 minutes: dry. I can spread this out very easily as it's a Sunday, a not-need-to-go-places day, so it's fine and actually kind of refreshing with this hot weather!

[JasminxCat]

Around 3-5 hours, depending on air and temperature.

[Bat]

Mines really short lol so it probably takes 30 mins to an hour

[Lesley8]

Mine usually takes most of the day to dry, anything between 6-8hrs ,that's why I'm thinking of buying a hairdryer.

[olivetime]

APL here...in the summer, a couple of hours.
Last winter even with short hair, it can take all day!

[foreveryours]

Used to be less than half hour. But with the cooler temperatures and higher humidity we have now, it takes longer. I don't know anymore. I don't wait for it. I'm usually asleep by then

[illicitlizard]

Minimum a couple of hours in the blastingly hot summer, at the moment the better part of a day to be fully dry - mostly dry in a few hours but the deeper bits stay damp for a good long while. I tend to hit it with a blowdryer more often these days, just at the scalp, particularly the back of my hair which is super dense and takes forever to dry naturally.

If I do what some do and put it up in a braid or bun whilst still damp it won't dry over the course of a full working day. The other week I washed my hair at night, slept on it towel dried, woke up with damp hair and didn't have the time to blowdry. Put it up for work and when I got home, it was still damp. Not ideal to keep hair wet that long when it comes to damage.

To add to lapushka's point about clarifying; I had a clarifying shampoo once that seemed to separate all my strands so well that it dried in about an hour. Really weird but really convenient.