List of DragonVale dragon incubation and Breeding Times
NOTE: If you’d like to see our full DragonVale Breeding Guide, click here.
So, every once in awhile you’ll set up two dragons to start breeding and get hit with a lengthy 20 or 24 hour breeding time, and you’ll want to know just what IS that dragon going to be when they’re done doing the nasty? Is it worth rushing it with gems? Well, here’s a quick list of the various breeding/incubation times for the various DragonVale dragons to help you out. Please note, these are the times for the STANDARD breeding caves, so if you have upgraded your Epic Breeding Island or Breeding Cave to speed up the breed times, multiply these times by 1.2 as those caves speed the breeding time up by 80%. (Although once you have an egg, these times WILL sync up with the incubation times if you cannot identify the egg you get). Some dragons share the same breeding times, so you’ll have to use your brain a bit and think about the elements you blended to know whether your 8-hour breed time is going to be a Blazing or a Ice dragon.
DragonVale dragon incubation and Breeding Times
Instant: All Rift Dragons
30 Seconds: Ovalith, Dusk, Dawn
5 minutes: Earth
30 minutes: Cactus, Poison, Lightning
1 hour: Flower
2 hours: Fire, Air, Sandstorm, Wisp
3 hours: Firefly, Scorch, Spectre, Snowflake, Thistle
4 hours: Water, Iron, Magnetic, Forest, Frostbite
5 hours: Brass, Chrome, Love, Reindeer, Seaweed, Storm, Wind, Nectar
5.5 hours: Palladium
6 hours: Firework, Lichen, Mud, Quake, Rust, Ash, Pepper, Flash, Ruin, Arcturian , Conch
6.5 Hours: Sand
7 hours: Clover, Pollen, Lotus, Thorn
7.5 Hours: Abyss, Trench, Verdigris, Dandelion
8 hours: Metal, Blazing, Fog, Ice, Iceberg, Sonic, Willow, Snow, Rain, Obsidian, Hail, Ember, Mistletoe, Acid, Tempest , Inferno, Midday, Bizurian
9 hours: Swamp, Bouquet, Meadow, Candescent, Tidepool
9.5 hours: Salamander, Glare, Spark
10 hours: Bone, Evergreen, Lava, Mine, Sakura, Blizzard, Century, Glacier, Arbor, Bubble, Soot, Frostflower, Jetstream, Infrared
11 Hours: Shimmer, Delirium , Smolder, Fluorescent
11.5 hours: Coral
11.9 Hours: Moonstruck
12 hours: Cold, Blue Fire, Butterfly, Frostfire, Moss, Malachite, Ironwood, Paper, Heat, Carnival, Regift, Halo , Midnight, Nosferatu, Plains, Nether , Molten, Garden, Trinket, Pond, Oni, Dracabra, Hooded, Cocoahollow
12 hours 25 minutes: Gift Dragon, Ire, Lycan, Steam, Ironwrought
12.5 Hours: Glass, Howl, Lagoon, Arid
13 hours: Bloom, River, Motley, Luminous, Iridescent
13.5 hours: Shield
14 hours: Mountian, Steel, Tree, Smoke, Rose, Meteor, Vortex, Wraith, Darkling, Mirror, Ivy, Plateau, Bounteous, Bilby, Limulimu
14.5 hours: Leap Year
15 Hours: Bearded, OrTreat, Treat, Sulfur , Quicksand, Thicket, Fissure, Snapper, Spirit, Jingle
15.5 hours: Ghost, Promethium
16 hours: Current, Dodo, Plasma , Procyon, Andromedan, Antarian, Berry, Surge, bogberry
17 Hours : Celtic, Mirage
17.5 Hours: Crypt
18 hours: Nebula, Quicksilver, Shadow, Serenity, Bramble, Harvest , Eridanian, Seed, Wyrmwood, Harvest Moon, Thundersnow, Flurry, Conifer, Permafrost, Nova, Singularity, Cyclone, Woolen , Satin, Rosebud, Cumulus
18.5 Hours: Ooze
19 Hours: Gamma, Ribbon, Sumi, Shining, Icebound, Plumpkin, Starshine, Snowbrush
20 hours: Copper, Teidian, Zombie, Bicentennial , Orchid , Fates, Snowpocalypse, Coldforge, Starlight, Glimmerwing, Tansy
20 Hours 12 minutes: Apocalypse
20 Hours 30 min Manomano
21 Hours 30 Min: Hypnotic
22 hours: Rayleian, Scoria (formerly SLAG dragon), Comet, Kite, Arctic, Char, Teozinte, Fireflight, Tulip, Bonescale
23 hours: Geode, Dartwing, Eve
23.5 hours: Solstice
24 hours: Celerulean, Crystal, Forge, Equinox, Spring, Terradiem, Summer, Cotton, Autumn, Winter, Surprise, Melancholy , Holly, Feast, Garland, Bog, Decay, Stoneheart, Subterranean, Solarflare, Nesting, Stoneshell
24 hours, 30 min: Totem
25 hours: Verglace, Flicker, Krampus, Kringle
25 hours 30 min: Lodestone
26 Hours 24 min: Ouroboros
27 hours:Omen, Nightbloom, Tinsel
27 hours 30 minutes: Oracle
28 hours: Amethyst, Cuddlewing, Starwing, Cumberpatch
28 hours 30 min: Polarian
29 hours: Double Leap Year, Daydream, Sweetheart, Smitten
29 Hours 48 min: Liberty
29.53 hours: Blue Moon
30 hours Pearl, Sapphire, Topaz, Diamond, Jet, Pharaoh , Bismuth, Tidal, Rosegold , Kaiju
30 hours 26 min: Jade, Amber, Quartz
30 hours 52 min: Gourd
31 hours: Emerald, Ruby, Peridot, Sapphire, Opal, Turquoise, Garnet, Okenite, Neoteric, Mesolite, Lace, Epoch, Honeyglow
32 Hours: Snowy Bronze Olympus, Snowy Silver Olympus, Snowy Gold Olympus , Lapis, Sunstruck
33 Hours: Cyclops, Aquamarine, Cerberus
33 Hours, 20 Minutes: Duskwing, Chrysalis
34 hours: Hydra, Glowwing, Scorn
35 hours:Azurite, Bronze Olympus, Silver Olympus, Gold Olympus, Tourmaline, Loot, Jasper , Dawnbringer, Spritely
36 hours: Panlong, Victory, Sprout, Wavelyte, Delight, Barite , Pyrite, Sanguinite , Muse, Leathery, Labradorite, Regal, Embossed
36 Hours, 29 Minutes: Nightmare
37 hours: Leaf
39 Hours, 27 Minutes: Ragnarok
41 Hours, 20 Minutes: Lacewing, SwallowTail
42 Hours: Sunstruck
45 Hours: Sorarian
47 hours: Silver
47.5 Hours: Electrum
48 hours: Rainbow, Gold, Sun, Moon (sun and moon times can occasionally vary), Seasonal, Solar Eclipse, Lunar Eclipse, Elysium , Prism, Voltaic, Spore, Alpenglow, Blightwing, Water Rift, Lightning Rift, Fire Rift, Plant Rift, Earth Rift, Cold Rift, Snowsquall
49 hours: Platinum
50 hours: Dream, Portent, Quintessence
50 hours, 40 Minutes: Marbletail
54 hours: Faire, Aurora, Party
60 Hours: Double Rainbow
(This guide is part of a larger DragonVale breeding guide. For the full list of breedable dragons, click here.
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Rifts take 30 seconds not 15. Also because of the update earth dragons take 2 hrs.
OMG TRY THE COMBINATION OF PAPER WITH BUTTERFLY, I GOT A MOON AND 2 GOLD OLYMPUS DRAGONS IN A ROW. My paper dragon is level twenty and so is my butterfly, my paper dragon is a baby, (fountain of youth) but my butterfly isnt (if that makes any difference) BUT SERIOUSLY TRY IT!!
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OMG! i combined a snow dragon with a forge dragon… on Epic Breeding Island, it says i have an incubation time of 60 hours? what is it?
Doubke rainbow.
Double rainbow.
OMG OMG OMG!!!! I breeded light and dark rift and got something with 48 hours!!!!
Me too…I tried to breed liight and dark and got something for 48 hours…cant wait.
Me too, bred 2x dark rift and got 48 hrs. Hope it isn’t another sun…
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I randomly bred a light dragon (lv 11) and a bloom dragon (lv 15)and got 48 hours!! Im so exciteed to see what i got.
Mud and blazing 48 hrs!! I was trying to get panlong, but im excited to see what i got. Hope its not another sunvdragon, i have three
Mud and blazing 48 hrs!! I was trying to get panlong, but im excited to see what i got. Hope its not another sunvdragon, i have three
bred glacier and motley! got leap year!!!!! yeah
i bred lightning and cold to get storm but i got hail when i tried it again it has a breeding time of 48hrs does ny body know what will i get???
Moon or sun, you are very lucky if it is a moon!
You are about a month late answering that question
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Mud and blazing, lv 12 each, solar eclipse dragon:)
I breed blue fire ten crystal and that’s how I egg most of my rare dragons. I’ve gotten a moon blue moon silver and apocalypse drone those two dragons remember blue fire then crystal
Oh my lucky two are Celtic and Leap year. I got a blue moon, ghost, apocalypse, quicksilver, rust, even though I didn’t have a metal dragon, a terradiem, and another Celtic!
One minute, I was breed crime and scorch trying to get a ruby, next, I got something 48hrs. What have I got?!?!
Sorry, I meant chrome.
13 hour with FIRE and STORM so can’t be any of the above choices. Any ideas as to what I got?
WHAT I got a MOTLEY????? Motley is FIRE and PLANT!!!!
Mötley is the April fools dragon. It can be bred with anything.
Am LOVING this awesome website!!! Easily the best DV site/guide out there 🙂
The incubation times and breeding gyides are freakin superb!
Keep up the good work you guys (n gals) totally rock ! 😉
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hey melisa, just sent you a friend request for Dragonvale, have gems to give.
Im sorry people dont add me anymore. Im already full.
Turns out i got a rainbow
I put in your Game Center code too Melisa.
Hey i put a lichen and crystal dragon together and i got a 14 hour timer. I can’t find any dragons on your 14 hour that have crystal and lichen dragon but I’ll post what it is after its done.
I think u have a tree
Try breeding leap year and rainbow! Tons of rare dragons from that. I got electrum, bronze, another rainbow and surprisingly winter… I also got common dragons like ash and coral
Leap year and double rainbow also works got a silver more leap years a cyclops a spring…. The list goes on and on Magic Combo!
I’m breeding blazing and metal for 48 hours? I have no idea what it will be, if you want to see my park my GC is Musical Master (don’t judge I didn’t come up with)
I put Sonic and Hail (both lvl 12) in Breeding Cave and got 48 hs … Any idea of what is going to come out?
@Macenstein I find it a bit confusing as to how you say to multiply breeding times for ungraded cave/EBS so here is what I do and you may want to post it. For an UPGRADED cave: divide YOUR time by 4 then MULTIPLY by 5. Here is the algebraic expression: a/4*5=b a=What your cave says b=What the website says
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WOOHOO an actual Olympus drag VS the snowy Olympus Good luck for your countries at the Olympics!
OMG I got 48 timer with Hail dragon on left and Promethium on right I ALREADY HAVE RAINBOW IF I GET ANOTHER ONE I CAN BREED THEM ILL GET DOUBLE RAINBOW!!!!!!!! I’ll let u know what it is! I’m so happy!! >_<. #_# !!!!
Bred river and iceberg in the EBC got 24hrs48mins that means 31 hrs normal but that’s not possible right now because the 31hr dragons aren’t out right now. What the heck is going on? (Hope its a aquamarine!)
Something strange happened while I was trying to breed a River dragon. Some how I got a Motley. I think maybe the game glitched. Because I’ve only been trying for an Iceberg(which I just hatched) and a River. I’m wondering if something weird like this has happened to anyone else. I hatched it and it is a plant and fire dragon like its suppose to be. I’m pretty pleased to have second one.
Hey… Trying to get sandstorm w/ crystal and air, got 13 hours… What could it be? Answers would be appreciated.
Never mind, it was a Motley (?)
it is an aquamarine
lol the funniest thing happened, i bred a rainbow and leap year today and got a 14.5 hours breeding time which is only leap year but it has expired ???????????????????????
I get the feeling that if a dragon that has expired is paired with one that hasn’t you can get another one of it. Have fun with what I reckon is a leap year
Ps I know this is ages late
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I did random dragons and in incububater it said ether 2 days or 3
I just bred thunder and earth both level 12 and got 1 day and 11 hours breeding time. I’m assuming it’s a gold, silver, or bronze Olympus?????
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I bred Rust and Firefly on the EBI, Rust lvl 10 and Firefly lvl 11. I got something 48hrs, and surprisingly I DON’T want another Sun or moon, because I already have two of each! I was trying for Electrum, but now I have something totally different. Anyone have any idea what I have got? Please reply, and I will try to look at your opinion on what I have got. 🙂 🙂
It turns out I have a gold. I just wanted a treasure type dragon and I got one. I’m still happy! 🙂
Plant and dark, 13.5 hours. What will it be?
Rainbow and double rainbow, both lvl 10, regular breeding cave. I’ve noticed that if you breed rare dragons together, they often make other, different rare dragons. 🙂
4 hrs electrum and gold. WTF?
4 hrs electrum and gold. WTF?
I got 13 leap years by breeding glacier and thunder
Breed bronse olimpus with snowy bronse olimpus
I bred a cold and a lava dragon together on the epic breeding island. The breeding time is 22 hours. What could it be?
Sounds like a scoria dragon!
I got a seasonal by breeding forest a nod blazing in epic breeding island
I bred a Crystal and Lichen dragon at the regular cave, both are Level 12.
I got a time of 22 hours…but I don’t see how Crystal and Lichen could form a scoria dragon since there is no metal in either lichen or crystal? What do I have?
Tried ages to get a sun using cold with storm and cold with firefly and got nothing on my epic breeding island after 20+ tries. I was doing research on how to get a sun and loads of people said breed lichen with crystal and first time around I got a 48hrs breed time! Can’t wait!! Any ideas on what it might be??
You don’t have the Arctic Dragon on your breeding time list
. 22 hours.
I just Bred a dragon that takes 23 hours and there is nothing on the list that takes that time frame. also you do not have the Arctic dragon listed as 22 hours.
You might have upgraded your breeding stuff
I just got 23 hours too and mine isn’t upgraded??
Geode dragon
Breeding rain and mountain to try and get sapphire and got 23 hours. Definitely not upgraded any ideas?
List needs updating to include geode dragon 23 hrs
I am breeding rain and mountain and just got 23 hours in the cave it is not upgraded what can it be?
That’s weird. I bred a mud and lava dragon, both on level 11 and got 23 hours. Not 23.5 hours, just 23. What is it? I can’t find it on the list…
Same thing with the 23 hour incubation, except I was breeding sand and lotus
23 hours is Geode
I’ve been breeding paper and copper for apocalypse. After eight tries I got 29 hours and 31 minutes. Can’t find anything with that breeding time. Does anyone know what I’m expecting?