Breaking Bad Timeline

This article is about the timeline of Breaking Bad episodes. For the timeline of Better Call Saul episodes, see Better Call Saul Timeline. For the complete chronology of the universe of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, see Timeline.

The following is a timeline of Breaking Bad that estimates the exact dates when the episodes in each season occurred. The days in which the episodes occurred are completely estimated and include downtime between the episodes as well.

Season 1

• "Pilot" - September 7-September 28, 2008 (three weeks)
• "Cat's in the Bag..." - September 29-30, 2008 (two days)
• "...and the Bag's in the River" - September 30-October 1, 2008 (two days)
• "Cancer Man" - October 3-9, 2008 (seven days)
• "Gray Matter" - October 8-13, 2008 (six days)
• "Crazy Handful of Nothin'" - October 14-24, 2008 (eleven days)
• "A No-Rough-Stuff-Type Deal" - October 25-31, 2008 (seven days)

Season 2

• "Seven Thirty-Seven" - October 31 - November 7, 2008 (seven days)
• "Grilled" - November 8, 2008 (one day)
• "Bit by a Dead Bee" - November 8-11, 2008 (four days)
• "Down" - November 12-17, 2008 (six days)
• "Breakage" - November 18-29, 2008 (twelve days)
• "Peekaboo" - November 30, 2008 (one day)
• "Negro y Azul" - December 1-2, 2008 (two days)
• "Better Call Saul" - December 3-5, 2008 (three days)
• "4 Days Out" - December 6-12, 2008 (seven days)
• "Over" - December 13-18, 2008 (six days)
• "Mandala" - December 19-27, 2008 (nine days)
• "Phoenix" - December 28, 2008 - January 26, 2009 (a month)
• "ABQ" - January 27 - February 17, 2009 (three weeks)

Season 3

• "No Más" - February 18-19, 2009 (two days)
• "Caballo Sin Nombre" - February 20 - March 1, 2009 (ten days)
• "I.F.T." - March 2-5, 2009 (four days)
• "Green Light" - March 6-10, 2009 (five days)
• "Más" - March 11-15, 2009 (five days)
• "Sunset" - March 16-17, 2009 (two days)
• "One Minute" - March 18-19, 2009 (two days)
• "I See You" - March 19-20, 2009 (two days)
• "Kafkaesque" - March 21-28, 2009 (seven days)
• "Fly" - March 29, 2009 (one day)
• "Abiquiú" - March 30 - April 7, 2009 (nine days)
• "Half Measures" - April 8-14, 2009 (seven days)
• "Full Measure" - April 15-16, 2009 (two days)

Season 4

• "Box Cutter" - April 16-17, 2009 (two days)
• "Thirty-Eight Snub" - April 18 - May 4, 2009 (seventeen days)
• "Open House" - May 5-6, 2009 (two days)
• "Bullet Points" - May 7-17, 2009 (eleven days)
• "Shotgun" - May 17-18, 2009 (two days)
• "Cornered" - May 19-20, 2009 (two days)
• "Problem Dog" - May 21 - June 4, 2009 (fifteen days)
• "Hermanos" - June 5 - July 2, 2009 (four weeks)
• "Bug" - July 3-9, 2009 (seven days)
• "Salud" - July 10, 2009 (one day)
• "Crawl Space" - July 11-13, 2009 (three days)
• "End Times - July 13-14, 2009 (two days)
• "Face Off - July 14, 2009 (one day)

Season 5

• "Live Free or Die" - July 15-30, 2009 (sixteen days); September 7, 2010 (in the intro)
• "Madrigal" - July 31 - August 6, 2009 (seven days)
• "Hazard Pay" - August 7-25, 2009 (nineteen days)
• "Fifty-One" - August 26 - September 9, 2009; (one week)
• "Dead Freight" - September 10-16, 2009 (seven days)
• "Buyout" - September 16-24, 2009 (nine days)
• "Say My Name" - September 24 - October 2, 2009 (nine days)
• "Gliding Over All" - October 2, 2009 - c. January 2010 (at least 3 months)
• "Blood Money" - c. March 3, 2010 - March 7, 2010 (at least five days)
• "Buried" - c. March 7, 2010 - March 9, 2010 (at least three days)
• "Confessions" - c. March 9, 2010 - March 11, 2010 (at least three days)
• "Rabid Dog" - c. March 11, 2010 - March 13, 2010 (at least three days)
• "To'hajiilee" - March 13, 2010
• "Ozymandias" - March 13, 2010 - March 14, 2010) (two days)
• "Granite State" - c. March 15, 2010 - September 4, 2010 (6 months)
• "Felina" - September 4-7, 2010 (three days)

Timeline inconsistencies

• In "Phoenix," Donald Margolis states that Jane Margolis turns 27 "next month," so this episode would take place in March, as Jane’s birthday is on April 4. If this is the case, the timeline prior to Jane's death is ~2 months off.
• Walter White seems to die on his 52nd birthday, which is said to be on a Tuesday. However, his birthday, September 7th, falls on a Wednesday in 2011. This would place his 52nd birthday in 2010, rather than 2011. This would be consistent, however, with a statement made by Vince Gilligan that Better Call Saul takes place "in 2002, 6 years before Saul meets Walter White." This would place "Pilot" in 2008, "Fifty-One" in 2009, and "Felina" (in which Walt turns 52) in 2010, in which September 7th was a Tuesday.
• In "Gliding Over All," an episode which takes place in 2010, a character states that "...whacking bin Laden wasn't this complicated;" Osama bin Laden wasn't killed until May 2011.
• In "Say My Name," Walter is watching an infomercial for the "Schticky." However, the Schticky wasn't being advertised until 2012.
• In "Shotgun," posters in the Los Pollos Hermanos restaurant say they've been awarded for the best burrito of 2010, even though the episode is set in 2009.

• In "Mandala", the scene at the Skyler's OBGYN where they are discussing when to have Holly via a c-section, Skyler objects to her doctor's suggestion that they take the baby a week from Friday because it falls on Friday the 13th. That episode on is estimated taking place between December 19th through December 27th 2008. The calendar of 2008, Friday the 13th falls in June. In 2009 It falls three times: February, March, and November. Based on Jane's April 4th birthdate and death a month prior to her turning 27 combined with Walt's banishment from the household and Holly's actual birth proves the calendar was not consulted during this episode or Skyler, Walt, and the doctor are ignorant of the current date in that episode.
• In various episodes, Jesse is seen playing the video game, "Rage". However, this game was not released until 2011, one year after the timeline of "Breaking Bad" occurs.
• In Better Call Saul Insider Podcast 304 around 34:40, co-writer Peter Gould says that Gus' poisoning took place in 2007.