Time dilation

Quality:

Time dilation - measured time difference as explained by relativity theory. Article “Time dilation” in English Wikipedia has 78.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 58 references and 22 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2026 the article “Time dilation” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Time dilation”, its content was written by 575 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1773 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 632 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3993 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #4655 in August 2017
• Global: #2414 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #954 in November 2014
• Global: #1853 in November 2014

There are 44 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Time dilation		78.066
2	Portuguese (pt) Dilatação do tempo		73.1611
3	German (de) Zeitdilatation		61.7697
4	Basque (eu) Denboraren zabalkuntza		57.1525
5	French (fr) Dilatation du temps		43.3496
6	Chinese (zh) 時間膨脹		42.9326
7	Greek (el) Διαστολή του χρόνου		42.8499
8	Esperanto (eo) Tempodilatiĝo		37.1729
9	Hindi (hi) समय विस्फारण		33.3925
10	Russian (ru) Замедление времени		33.1932

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Time dilation		10 854 096
2	German (de) Zeitdilatation		2 150 677
3	Japanese (ja) 時間の遅れ		1 637 934
4	Spanish (es) Dilatación del tiempo		1 138 025
5	Polish (pl) Dylatacja czasu		1 070 028
6	Russian (ru) Замедление времени		1 061 378
7	French (fr) Dilatation du temps		818 634
8	Chinese (zh) 時間膨脹		565 599
9	Arabic (ar) تمدد الزمن		434 607
10	Portuguese (pt) Dilatação do tempo		387 158

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Time dilation		28 245
2	German (de) Zeitdilatation		4 950
3	Japanese (ja) 時間の遅れ		3 176
4	French (fr) Dilatation du temps		2 245
5	Russian (ru) Замедление времени		2 062
6	Chinese (zh) 時間膨脹		1 590
7	Polish (pl) Dylatacja czasu		1 372
8	Spanish (es) Dilatación del tiempo		1 267
9	Simple English (simple) Time dilation		745
10	Portuguese (pt) Dilatação do tempo		534

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Time dilation		575
2	German (de) Zeitdilatation		242
3	French (fr) Dilatation du temps		106
4	Russian (ru) Замедление времени		77
5	Japanese (ja) 時間の遅れ		72
6	Dutch (nl) Tijddilatatie		67
7	Polish (pl) Dylatacja czasu		61
8	Spanish (es) Dilatación del tiempo		50
9	Arabic (ar) تمدد الزمن		44
10	Italian (it) Dilatazione del tempo		40

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Simple English (simple) Time dilation		2
2	Arabic (ar) تمدد الزمن		1
3	Czech (cs) Dilatace času		1
4	English (en) Time dilation		1
5	Esperanto (eo) Tempodilatiĝo		1
6	Spanish (es) Dilatación del tiempo		1
7	Basque (eu) Denboraren zabalkuntza		1
8	Romanian (ro) Dilatarea timpului		1
9	Serbian (sr) Дилатација времена		1
10	Bulgarian (bg) Релативистично забавяне на времето		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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