Every Town Hall Ranked by What It Really Costs You
Updated: 16 September 2026 · Goblins Farm
The price on the Town Hall button is the least interesting number about a Town Hall level. What a new Town Hall really costs you is the research and hero time it drops into your queue, and measured that way the levels are wildly uneven.
Why the Town Hall price is misleading
Town Hall 18 costs 25,000,000 gold and takes 12 days. Town Hall 12 costs 6,000,000 and takes 6 days. On that basis, 18 looks about four times the level that 12 is.
It is not. The Town Hall button is a rounding error next to what the level unlocks: new troop levels to research, new spell levels, new hero levels, and at the top end a pet track as well. That queue is the actual cost, and it is where the years go.
So we summed it from the game files. For every Town Hall, how many days of laboratory research and hero upgrades does arriving at that level add to your queue?
The ranking
Days of new research and hero time unlocked by each Town Hall, on top of everything before it:
- Town Hall 18 — 1,112 days (531 troop research, 221 spell, 360 hero) · 25,000,000 gold, 12 d
- Town Hall 17 — 674 days (286 / 110 / 278) · 16,000,000 gold, 10 d
- Town Hall 16 — 593 days (266 / 91 / 236) · 15,000,000 gold, 9 d
- Town Hall 15 — 479 days (204 / 71 / 205) · 13,000,000 gold, 8 d
- Town Hall 14 — 351 days (120 / 46 / 185) · 12,000,000 gold, 7 d 12 h
- Town Hall 13 — 333 days (133 / 34 / 166) · 9,000,000 gold, 7 d
- Town Hall 12 — 304 days (115 / 37 / 153) · 6,000,000 gold, 6 d
- Town Hall 11 — 174 days (58 / 30 / 87) · 4,000,000 gold, 5 d
- Town Hall 10 — 124 days (36 / 31 / 57) · 3,500,000 gold, 3 d
- Town Hall 9 — 77 days (26 / 7 / 44) · 2,500,000 gold, 2 d
The headline: Town Hall 18 alone adds more research and hero time than Town Halls 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 put together — 1,112 days against 1,012.
What this changes about how you play
Early Town Halls are cheap, so move through them. Town Hall 9 adds 77 days of queue. Sitting at Town Hall 9 'until maxed' for a year is spending a year on a level that holds eleven weeks of content. Finish what matters — heroes, your war army, key defences — and go.
Late Town Halls are where you actually live. From Town Hall 15 upward each level holds well over a year of research and hero time. Rushing into one of these is not a shortcut; it is arriving at a much bigger queue with the same income.
The crossover is around Town Hall 12. That is where the queue a level adds stops being measured in weeks and starts being measured in seasons, and it is roughly where the 'rush or max' argument stops being a matter of taste.
The number that ends the rushing argument. Available loot is set by the Town Hall you attack, not the one you own, and the search fee rises with your Town Hall: 750 gold at Town Hall 9, 1,700 at Town Hall 18. Rushing raises your costs and your matchmaking difficulty while your income and army stay where they were. See what rushing costs.
How to read this if you are mid-game
A practical way to use the table: before you press the Town Hall upgrade, look at the number for the level you are leaving and ask whether you got the valuable part of it. The valuable part is almost never 'everything'. It is:
- Hero levels, because they are the longest timers and the biggest attacking gain.
- Research on the specific army you attack with.
- Storages and collectors, because they set your income at the next level.
- Defences that your own defence replays show failing.
Everything else can follow you upward. The ordering logic is set out in full in upgrade priority.
Frequently asked
Which Town Hall takes the longest in Clash of Clans?
Town Hall 18, by a wide margin. It adds about 1,112 days of new laboratory research and hero upgrade time — more than Town Halls 9 through 13 combined.
Is Town Hall 12 a big jump?
Yes, it is the crossover point. Town Hall 12 adds about 304 days of research and hero time, roughly double Town Hall 11, and it is where the queue a level adds starts being measured in seasons rather than weeks.
Should I max every Town Hall before upgrading?
No. Early Town Halls hold very little content — Town Hall 9 adds only about 77 days of research and hero time — so getting the heroes, army research and storages done and moving on beats sitting for a year. From Town Hall 15 upward the calculation reverses, because each level holds over a year of queue.
How much does the attack search fee cost?
It rises with your Town Hall: 750 gold at Town Hall 9, 1,100 at Town Hall 12, 1,400 at Town Hall 15 and 1,700 at Town Hall 18. It is the only gold an attack actually costs, since troops have no training cost.
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