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Nielsen rankings
The following is a table for the seasonal rankings, based on average total estimated viewers per episode, of The Vampire Diaries on The CW. "Rank" refers to how The Vampire Diaries rated compared to the other television series which aired during primetime hours.

{| class="wikitable" ! style="width:19%;" rowspan="2"| Season ! style="width:%7;" rowspan="2"| Timeslot (ET/PT) ! colspan=2| Season premiere ! colspan=2| Season finale

! style="background:#ffdead" rowspan=2| Rank ! style="background:#ffdead;" rowspan="2"| Viewers (in millions) ! Date ! span style="width:7%; font-size:smaller; line-height:100%;"| Premiere Viewers (in millions) ! Date ! span style="width:10%; font-size:smaller; line-height:100%;"| Finale Viewers (in millions) ! Season 1 ! rowspan=6 span style="font-weight:normal;line-height:100%"| Thursday 8/7C ! 4.91 ! 3.47 ! style="background:#fc9;"|#118 ! style="background:#fc9;"|3.60 ! Season 2 ! 3.36 ! 2.86 ! style="background:#fc9;"|#193 ! style="background:#fc9;"|3.17 ! Season 3 ! 3.10 ! 2.53 ! style="background:#fc9;"|#166 ! style="background:#fc9;"|2.91 ! Season 4 ! 3.18 ! 2.24 ! style="background:#fc9;"|#133 ! style="background:#fc9;"|2.97 ! Season 5 ! 2.59 ! 1.61 ! style="background:#fc9;"| #147 ! style="background:#fc9;"| 2.68 ! Season 6 ! 1.81 ! N/A ! N/A ! N/A
 * style="font-size:11px;line-height:110%"|September 10, 2009
 * style="font-size:11px;line-height:110%"|May 13, 2010
 * style="font-size:11px;line-height:110%"|September 9, 2010
 * style="font-size:11px;line-height:110%"|May 12, 2011
 * style="font-size:11px;line-height:110%"| September 15, 2011
 * style="font-size:11px;line-height:110%"| May 10, 2012
 * style="font-size:11px;line-height:110%"|October 11, 2012
 * style="font-size:11px;line-height:110%"| May 16, 2013
 * style="font-size:11px;line-height:110%"|October 3, 2013
 * style="font-size:11px;line-height:110%"| May 15, 2014
 * style="font-size:11px;line-height:110%"|October 2, 2014
 * N/A