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As the rendering time may vary very significantly for rendering individual frames (depending on their content/settings) I guess that predicting in advance the total duration of an animation render is nearly impossible.

However I think you might be able to estimate roughly the duration of an animation render by first rendering a full length preview and extrapolating the duration from the ratio preview render time/full render time of a small animation of same dimension.