The best time to post, by platform.
Pick a platform and read the week at a glance: when the feed is hungry and when it's asleep. Built for faceless creators who batch once and schedule everything.
Two daily peaks: a morning commute window and a big evening scroll. Midweek beats weekends.
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- 01Tue6-9pmprime
- 02Wed6-9pmprime
- 03Thu6-9pmprime
- 04Mon6-9amstrong
- 05Mon12-1pmstrong
- 06Mon6-9pmstrong
- 07Tue6-9amstrong
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Times are in your audience's local time, not yours. They are starting windows from public engagement benchmarks: a hypothesis to test against your own analytics, not personalised data. We only recommend tools we genuinely use to run this brand. No paid placements.
Best times to post, summarised
The prime and strong windows for each platform, in your audience's local time. Use them as a starting point, then let your own analytics fine-tune.
TikTok
Two daily peaks: a morning commute window and a big evening scroll. Midweek beats weekends.
- Tue 6-9pm
- Wed 6-9pm
- Thu 6-9pm
- Mon 6-9am
- Mon 12-1pm
Lunchtime and mid-evening on weekdays. Wednesday is consistently the strongest day.
- Tue 7-9pm
- Wed 11am-1pm
- Wed 7-9pm
- Thu 7-9pm
- Mon 11am-1pm
YouTube
Publish a few hours before peak viewing: weekday afternoons, and mornings at the weekend.
- Thu 2-4pm
- Fri 2-4pm
- Sat 9-11am
- Sun 9-11am
- Mon 2-5pm
X (Twitter)
Fast-moving feed. Weekday mornings and lunch win; it falls off after work.
- Tue 8-10am
- Wed 8-10am
- Thu 8-10am
- Mon 8-11am
- Mon 12-1pm
Threads
Skews to mornings and late evening. Replies keep a post alive longer than on X.
- Mon 7-9am
- Tue 7-9am
- Wed 7-9am
- Thu 7-9am
- Fri 7-9am
Strictly business hours: Tuesday to Thursday mornings, midweek. Quiet on weekends.
- Tue 8-10am
- Wed 8-10am
- Thu 8-10am
- Mon 8-10am
- Tue 11am-12pm
No magic, just a sensible default
These windows are aggregated from widely published platform-engagement benchmarks and shown in your audience's local time. They are a hypothesis, not a guarantee, and not personalised to your account.
The real answer lives in your own analytics. Post consistently for two to three weeks, watch which slots land, and shift toward your winners. The fastest way to run that experiment is to schedule a batch across these windows and compare, rather than posting by hand whenever you remember.
Know the windows. Now fill them.
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