Best Time to Post Calculator

See recommended posting windows for each major platform and shift them to your own timezone with a simple hour offset. Calculated in your browser.

The recommended times are in your audience's local time. If you live ahead of most of your audience, enter a positive number to shift the times to your own clock.

Times shown in

Audience local time

Offset appliednone

Best times to post

PlatformBest daysBest times
Instagram Mon–Fri -
Facebook Tue–Fri -
X (Twitter) Mon–Fri -
TikTok Tue–Thu -
YouTube Thu–Sun -
LinkedIn Tue–Thu -

How to use this

These windows are aggregated industry benchmarks for when audiences are typically most active. They're a starting point, your own analytics, once you have a few weeks of data, always beat any generic chart.

Shifting by your timezone offset wraps cleanly across midnight, so a late-evening slot for your audience might land early-morning for you. Post a little before the peak so the algorithm has time to pick the post up. All times are computed in your browser.

What this does

A best time to post calculator shows recommended posting windows for each major platform and shifts them to your own timezone with a simple hour offset.

How to use it

  1. Pick your platform.
  2. Enter your timezone offset in hours.
  3. Read the shifted posting windows.
  4. Test them against your own analytics.

How it works

Times are aggregated industry benchmarks for when audiences are most active, given in local time and shifted by your offset, wrapping cleanly across midnight. Treat them as a starting point.

Understanding your result

These windows are aggregated industry benchmarks shifted to your timezone, so treat them as a sensible starting point, not a rule. Your own audience is the real authority: check when your past posts earned the most engagement and let that override the generic window over time.

Example

A +3 offset moves a 9am window to noon on your clock.

Sources & methodology

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Frequently asked questions

Where do these times come from?

They are aggregated industry benchmarks for when audiences are typically most active on each platform, given in your audience’s local time.

How does the timezone offset work?

Enter how many hours you are ahead of or behind your audience and every recommended time shifts to your own clock, wrapping cleanly across midnight.

Should I rely only on these times?

Treat them as a starting point. Once you have a few weeks of your own analytics, your audience’s real activity peaks beat any generic chart.