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.
Times shown in
Audience local time
Illustrative windows, not measured data for your audience.
Best times to post
| Platform | Best days | Best times |
|---|---|---|
| Mon–Fri | - | |
| Tue–Fri | - | |
| X (Twitter) | Mon–Fri | - |
| TikTok | Tue–Thu | - |
| YouTube | Thu–Sun | - |
| Tue–Thu | - |
How to use this
These windows are illustrative assumptions about when audiences are often active, not measured or published data. They're a starting point, your own analytics, once you have a few weeks of data, always beat any generic chart.
The best days are your audience's days. Shifting by your timezone offset wraps across midnight, so a late-evening slot for your audience might land early the next morning for you; those times are marked “(next day)” or “(day before)”. 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
- Pick your platform.
- Enter your timezone offset in hours.
- Read the shifted posting windows.
- Test them against your own analytics.
How it works
Times are illustrative assumptions about when audiences are often active, not measured or published data, given in local time and shifted by your offset, wrapping across midnight; a time that lands on another day for you is marked (next day) or (day before), and the best days are the days for your audience. Treat them as a starting point.
Understanding your result
These illustrative windows are 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.
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Frequently asked questions
Where do these times come from?
They are toolcan’s illustrative assumptions about when audiences are often active on each platform, not measured or published data, 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; a time that crosses midnight is marked (next day) or (day before).
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.
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