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Best time to stream Valheim
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When do Valheim viewers outnumber Valheim streamers? The heatmap below compares hourly viewer demand with live-channel competition — the brighter a cell glows, the better your odds of getting discovered. Gold is prime time; dark violet means you'd be streaming into the void.
Top windows this month
- #1Monday 09:00~3K viewers/channel
- #2Monday 10:00~2.6K viewers/channel
- #3Monday 14:00~2.5K viewers/channel
Times shown in UTC.
The strongest window for Valheim is Monday at 09:00 UTC: about 4.5K viewers across 1.5 live channels, or 3K viewers per channel. That is 1.5 times the weekly average of 2K viewers per channel, so a stream in that hour competes with fewer channels for each viewer.
The next best windows are Monday at 10:00 UTC (2.6K viewers per channel) and Monday at 14:00 UTC (2.5K viewers per channel). All times in this summary are UTC.
Weekly opportunity heatmap
The best opportunity window is Monday 09:00 (UTC) — ~4.5K viewers spread across ~1.5 live channel.
viewers per live channel — the brighter the glow, the better your shot at getting discovered
Monday 09:00–10:00~3K viewers/channel~4.5K viewers~1.5 live channels2 observed days· best window — tap any cell for details
How long do Valheim streams take to peak?
Median concurrent viewers by hour into the stream across tracked Valheim channels — viewership typically peaks in hour 7. Streams shorter than that often end before their audience arrives.
How to use these Valheim numbers
Viewers per channel is a ratio, not a promise. An hour with a small audience and even fewer live channels can score well, so switch the heatmap to Viewers before you plan around a quiet hour: a high ratio built on a small audience still means a small audience. Competition shows the other side, the hours when the most Valheim channels are live at once.
Treat the top windows as a starting point for a test rather than a rule. Stream your usual Valheim content in one of them for two or three weeks and compare your average viewers with your current slot. The numbers are rebuilt every night from the last 28 days, so the windows follow the audience as it shifts.
How this is measured
Based on hourly concurrent-viewer samples of 22 tracked Valheim channels on Twitch over the last 28 days (455 samples). Cells observed on fewer than 2 distinct days show as “no data” — a sampling gap is not the same as an empty timeslot. Numbers describe the channels we track, not all of Twitch, and skew toward established streamers.
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