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Best time to stream Escape from Tarkov
When do Escape from Tarkov viewers outnumber Escape from Tarkov streamers? The heatmap below compares hourly viewer demand with live-channel competition — the brightest cells are the windows where a new stream has the best chance of being found.
Top windows this month
- #1Saturday 01:00~12.6K viewers/channel
- #2Wednesday 23:00~3K viewers/channel
- #3Wednesday 22:00~2.9K viewers/channel
Times shown in UTC.
Weekly opportunity heatmap
The best opportunity window is Saturday 01:00 (UTC) — ~12.6K viewers spread across ~1 live channel.
viewers per live channel — brighter = better time to stream
Saturday 01:00–02:00~12.6K viewers/channel~12.6K viewers~1 live channels2 observed days· best window — tap any cell for details
How long do Escape from Tarkov streams take to peak?
Median concurrent viewers by hour into the stream across tracked Escape from Tarkov channels — viewership typically peaks in hour 5. Streams shorter than that often end before their audience arrives.
How this is measured
Based on hourly concurrent-viewer samples of 5 tracked Escape from Tarkov channels on Twitch over the last 28 days (115 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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