Games / VALORANT / Best time to stream
Best time to stream VALORANT
▲ Trending on Twitch this week
When do VALORANT viewers outnumber VALORANT 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 13:00~10K viewers/channel
- #2Friday 12:00~9.4K viewers/channel
- #3Saturday 12:00~9.3K viewers/channel
Times shown in UTC.
Weekly opportunity heatmap
The best opportunity window is Saturday 13:00 (UTC) — ~17.6K viewers spread across ~1.8 live channel.
viewers per live channel — brighter = better time to stream
Saturday 13:00–14:00~9.8K viewers/channel~17.6K viewers~1.8 live channels4 observed days· best window — tap any cell for details
How long do VALORANT streams take to peak?
Median concurrent viewers by hour into the stream across tracked VALORANT 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 63 tracked VALORANT channels on Twitch over the last 28 days (1,804 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.
← VALORANT streamers & schedule · Best games to stream right now · VALORANT ranking