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Best time to stream PEAK

When do PEAK viewers outnumber PEAK 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

  1. #1Friday 20:00~2.5K viewers/channel
  2. #2Saturday 16:00~2K viewers/channel
  3. #3Friday 21:00~1.8K viewers/channel

Times shown in UTC.

The strongest window for PEAK is Friday at 20:00 UTC: about 2.5K viewers across 1 live channel, or 2.5K viewers per channel. That is 2 times the weekly average of 1.3K viewers per channel, so a stream in that hour competes with fewer channels for each viewer.

The next best windows are Saturday at 16:00 UTC (2K viewers per channel) and Friday at 21:00 UTC (1.8K viewers per channel). All times in this summary are UTC.

Weekly opportunity heatmap

The best opportunity window is Friday 20:00 (UTC) — ~2.5K viewers spread across ~1 live channel.

viewers per live channel — the brighter the glow, the better your shot at getting discovered

Friday 20:00–21:00~2.5K viewers/channel~2.5K viewers~1 live channels2 observed days· best window — tap any cell for details

How long do PEAK streams take to peak?

Median concurrent viewers by hour into the stream across tracked PEAK channels — viewership typically peaks in hour 3. Streams shorter than that often end before their audience arrives.

How to use these PEAK 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 PEAK channels are live at once.

Treat the top windows as a starting point for a test rather than a rule. Stream your usual PEAK 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 14 tracked PEAK channels on Twitch over the last 28 days (111 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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