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Best time to stream VALORANT
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When do VALORANT viewers outnumber VALORANT 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
- #1Sunday 10:00~9.7K viewers/channel
- #2Sunday 11:00~9.3K viewers/channel
- #3Sunday 19:00~8.7K viewers/channel
Times shown in UTC.
The strongest window for VALORANT is Sunday at 10:00 UTC: about 29.2K viewers across 3 live channels, or 9.7K viewers per channel. That is 3.4 times the weekly average of 2.9K viewers per channel, so a stream in that hour competes with fewer channels for each viewer.
The next best windows are Sunday at 11:00 UTC (9.3K viewers per channel) and Sunday at 19:00 UTC (8.7K viewers per channel). All times in this summary are UTC.
Weekly opportunity heatmap
The best opportunity window is Sunday 10:00 (UTC) — ~29.2K viewers spread across ~3 live channels.
viewers per live channel — the brighter the glow, the better your shot at getting discovered
Sunday 10:00–11:00~9.7K viewers/channel~29.2K viewers~3 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 6. Streams shorter than that often end before their audience arrives.
How to use these VALORANT 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 VALORANT channels are live at once.
Treat the top windows as a starting point for a test rather than a rule. Stream your usual VALORANT 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 72 tracked VALORANT channels on Twitch over the last 28 days (3,599 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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