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Best time to stream Grand Theft Auto V
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When do Grand Theft Auto V viewers outnumber Grand Theft Auto V 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
- #1Thursday 07:00~21.2K viewers/channel
- #2Friday 06:00~16.8K viewers/channel
- #3Friday 07:00~15.9K viewers/channel
Times shown in UTC.
The strongest window for Grand Theft Auto V is Thursday at 07:00 UTC: about 21.2K viewers across 1 live channel, or 21.2K viewers per channel. That is 3.7 times the weekly average of 5.7K viewers per channel, so a stream in that hour competes with fewer channels for each viewer.
The next best windows are Friday at 06:00 UTC (16.8K viewers per channel) and Friday at 07:00 UTC (15.9K viewers per channel). All times in this summary are UTC.
Weekly opportunity heatmap
The best opportunity window is Thursday 07:00 (UTC) — ~21.2K viewers spread across ~1 live channel.
viewers per live channel — the brighter the glow, the better your shot at getting discovered
Thursday 07:00–08:00~21.2K viewers/channel~21.2K viewers~1 live channels4 observed days· best window — tap any cell for details
How long do Grand Theft Auto V streams take to peak?
Median concurrent viewers by hour into the stream across tracked Grand Theft Auto V channels — viewership typically peaks in hour 12. Streams shorter than that often end before their audience arrives.
How to use these Grand Theft Auto V 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 Grand Theft Auto V channels are live at once.
Treat the top windows as a starting point for a test rather than a rule. Stream your usual Grand Theft Auto V 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 53 tracked Grand Theft Auto V channels on Twitch over the last 28 days (2,129 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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