Key takeaways
- LinkedIn activity peaks between 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. on weekdays, measured in the audience's local time.
- Wednesday at 4 p.m. is the top slot of the week, followed by Friday at 3 p.m. and 4 p.m.
- Monday and Tuesday bring the fewest reactions and comments, so Wednesday to Friday suits your strongest posts.
- In 2026 the peak moved from working hours to late afternoon and evening.
- The hours come from an analysis of more than 4.8 million LinkedIn posts; check them against your own analytics.
The best time to post on LinkedIn in 2026 is between 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. on a weekday, and Wednesday at 4 p.m. is the strongest single hour. The grid above converts every hour to your time zone, so 4 p.m. always means 4 p.m. on your audience's clock.
The three highest-ranked slots of the week are Wednesday at 4 p.m., Friday at 3 p.m. and Friday at 4 p.m.
What is the best time to post on LinkedIn for each day of the week?
Weekday late afternoons and evenings draw the most reactions. Monday and Tuesday are the quietest working days, so hold your strongest posts for Wednesday through Friday.
| Day of the week | Top three hours (audience's local time) |
|---|---|
| Monday | 10 p.m., 5 p.m., 9 p.m. |
| Tuesday | 4 p.m., 5 p.m., 10 p.m. |
| Wednesday | 4 p.m., 3 p.m., 5 p.m. |
| Thursday | 5 p.m., 7 p.m., 9 p.m. |
| Friday | 3 p.m., 4 p.m., 5 p.m. |
| Saturday | 9 a.m., 6 p.m., 10 p.m. |
| Sunday | 10 p.m., 9 p.m., 6 a.m. |
LinkedIn posting times, one day at a time
Monday
The top hour on Monday is 10 p.m., with 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. next in line. Activity stays below the midweek level, and many people read their feed in the evening once the workday is over.
Tuesday
On Tuesday, 4 p.m. ranks first, then 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. It is another weaker day, so run a few test posts before you commit to a fixed Tuesday slot.
Wednesday
Aim for 4 p.m., with 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. right behind it. Wednesday is the top day of the week, and its 4 p.m. hour is among the busiest of all seven days.
Thursday
Thursday peaks at 5 p.m., followed by 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. It trails Wednesday only slightly, and its evening hours keep performing well.
Friday
The best Friday hours are 3 p.m., 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. Friday afternoon holds two of the three highest-ranked slots in the whole week.
Saturday
On Saturday the morning wins at 9 a.m., then 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. Weekend activity is lower overall, though an early or late post still finds readers.
Sunday
Sunday's top hour is 10 p.m., then 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. A late Sunday post reaches people while they plan the week ahead.
Why does posting time matter on LinkedIn?
LinkedIn treats reactions, comments and reposts as signals of which posts people find worth their time, and it shows those posts to a wider audience. The more of these a post collects, the more feeds it lands in.
The first hour carries the most weight. Publish while your audience is offline and the post gets little early response and fades; publish while they are scrolling and those early reactions tell LinkedIn to keep showing it.
The peak has also moved. In 2025 the busiest hours sat inside the working day. In 2026 they shifted to 3 p.m. to 8 p.m., when professionals read and react after closing their laptops, and morning posts from 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. now tend to get fewer reactions than afternoon and evening ones.
Do personal profiles and company pages have different best times?
Yes. The pattern changes with the type of account, so look at the one you actually post from.
Personal profiles
The windows in the table hold for brands and personal brands alike. Posts from personal profiles usually collect more reactions per post than posts from pages.
The most-followed profiles
The top 5% of profiles keep their own schedule. Their followers have learned when a new post usually appears, so the general windows matter less for them.
Company pages
Pages have a rhythm of their own and tend to do better when employees and followers are at work.
How do you use the posting time tool?
You don't need an account. It takes three steps:
- Choose your time zone.
The grid relabels each hour to your local clock as soon as you pick one. - Look at the shaded windows.
Highlighted cells mark the hours when published research finds LinkedIn activity tends to peak. - Compare with your own analytics.
Put the grid next to your post analytics and keep the hours your network really responds to.
Is this a prediction for your own audience?
No. Every best-time tool, this one included, rests on large studies that average activity across millions of posts. The windows are a sensible first guess and say nothing specific about your own followers.
To fit the hours to your audience, open the analytics for your own LinkedIn posts. Good timing removes one obstacle, since you are no longer posting to an empty room. How far the post travels after that depends on how people respond during its first hour.
Where do these posting times come from?
The day-by-day hours are based on an analysis of more than 4.8 million LinkedIn posts, with each time converted to the audience's local time zone. Use them as a first draft of your schedule and confirm them against your own numbers.
How do you get reactions in that first hour?
Timing puts the post in front of people, and what they do in the first hour decides whether LinkedIn keeps showing it. On LinkedInLikes you can create a task for a fresh post, and other members open it and react or comment by hand from their own LinkedIn accounts.
Members write comments in their own words, and you spend points that you collect by supporting other members' posts. Read how it works for LinkedIn likes and LinkedIn comments.
Other free LinkedIn tools
- LinkedIn engagement rate calculator
- LinkedIn character counter
- LinkedIn post analyzer
- LinkedIn follower growth calculator
- All free LinkedIn tools
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- How LinkedIn pods work
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Next step: set the grid to your time zone, schedule your next post inside the top window for that day, and compare its first-hour reactions with your last few posts.
Frequently asked questions
On weekdays, post between 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. in your audience's local time. Wednesday at 4 p.m. ranks first, with Friday at 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. close behind.
Wednesday, with Thursday and Friday just behind it. Monday and Tuesday bring the fewest reactions and comments.
In 2026 the evening wins. Late-afternoon and evening posts now get more reactions than morning ones, a change from 2025, when the peak fell inside working hours.
Yes. They are expressed in local time, so 4 p.m. means 4 p.m. in the time zone of the people you want to reach.
No. It shows averaged research only. For numbers about your own followers, open the analytics of your posts inside LinkedIn.
Yes, as a first guess. Pages follow their own pattern, so compare the windows with your Page analytics and adjust.
LinkedIn uses early reactions, comments and reposts as signals when it decides how widely to show a post, so a quiet first hour works against you. On LinkedInLikes, members react to each other's new posts by hand from their own accounts. How far a post goes still depends on how your wider network responds.