Best Time to Post on LinkedIn: Times by Day and Hour

When is the best time to post on LinkedIn? It depends on when your audience is online, and studies disagree. This page compares the best times to post on LinkedIn by day for 2026 and shows today’s windows on your clock.

Updated 2026-10-28Sources citedFree · no signupReviewed by Ghassen Daoud

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Where published studies overlap on LinkedIn

A window is listed only when at least two independent studies cover the same hour for at least one hour. Times are the audience's local time, as the studies measure them. Studies from the same publisher count once. Nothing here is averaged.

Overlap of independent studies by weekday, LinkedIn
Day	Result	Overlap window (audience local time)	Studies
Monday	Sources disagree	None	Buffer, Sprout Social
Tuesday	Corroborated	3 pm to 5 pm	Buffer, Sprout Social
Wednesday	Corroborated	3 pm to 4 pm	Buffer, Sprout Social
Thursday	Corroborated	3 pm to 5 pm	Buffer, Sprout Social
Friday	Sources disagree	None	Buffer, Sprout Social
Saturday	No published data	None	None
Sunday	No published data	None	None

Studies behind the LinkedIn times

Each row is a published study we read on the date shown. Several publishers sell scheduling or analytics software, so treat them as vendor data. Collabios has no performance data of its own on this topic.

Source studies for LinkedIn: publisher, date, sample, metric and time-zone basis
Publisher	Published	Sample	Metric	Time zone	Read on
Buffer	2026-09-09	Over 4.8 million LinkedIn posts posts, Posts sent through Buffer, worldwide, not stated	Engagement volume	Audience local time	2026-10-28
Sprout Social	2026-03-31	Nearly 2 billion engagements across 307,000 profiles (all six networks) engagements, Brand accounts connected to Sprout, worldwide, 27 Nov 2025 to 27 Feb 2026	Not defined by the publisher	Audience local time	2026-10-28
Hootsuite (with Critical Truth)	2025-11-19	Over 1 million social posts posts, Analysed with Critical Truth; some heatmaps labelled Q4 2024, not stated	Not defined by the publisher	Not stated	2026-10-28
Social Champ	2026-08-05	2.6M LinkedIn posts posts, Account types not stated, not stated	Not defined by the publisher	Not stated	2026-10-28
Metricool	2026-05-21	More than 63,000 accounts and almost 674,000 posts posts, Metricool users; German-language page, not stated	Not defined by the publisher	Not stated	2026-10-28

Best time to post on LinkedIn by day

Best time to post on LinkedIn on Monday

Buffer (2026) lists 3 pm to 8 pm and Sprout Social (2026) lists 1 pm to 2 pm, both on audience local time. They do not overlap by an hour, so no Monday window is corroborated. Check your own analytics.

Best time to post on LinkedIn on Tuesday

Buffer (2026) and Sprout Social (2026) both include 3 pm to 5 pm audience local time. That is a tentative overlap from two sources. Hootsuite (2025) points to 6 am to 8 am, but does not state its time zone.

Best time to post on LinkedIn on Wednesday

Buffer (2026) and Sprout Social (2026) overlap from 3 pm to 4 pm audience local time. Buffer ranks 4 pm as its strongest single slot, which Sprout does not list. Treat the overlap as tentative.

Best time to post on LinkedIn on Thursday

Buffer (2026) and Sprout Social (2026) both include 3 pm to 5 pm audience local time, a tentative overlap from two sources. Hootsuite (2025) lists 2 pm to 3 pm with no stated time zone.

Best time to post on LinkedIn on Friday

Buffer (2026) lists 3 pm to 8 pm and Sprout Social (2026) lists 11 am to 12 pm and 1 pm to 2 pm. They do not overlap, so no Friday window is corroborated. Check your own analytics.

Best time to post on LinkedIn on Saturday

No corroborated window exists for Saturday. Sprout Social (2026) marks weekends as times to avoid, and Buffer (2026) lists no weekend window. Test it with your own audience before ruling it out.

Best time to post on LinkedIn on Sunday

No corroborated window exists for Sunday. Sprout Social (2026) marks weekends as times to avoid, and Buffer (2026) lists no weekend window. Test it with your own audience before ruling it out.

What LinkedIn says about timing

Lists impressions, members reached, reactions, comments, reposts, saves, sends, link clicks and viewer demographics, with no time-of-day breakdown, and warns the numbers are estimates. LinkedIn Help: Post analytics (read 2026-10-28).

Covers follower growth trends and follower demographics, and does not describe a chart of when followers are active. LinkedIn Help: Creator audience analytics (read 2026-10-28).

A 2024 roundup of third-party studies that advises testing and checking your own analytics because every audience differs. LinkedIn Marketing Solutions blog: What is the best time to post on LinkedIn (read 2026-10-28).

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Frequently asked questions

There is no single best time. Two measured studies, Buffer and Sprout Social (both 2026), overlap on Tuesday to Thursday from 3 pm to 5 pm audience local time. Others differ, so confirm with your own analytics.

Weekday afternoons show up most in the 2026 studies we could check, with Hootsuite (2025) the exception at early morning. Use the overlap as a starting point and test a few slots on your own audience.

The studies split. Buffer lists 3 pm to 8 pm on weekdays, Sprout Social lists late morning to mid afternoon, and Hootsuite lists early morning. Only Tuesday to Thursday afternoons overlap between independent studies.

Not one the evidence supports. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday have a tentative overlap. Monday and Friday show no corroborated window, and Sprout Social marks weekends as times to avoid.

No study we found publishes measured windows per country. Most normalise each post to the audience’s own clock, so pick where your audience is and read the window there.

They are on the audience’s clock. Choose where your audience is; the tool shows the window there and converts it to your own time zone, including daylight saving.

LinkedIn does not document a most-active-times chart. Compare impressions by posting day and hour in your post analytics. Use the times above as a starting point, then test a few slots and compare.