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Best Time to Post on Facebook — 2026 Guide

The best times to post on Facebook Pages by day, how reach differs for links, video and short updates, and how to find your own windows from real performance data.

The short answer

Facebook Page reach peaks between 09:00 and 12:00 in your audience's local time, with a second, softer lift between 19:00 and 21:00. Tuesday to Thursday mornings are the most dependable slots. A post keeps collecting reach for about five to six hours, so a missed window costs less here than on X — but early comments still decide how far it travels.

Best posting windows by day

Timing changes by post type

• Short updates belong in the mid-morning peak, where the most followers are online and reactions come fastest.
• Link posts do best late morning on a weekday, when people are more willing to leave the app — and only with real context written above the link.
• Video and Reels hold attention in the evening, especially Sunday, when scrolling is passive and sound-on viewing is more likely.
• Question posts work mid-week; comments arriving in the first hour are the single biggest driver of extended reach.

How Facebook differs from other networks

Facebook sits between the extremes. X posts die within the hour — see the X timing guide. TikTok can resurface a video days later, covered in the TikTok timing guide. LinkedIn circulates for a working day or two in the LinkedIn guide, and Instagram follows leisure routine in the Instagram guide. On Facebook, one or two well-timed posts a day beats a higher cadence.

How to find your own best time

1. Open your Page insights and note the hours when your followers are actually online.
2. Shortlist three windows and post into each at least five times before judging them.
3. Compare reach and comments in the first three hours, not lifetime totals.
4. Discount any post that was boosted — paid reach tells you nothing about the slot.
5. Keep the winner, retire the weakest window, and re-test each quarter as your audience shifts.

Let scheduling do the work

PostingPilot's best-time heatmap reads your real Page performance instead of industry averages, the planner fills empty slots with posts written in your voice, and direct Facebook publishing sends them without a middleman.