The best hour to launch on pump.fun is the one nobody launches in
15.4 million launches by UTC hour, weekday and month. Coins launched at 06:00 UTC graduate 1.63% of the time; at 17:00 UTC, 1.21%. The weekday does nothing. And a check on whether March 2026 at noon was special.
Quick answer
The hour of day moves a pump.fun launch's odds by about a third and the day of the week moves them not at all. Coins launched at 06:00 UTC graduated 1.63% of the time and reached ten times their five-minute market cap 0.19% of the time; coins launched at 17:00 UTC graduated 1.21% of the time, and at 18:00 UTC the ten-times share was 0.12%. The good hours are the quiet ones: 07:00 UTC had 411,023 launches in the tables, 19:00 UTC had 891,958, and the graduation rate runs the other way. Monday to Sunday the rate sits between 1.30% and 1.34%.
By the hour
Every launch in the tables by the UTC hour of its create, with what happened to it. Dead, doubled and ten times are measured from five minutes of age over the following 24 hours.
| UTC hour | launches | graduated | dead in the next 24 h | doubled within 24 h | 10x within 24 h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | 653,833 | 1.31% | 46.4% | 1.74% | 0.15% |
| 01:00 | 603,603 | 1.40% | 45.8% | 1.83% | 0.15% |
| 02:00 | 559,770 | 1.49% | 44.7% | 1.90% | 0.15% |
| 03:00 | 521,203 | 1.52% | 43.8% | 1.90% | 0.15% |
| 04:00 | 478,620 | 1.49% | 43.5% | 1.98% | 0.14% |
| 05:00 | 443,730 | 1.52% | 42.8% | 1.99% | 0.14% |
| 06:00 | 419,873 | 1.63% | 41.6% | 2.08% | 0.19% |
| 07:00 | 411,023 | 1.55% | 40.3% | 2.13% | 0.17% |
| 08:00 | 415,021 | 1.49% | 39.8% | 2.11% | 0.16% |
| 09:00 | 431,351 | 1.46% | 39.9% | 2.05% | 0.17% |
| 10:00 | 454,322 | 1.38% | 40.1% | 1.96% | 0.14% |
| 11:00 | 492,113 | 1.35% | 40.7% | 1.90% | 0.15% |
| 12:00 | 555,334 | 1.37% | 42.0% | 1.89% | 0.15% |
| 13:00 | 646,478 | 1.34% | 43.3% | 1.78% | 0.15% |
| 14:00 | 730,101 | 1.31% | 44.8% | 1.76% | 0.15% |
| 15:00 | 809,447 | 1.22% | 45.8% | 1.68% | 0.14% |
| 16:00 | 851,111 | 1.24% | 46.8% | 1.66% | 0.13% |
| 17:00 | 884,578 | 1.21% | 47.1% | 1.62% | 0.12% |
| 18:00 | 883,634 | 1.22% | 47.4% | 1.60% | 0.12% |
| 19:00 | 891,958 | 1.21% | 47.3% | 1.60% | 0.12% |
| 20:00 | 877,834 | 1.22% | 47.4% | 1.63% | 0.13% |
| 21:00 | 850,477 | 1.22% | 46.9% | 1.67% | 0.14% |
| 22:00 | 803,567 | 1.26% | 46.3% | 1.70% | 0.16% |
| 23:00 | 723,046 | 1.26% | 46.3% | 1.68% | 0.16% |
Read the two columns that matter together. Launches climb from 411,023 at 07:00 UTC to 891,958 at 19:00 UTC, more than double, as the US wakes up and the afternoon session fills. Every outcome gets worse over the same climb: the graduation rate falls from 1.55% to 1.21%, the dead share rises from 40.3% to 47.3%, the doubled share falls from 2.13% to 1.60%. The best hour, 06:00 UTC, is 02:00 in New York and 14:00 in Singapore; the worst, 17:00 to 19:00 UTC, is the American afternoon, when the most coins compete for the same buyers.
A third more graduations per launch is the whole effect. It is real across 15 million launches and it is small against everything else in these reports: the bundle, the five-minute market cap and the deployer's record each move the odds by multiples, the clock moves them by a fraction.
By the weekday
| day | launches | graduated | 10x within 24 h |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday | 1,934,917 | 1.32% | 0.14% |
| Monday | 2,283,246 | 1.30% | 0.14% |
| Tuesday | 2,324,367 | 1.34% | 0.14% |
| Wednesday | 2,356,547 | 1.33% | 0.15% |
| Thursday | 2,310,048 | 1.33% | 0.15% |
| Friday | 2,190,243 | 1.34% | 0.14% |
| Saturday | 1,992,659 | 1.34% | 0.15% |
Weekends have fewer launches and the same odds. Whatever folk wisdom says about Sunday launches, the table says 1.32% against a weekday 1.30% to 1.34%.
Was there ever a magic hour?
The question we get asked is whether some month had an hour where everything ran: "in March 2026 every coin launched at noon did a 10x". We can check every month and every hour at once, 480 cells, each with its launches, graduations, and the share that doubled or did ten times from five minutes.
March 2026 at noon UTC: 29,323 launches, 1.71% graduated, 1.7% doubled, 0.07% reached ten times. The hour before and after: 1.73% and 1.69% graduated. Noon in March was an ordinary hour in an ordinary month; the month's best hour was 08:00 UTC and its worst 19:00 UTC, the same shape as the whole table.
The cells that do stand out, with at least five thousand measured launches each:
| month and UTC hour | launches | graduated | 10x within 24 h |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09, 06:00 | 28,372 | 4.60% | 0.33% |
| 2026-09, 07:00 | 28,019 | 4.48% | 0.28% |
| 2026-09, 05:00 | 30,970 | 4.32% | 0.28% |
| 2026-09, 08:00 | 28,380 | 4.22% | 0.32% |
| 2026-08, 07:00 | 30,366 | 3.71% | 0.40% |
The best cell in the table is September 2026 at 06:00 UTC: 4.60% of launches graduated, three and a half times the all-time rate. The highest ten-times share in any cell is May 2025 at 06:00 UTC, 0.51% of 21,568 measured launches. Both are the same hour of the day. The month matters more than the hour (September 2026 graduated 3.39% of everything, March 2025 0.41%), and within a month the early-UTC hours win almost every time: 03:00 to 08:00 UTC was the best hour in fourteen of the twenty months.
No cell comes near "every coin": the best ten-times share anywhere is one launch in two hundred.
What we counted
- The tables as of 2026-10-16, built from our archive of every pump.fun trade: 15,392,027 launches from 2025-03-07 to 2026-10-16; 204,606 graduations (1.33%).
- The hour and the weekday are the launch's create, by block time, in UTC. A month is a calendar month in UTC.
- Graduated: migrated to PumpSwap at any later time, counted against the launch's hour.
- Dead, doubled, 10x: measured on launches with a five-minute reading and the following 24 hours in the archive (13,378,522 launches). Dead means no priced trade in those 24 hours; doubled and 10x compare the highest market cap in the window with the five-minute market cap.
- The cell table shows month-hour cells with at least five thousand measured launches; October 2026 runs to the 16th and March 2025 from the 7th.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best time to launch a pump.fun coin?
By graduation rate, 06:00 UTC (1.63%), with 03:00 to 09:00 UTC all above 1.45%. The worst hours are 15:00 to 21:00 UTC, all at 1.21% to 1.24%. The weekday makes no measurable difference.
Does the day of the week matter for pump.fun launches?
No. The graduation rate by weekday runs from 1.30% (Monday) to 1.34% (Tuesday, Friday, Saturday), and the ten-times share from 0.14% to 0.15%.
Was there a month when launches at a certain hour all went up?
No. The strongest cell in 480 month-hour cells is September 2026 at 06:00 UTC, 4.60% graduated and 0.33% at ten times. March 2026 at noon, a specific claim we were asked about, was 1.71% and 0.07%.
Why are the quiet hours better?
The table does not say why; it says that the hours with half the launches have a third more graduations per launch and a lower dead share. Fewer coins per buyer is the obvious reading. The daily odds by hour are on https://pumpdata.fun/stats every morning, and the base rate for any window is GET https://pumpdata.fun/baserate, $0.005 a call.
Every number here comes straight from the blockchain, the same data behind the paid calls: the calls ($0.005 to $0.01 each, USDC over x402, no account), yesterday's /stats and the daily wire are free.