Best Time to Post on Facebook in 2026
By Sean
Weekday mid-mornings — when the feed is busiest.
The single best time to post on Facebook is around 9 AM, especially on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday.
Facebook's feed favors meaningful interactions — comments and shares among people who actually know each other — and its most active windows are weekday mid-mornings. Posting then gives your content the early engagement it needs to surface in more feeds.
Weekday mornings
19 recommended windows across 5 days, in your local time. The brightest cells are 9 AM, which recurs on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday.
- Monday9 AM10 AM12 PM
- Tuesday8 AM9 AM10 AM1 PM3 PM
- Wednesday8 AM9 AM10 AM1 PM3 PM
- Thursday8 AM9 AM10 AM1 PM
- Friday9 AM10 AM
How the Facebook algorithm ranks content in 2026
- Comments and shares weigh far more than likes.
- Native video and photo posts out-reach link posts.
- Groups drive disproportionate organic reach compared with Pages in 2026.
- Content that sparks conversation between users gets the biggest boost.
4–6 posts per week, with 2–4 of them Reels; lean into video and community/Group engagement.
Sources
The windows above are our synthesis of the published engagement datasets listed first — which don't always agree with each other — and the ranking notes come from Facebook's own documentation.
- Buffer — Best time to post on Facebook — 14M posts analysed (checked )
- Sprout Social — Best times to post on social media (≈2B engagements, 307K profiles) (checked )
- Meta Transparency Center — Facebook Feed AI system card (checked )
- Meta Newsroom — News Feed FYI: Bringing People Closer Together (Adam Mosseri, 2018) (checked )