The best time to post on LinkedIn is 7 AM to 12 PM, on weekdays. That morning window before lunch consistently beats the rest of the day. These hours are your audience’s local time, so 7 AM means 7 AM wherever your connections are. Convert them only if you’re scheduling from a different timezone than your audience.
Posting after 5 PM tends to underperform, and weekends are quiet across the board, which makes sense for a platform people mostly check during work hours.
Day by day
| Day | Best hours | How busy |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | 8 AM, 10 AM, 12 PM | Medium |
| Tuesday | 7 AM, 8 AM, 10 AM, 11 AM, 12 PM | High |
| Wednesday | 7 AM, 8 AM, 10 AM, 11 AM, 12 PM | High |
| Thursday | 7 AM, 8 AM, 10 AM, 11 AM, 12 PM, 2 PM | High |
| Friday | 8 AM, 10 AM, 12 PM | Medium |
| Saturday | 10 AM, 11 AM | Low |
| Sunday | 10 AM | Low |
The LinkedIn posting time tool shows this table on your own clock when you schedule from a different timezone than your audience.
Why these are a starting point and not an answer
This table reflects aggregate activity across a wide range of LinkedIn accounts, and your network is not the aggregate. A recruiter posting to a US audience and a founder posting to a network spread across Europe and Asia are not logging in at the same hour, even though both are, technically, “professionals.”
If most of your connections are concentrated in one region, read these hours on that region’s clock. Check where your audience is concentrated before you build a posting schedule around any general table, including this one.
How to find your own best time
Pick a post format you use regularly, a text post, a short video, a document carousel, and publish it at two different times over a few weeks. Keep the content type consistent so you’re comparing like with like. Look at impressions and reach rather than reactions alone, since reach tells you how far the post actually spread before anyone engaged.
LinkedIn’s own analytics on your profile or Page show follower activity patterns specific to your audience. That beats any general table for your own account.
What matters more than timing
Posting on a regular cadence matters more than nailing the exact hour. The first line, the part visible before “see more,” decides whether someone stops scrolling to read the rest. The format, whether it’s a text post, a carousel, or a video, shapes how far a post travels more than a one-hour shift in timing does.
Timing gives a strong post a small edge at the margin. It doesn’t rescue a post nobody had a reason to read.
