GTA 6 Countdown: Live Clock, Release Time by Time Zone and a Free Launch Checklist

Last checked Oct. 23, 2026, 3:05 a.m. ET. The PlayStation Store listings and the Xbox store page still show Nov. 19, 2026. We recheck them before each update.

Grand Theft Auto (GTA) VI launches Thursday, Nov. 19, 2026, and from Friday, Oct. 23 that is 27 days away. The exact moment depends on your store: the US PlayStation Store lists 12:00 a.m. Eastern Time (ET), which is 9 p.m. Pacific Time (PT) on Wednesday, Nov. 18. The clock below counts down to the store you pick.

GTA 6 countdown clock

The clock needs JavaScript. Without it, use the table below. It counts from the instant in the store listing, never from your device’s idea of midnight, except in the last option, which says so. Each listing shows a Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) timestamp, and the clock does the same conversion for your time zone.

What time does GTA 6 come out?

The PlayStation Store lists a release time in UTC on every product page we could load, and the times differ by country. That points to a local-midnight release in each store, not one worldwide moment. Rockstar Games has not published a separate release schedule, so these are the store listings, converted.

PlayStation Store	Listing shows	Local time	In Eastern Time	In Pacific Time
US	Nov. 19, 05:00 UTC	12:00 a.m. ET, Thu., Nov. 19	12:00 a.m., Thu., Nov. 19	9 p.m., Wed., Nov. 18
Canada	Nov. 19, 05:00 UTC	12:00 a.m. ET, Thu., Nov. 19	12:00 a.m., Thu., Nov. 19	9 p.m., Wed., Nov. 18
UK	Nov. 19, 00:00 UTC	12:00 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)	7 p.m., Wed., Nov. 18	4 p.m., Wed., Nov. 18
Germany	Nov. 18, 23:00 UTC	12:00 a.m. Central European Time (CET), Thu., Nov. 19	6 p.m., Wed., Nov. 18	3 p.m., Wed., Nov. 18
India	Nov. 18, 18:30 UTC	12:00 a.m. India Standard Time (IST), Thu., Nov. 19	1:30 p.m., Wed., Nov. 18	10:30 a.m., Wed., Nov. 18

Nov. 19 falls after U.S. clocks go back on Nov. 1, so Eastern Time is standard time (UTC minus 5 hours) on launch day. The Canadian listing carries the same timestamp as the US one.

GTA 6 release time in the US time zones

The US listing’s 05:00 UTC converts like this on Wednesday, Nov. 18 and Thursday, Nov. 19:

US time zone	Local time
Eastern Time (ET)	12:00 a.m., Thu., Nov. 19
Central Time (CT)	11 p.m., Wed., Nov. 18
Mountain Time (MT)	10 p.m., Wed., Nov. 18
Pacific Time (PT)	9 p.m., Wed., Nov. 18

If the US store’s moment applies to you, the West Coast gets the game on Wednesday evening, not at midnight. The listing is for the storefront, so the one to read is the one that matches your console account’s store region. Neither Sony nor Rockstar has said what happens when that region differs from where you live.

What we could not confirm

• Xbox. The Xbox store page lists a release date of 11/19/2026 and no time or time zone.
• Australia and Japan. We could not load those PlayStation Store listings, so there is no time for them here.
• Other countries. We checked five stores. Mexico, Brazil and the rest of the list are not in this story.
• Pre-load time. Take-Two Interactive says digital pre-orders can pre-load from Nov. 12, and the PlayStation listing shows a “7-Day Pre-load.” Neither gives an hour.

GTA 6 release date at a glance

Item	Detail	Source
Release date	Thursday, Nov. 19, 2026	Rockstar Games
Platforms	PlayStation 5 (PS5) and Xbox Series X|S	Rockstar Games
PC	No version or date announced	Rockstar Games
Pre-load	From Nov. 12 for digital pre-orders	Take-Two Interactive
US price	$79.99 Standard, $99.99 Ultimate	PlayStation Store
UK price	£69.99 Standard, £89.99 Ultimate	PlayStation Store
Canada price	$109.99 Standard, $139.99 Ultimate	PlayStation Store
Germany price	€79.99 Standard, €99.99 Ultimate	PlayStation Store
India price	Rs 5,999 Standard, Rs 7,499 Ultimate	PlayStation Store

For the full list of announcements, the pre-order bonus and Rockstar’s Thursday pattern, see our story on what Rockstar has confirmed.

How many days until GTA 6?

From Friday, Oct. 23, it is 27 days to Thursday, Nov. 19 by the calendar. The live clock above gives the exact figure. The day count shifts by one depending on which instant you count to: the UK store opens 5 hours before the US one, and India’s opens 10 and a half hours before it.

Date	Days to launch
Thu., Oct. 29	21
Thu., Nov. 5	14
Thu., Nov. 12	7
Mon., Nov. 16	3
Wed., Nov. 18	1
Thu., Nov. 19	0, launch day

Free GTA 6 launch checklist to print

The printable puts the countdown milestones, the five store release times in Eastern Time and a short get-ready list on one US Letter page. Use the ink-saving version for a home printer. It is a static sheet: it does not update itself, so check the clock above if a date changes. It uses no game art or logos.

GTA 6 countdown on an iPhone or a website

Fresh Calendars does not offer a native iPhone widget or an embed code. To keep this clock close on an iPhone, open this page in Safari, tap Share, then choose Add to Home Screen. That makes a shortcut to the page, and the clock starts when it opens. It is not a Home Screen widget that ticks on its own. A calendar app with a countdown widget is the other route; check the App Store listing for what it supports.

How we keep this accurate

We read the PlayStation Store listings, the Xbox store page and Rockstar’s pages on the date above. If Rockstar, Sony or Microsoft changes the date or a store time, the table, the clock and the printable will change together, and the callout at the top will show the new check time. To plan the month around the launch, use our November 2026 printable calendar or a weekly planner, and see November 2026 important dates for everything else on the calendar. Thanksgiving is a week after launch; our Thanksgiving 2026 guide has the details.