Best time to post in Australia/TikTok
Best time to post on TikTok in Australia.
Buffer puts the strongest hours at Sunday 9am, then Monday 1pm and Sunday 1pm, from 7.1 million TikTok videos, carousels, photos and text posts. Below is what that means once you account for the fact that your audience is spread across Australia.
Updated 2026-08-14
The window that reaches everyone
One instant, every clock.
Buffer’s strongest band for TikTok is 6pm to 11pm in local time. These are the hours on an eastern clock that land inside that band in every Australian time zone at the same time.
Winter, standard time
8pm, 9pm, 10pm AEST
Publish in this window and every Australian, Perth included, sees it inside the 6pm to 11pm band.
Summer, daylight saving
9pm, 10pm AEDT
The window narrows from 3 hours to 2. Daylight saving stretches the country from two hours wide to three.
Derived from published UTC offsets and Australian Bureau of Statistics population at 31 December 2025. The band itself is Buffer’s finding, not ours.
Day by day
TikTok, every day of the week.
All hours are local time, exactly as published. Best day is Saturday, then Monday and Sunday. Weakest is afternoons generally, 12pm to 5pm.
| Day | Best hour | Also strong |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | 1pm | 11am, 8am |
| Tuesday | 6am | 10pm, 7am |
| Wednesday | 10pm | 6am, 9pm |
| Thursday | 1pm | 10pm, 6am |
| Friday | 6pm | 10pm, 8pm |
| Saturday | 5pm | 4pm, 3pm |
| Sunday | 9am | 1pm, 12pm |
Where this number comes from
Buffer: The Best Time to Post on TikTok in 2026
- Sample
- 7.1 million TikTok videos, carousels, photos and text posts
- Period
- not stated on the page
- Published
- 20 July 2026
- Which clock
- Weaker than the others. Buffer says only that the times are "a starting point regardless of where you live" because the data "reflects patterns across a wide range of Buffer users around the world". It does not claim local-time normalisation, so treat TikTok hours as less certain than Instagram or LinkedIn.
Read this before you use the table
This is the least certain of the five. Buffer does not claim the TikTok hours are normalised to local time, only that they are a starting point drawn from users worldwide. The daily figures also swing hard between mornings and late evenings, which is not what you would expect from a stable signal.
Sense check
What 8pm on the east coast actually looks like.
Same instant, eight capitals, both halves of the year. This is the table worth keeping next to your scheduler.
Winter, standard time
| City | Local clock when Sydney reads 8pm |
|---|---|
| Sydney | ▸8pm |
| Melbourne | ▸8pm |
| Brisbane | ▸8pm |
| Adelaide | ▸7:30pm |
| Perth | ▸6pm |
| Darwin | ▸7:30pm |
| Hobart | ▸8pm |
| Canberra | ▸8pm |
Summer, daylight saving
| City | Local clock when Sydney reads 8pm |
|---|---|
| Sydney | ▸8pm |
| Melbourne | ▸8pm |
| Brisbane | ▸7pm |
| Adelaide | ▸7:30pm |
| Perth | ▸5pm |
| Darwin | ▸6:30pm |
| Hobart | ▸8pm |
| Canberra | ▸8pm |
Questions
TikTok in Australia.
What is the best time to post on TikTok in Australia?+
Buffer's figures put TikTok's strongest band at 6pm to 11pm local time, from 7.1 million TikTok videos, carousels, photos and text posts. To land that band everywhere in Australia at once, publish between 8pm and 9pm and 10pm AEST in winter, and between 9pm and 10pm AEDT during daylight saving.
What is the best day to post on TikTok?+
Saturday, then Monday and Sunday. The weakest is afternoons generally, 12pm to 5pm. These are Buffer's findings from 7.1 million TikTok videos, carousels, photos and text posts, published 20 July 2026.
How reliable are these TikTok times?+
This is the least certain of the five. Buffer does not claim the TikTok hours are normalised to local time, only that they are a starting point drawn from users worldwide. The daily figures also swing hard between mornings and late evenings, which is not what you would expect from a stable signal.
Do these times need converting for Australia?+
Weaker than the others. Buffer says only that the times are "a starting point regardless of where you live" because the data "reflects patterns across a wide range of Buffer users around the world". It does not claim local-time normalisation, so treat TikTok hours as less certain than Instagram or LinkedIn.
Compare every platform on the Australian posting times hub, see all seven days on the best day to post page, or read the method.
Engagement hours on this page are third-party figures, quoted as published, with the sample size and analysis period next to each one. The Australian timezone analysis is ours, computed from published UTC offsets and Australian Bureau of Statistics population figures. We publish no engagement numbers of our own, and the method page explains exactly why.
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