GTA 6 Unlock Times by Store Region

Unlock by store region

Every row below is the release time we read on that region's official PlayStation or Xbox store listing, marked Official store. A listing gives one instant per region. The Local unlock column shows it in the time zone where that instant is 00:00 on 19 November; we chose that zone, the store does not name one. The store region is the one on your PlayStation or Xbox account, not the time zone set on your device.

English storefronts come first (US, CA, GB, AU, NZ), then DE, JP, HK. A store region that is not listed follows the same Rockstar rule, midnight local time on 19 November, but this site has not checked its store listing, so it gets no countdown here.

Store listings marked Official store were last checked 2026-11-11 (Beijing time).

United States, Canada, and Australia: two readings

These three store regions cover more than one time zone, and each store listing still gives one instant. Rockstar's text does not say how that works. It names no city and no zone. For the United States, if the listing is one nationwide instant, it is 00:00 Eastern on 19 November, which is 21:00 PST on 18 November. If each US time zone unlocks at its own midnight, Los Angeles is 00:00 PST on 19 November, three hours later. Canada (Vancouver, on UTC-7 all year since British Columbia dropped clock changes in 2026) and Australia (Perth) have the same question. No store page we read gives a separate western time, so the two right-hand columns below are derived by this site, not read from a store. Zones between the two fall in between.

The countdown on this site uses the store listing instant (19 Nov 2026, 05:00 UTC for the United States). If you are west of the zone shown and the second reading turns out to be right, your unlock is later than the countdown.

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