When are the most cams live? An hourly census of the network

The most Chaturbate rooms are live at 21:00 UTC, which is 5pm ET, 10pm UK and 11pm CET. An average of 8,689 rooms are on air at that hour. The quietest hour is 10:00 UTC, with an average of 5,793 rooms. That makes the busiest hour 1.50x the size of the quietest.

This page is based on our own hourly census of the Chaturbate network. We could not find these figures published anywhere, so we started measuring them ourselves.

How this was measured

We read Chaturbate's public index of live rooms every five minutes and record the number of rooms on air in each category. Those readings are grouped into hourly buckets.

Each hourly figure is the sample-weighted mean of roughly twelve readings. This prevents a partial hour from having an outsized effect on the result.

• Period: 3 September 2026 at 17:00 UTC to 16 October 2026 at 19:00 UTC
• Hours recorded: 1,021 of a possible 1,035
• Individual readings: 12,233
• Gaps: 14 hours missing, plus 5 hours with fewer than 10 readings

The figures update hourly and always reflect the full period shown above, so they grow more reliable over time rather than going stale.

The hour-by-hour numbers

Average rooms on air for each hour of the day, with UTC alongside US Eastern, UK and Central European time. Local times follow daylight saving, so they are correct on the day you read them.

Average rooms on air by hour of day, 3 September 2026 at 17:00 UTC to 16 October 2026 at 19:00 UTC.

The overall pattern holds across the whole period. Room counts stay high overnight, fall to their lowest point during the late European morning, rise to an afternoon peak, dip again in the early evening, and reach their highest point late in the day.

That shape is geographic rather than behavioural: the regions do not clock on and off together, and the trough falls where the largest of them is asleep. Our census of cam tags and regions measures which parts of the network are on air at once, from the same hourly readings.

Categories do not peak at the same time

The network-wide peak hides a real difference between categories. The four categories reach their highest average room counts at different hours.

Busiest and quietest hour by category, all times UTC.

Female rooms peak 7 hours earlier than trans rooms. Male rooms show the largest relative swing across the day, with 63% more rooms at their peak than at their trough. Female rooms show the smallest swing at 49%.

Which days are busiest

Which day it is moves the room count too, though not in the way most people assume, and the table below states how that compares with the swing across a single day.

Average rooms on air by day of week, 3 September 2026 at 17:00 UTC to 16 October 2026 at 19:00 UTC.

Friday is the busiest day, averaging 8,102 rooms on air, and Sunday the quietest at 6,528 — 24% apart. Monday is the next quietest. That is a narrower spread than the 50% between the busiest and quietest hour of the day, so which hour you look at matters more than which day.

What this does and does not measure

This measures how many rooms are broadcasting, not how many people are watching. These are supply figures. A busy hour means there are more live rooms to choose from. It does not necessarily mean that each room has more viewers.

We do not publish viewer totals because our data only shows the busiest single room at any given moment. That is not a reliable basis for estimating the total audience across the network.

If you broadcast, the busiest hour is not automatically your best one. The hour with the most rooms on air is also the hour with the most rooms competing for the same viewers. Which hour earns you the most is a different question from which hour the network is fullest, and answering it needs your own takings rather than a figure measured across everybody.

The day-of-week table is held back until each weekday has been recorded at least three times. Early on, the middle of the week reshuffled from one week to the next while only the quietest and busiest days held their places, so a ranked list of seven days would have implied a precision the data did not have. The section above says so itself when the threshold has not been reached.

This covers one network. These figures describe Chaturbate specifically, and should not be treated as representative of live cam sites in general.

Using these figures

The figures on this page are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY 4.0). You may quote, reproduce or reuse them, commercially too, as long as you credit JustTheCams and link to this page. To link one hour or one category rather than the whole page, click it in either table and copy the address from your browser.

The underlying hourly series is a CSV file, under the same licence: one row per hour and category, with the average and highest number of rooms on air and the number of readings behind each hour.