QHow many days until GTA 6?
21h 58m
Elapsed time to the first moment of , in Coordinated Universal Time. Recomputed in your browser when the page loads.
Grand Theft Auto VI is due on Thursday, 19 November 2026. The counter above is arithmetic on that one date, and only the date is a fact. The number, the table below and the days-to-launch figure in the bar at the top of every page here are the same single date read three different ways.
It counts to a day and stops there, because the hour has never been announced. A countdown showing you hours to "unlock" has picked a moment nobody published, and it will be wrong by up to a day across most of the world.
Last checked
The one figure a countdown cannot get from the announcement.
Rockstar has named a day and has never named a time on it. So the counter above runs to midnight UTC at the start of 19 November 2026 — not to the moment the game becomes playable, because that moment has not been published by anybody.
The one time-related arrangement that is on record is pre-load, a week earlier. Everything else about launch night, including the two ways a release of this size normally unlocks, is on unlock time and pre-load.
The date, the restatement, and the one week that is scheduled before it.
What is the counter counting to?
Thursday 19 November 2026.
Announced by Rockstar on 6 November 2025 and repeated in Take-Two's own filings and press releases ever since. Still the standing date as of 21 August 2026.
Confirmed Rockstar Games Newswire /
How current is that?
Restated to investors on 7 August 2026.
Zelnick: "excitement around the November 19th launch of Grand Theft Auto VI". This is the most recent first-party restatement of the date.
Confirmed Take-Two Interactive investor relations /
Anything before it?
Pre-load, from 12 November 2026.
Confirmed Take-Two Interactive press release /
| State | Claim | Source and date |
|---|---|---|
| Confirmed | Pre-orders opened on 25 June 2026 at midnight local time. | Take-Two Interactive press release |
| Confirmed | "Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look" premieres on 27 August 2026. | Rockstar Games Newswire |
| Confirmed | Pre-loading begins on 12 November 2026, one week before launch. | Take-Two Interactive press release |
| Confirmed | Boxed copies go on sale on 12 November 2026 so buyers can pre-load. | Game Informer |
| Confirmed | Grand Theft Auto VI is scheduled to release on Thursday, 19 November 2026. | Rockstar Games Newswire |
| Confirmed | Every purchase made before 20 November 2026 includes the Vintage Vice City Pack. | Take-Two Interactive press release |
| Unknown | Rockstar has not announced what time the game unlocks on 19 November 2026. | Absence of any first-party statement Open since · statements to cite: none |
Stated in first-party material, or shown in official footage. Two attributable sources where possible. Nothing reliable exists. Stated plainly rather than filled with speculation.
Six of the seven rows carry a published date. The seventh is the blank that a great many countdowns fill in for themselves. Nothing in this table is an estimate.
Three small differences. None of them about the date.
Put four countdown sites side by side and they will differ by a day. None of that is a disagreement about the release date; it is three much smaller things, and this page states which side of each one it is on.
| What differs | What it does to the number | What this page does |
|---|---|---|
| Whether today is counted | One day | Counts elapsed time, so it reads one lower than a calendar-day count |
| Which clock the day is measured on | Up to one day, near midnight | Counts in UTC, at build time and in your browser, so the two agree |
| An assumed unlock time | Up to one day | Assumes none, because none has been announced |
The counter in the bar at the top of this site is the first of those on purpose: it counts whole calendar days including today, which is how the question is usually meant, so it will read one higher than the tool on this page until midnight UTC. Both are reading the same date. Only the date is a fact.
One value.
The release date is held in a single place on this site, and every counter, every table row and every days-to-launch figure anywhere on it reads from that place — so a delay is one edit and a dated line in the record, not a quiet rewrite of the prose on forty pages.
The date has moved twice, and both times Rockstar announced the move rather than letting it be noticed. The full history is on every delay, in order, and the case for and against another is on will it be delayed again. Whether it moves a third time is the most-asked question about the date, and the honest answer is that nothing first-party supports one.
87 days
To 19 November 2026 · elapsed time · no unlock hour assumed