How long until GTA 6 comes out?

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This GTA 6 countdown runs to your own local midnight on 19 November 2026, or to the store region you pick, because the game unlocks region by region. There is no single moment: the game unlocks at local midnight in each store region, so the honest countdown depends on where your account is registered, and the one above lets you pick.

What the timer counts down to

Source scope, 6 November 2026. Rockstar Support says GTA 6 releases at midnight local time on 19 November on both PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. The region options use PlayStation Store timestamps. Pre-loading on 10 November is separate from unlock on 19 November.

By default it runs to 00:00 on 19 November 2026 on the clock of the device you are reading this on. For most people that is the right answer, because the PlayStation Store timestamps resolve to local midnight in every region that has been read so far. The exception is a country that spans several time zones: the store gives it one national timestamp. The United States unlocks at midnight in New York, which is 9pm on 18 November in Los Angeles, and Australia unlocks at midnight in Sydney, which is 9pm in Perth. If your device is set to one of those time zones (Los Angeles, Honolulu, Perth, Manaus, Tijuana or the Canary Islands, for example), the timer preselects your country’s store region and says so under the list. If your account is registered in another country, pick its store region from the list and the timer switches to that timestamp.

The fifteen regional windows, and where each timestamp comes from, are on the unlock time page. By GTA BOOM’s reading of those timestamps, New Zealand is first, at 11:00 UTC on 18 November, and Mexico and Central America are last, 19 hours later.

The dates between now and launch

Could the countdown move again?

It has moved twice already: from a 2025 window to 26 May 2026, and from there to 19 November 2026. The delays page has both announcements. Since then the signals all point one way. Pre-orders are open at a fixed price, the pre-load date is published, on Rockstar’s Newswire of 3 November 2026, and the platform stores carry hard timestamps. None of that makes a third delay impossible, and if Rockstar or Take-Two announces one, the timer on this page changes the same day. The release date page carries the date and the sources behind it.

What we do not know

• Whether every Xbox market matches its PlayStation timestamp. Rockstar Support gives the rule, midnight local time on both consoles, but there is no published list per Xbox market. The timer options above are PlayStation Store timestamps.
• Whether the store timestamps change before launch. GTA BOOM read the regional set on 7 September 2026. If one moves, the timer changes with it.
• When a PC version arrives. There is no date to count down to, and the PC page says why.