What time does WoW: Forever launch? Every region's local time

WoW: Forever launches on Wednesday 4 November 2026 at 3:00 p.m. PST. That is 23:00 UTC. This is confirmed: Blizzard says it in its pre-purchase article and again in its BlizzCon recap.

Blizzard's word is "globally". There is no staggered, region-by-region start. Every region opens at the same instant, so the local time depends only on where you live.

You need an active subscription or Game Time to play. Nothing else is required at launch.

What Blizzard hasn't said: which clock each region's servers will show. Blizzard gives the launch in Pacific time, and in local time on some of its other-language pages, but has not published a server time for each region. The times below are the one launch moment, converted.

Where	Local time
US Pacific (PST)	3:00 p.m., Wednesday 4 November
US Mountain (MST)	4:00 p.m., Wednesday 4 November
US Central (CST)	5:00 p.m., Wednesday 4 November
US Eastern (EST)	6:00 p.m., Wednesday 4 November
Hawaii (HST)	1:00 p.m., Wednesday 4 November
Brasília (BRT)	8:00 p.m., Wednesday 4 November

Watch the clocks change. US clocks go back on Sunday 1 November, three days before launch. That is why Blizzard writes PST, not PDT. If you work it out from a converter set to summer time, you will be an hour out.

Where	Local time
UK and Ireland (GMT)	11:00 p.m., Wednesday 4 November
Central Europe (CET): Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Stockholm	Midnight, Thursday 5 November
Eastern Europe (EET): Helsinki, Athens, Bucharest	1:00 a.m., Thursday 5 November

Blizzard's own German and French pages give the Central European time directly: "00:00 Uhr MEZ" on 5 November, and "minuit (heure française)". That is confirmed, and it is the same moment as 3:00 p.m. PST.

If you booked a day off, book Thursday. On the continent the servers open at the start of the 5th, so launch night runs into Thursday morning.

Where	Local time
Korea (KST)	8:00 a.m., Thursday 5 November
Taiwan (UTC+8)	7:00 a.m., Thursday 5 November

Those are the global launch moment, converted. Two of Blizzard's own pages agree with them: the Korean pre-purchase article says 8:00 a.m. Korea time, and the Taiwanese BlizzCon recap says 7:00 a.m. Taiwan time.

Two other Blizzard pages say something else. The Korean BlizzCon recap says 3:00 a.m. Korea time, and the Taiwanese pre-purchase article says 9:00 p.m. Taiwan time. Neither matches 3:00 p.m. PST, and each disagrees with Blizzard's other page in the same language. We read both as errors until Blizzard says otherwise: the launch is "global", and every other page gives the same single moment. This conflict is reported, and we will update this page if Blizzard corrects either one.

Elsewhere in Asia-Pacific, converted from 23:00 UTC: 10:00 a.m. in Sydney (AEDT), 7:00 a.m. in Perth, and noon in Auckland (NZDT), all on Thursday 5 November.

Two dates come first. Both are confirmed by Blizzard:

• 21 October: the last full day of the beta.
• 27 October to 3 November, Pacific time: Early Name Reservation. You can "create and customize up to three characters" and reserve their names, first come, first served. It comes with any upgrade purchase, not with a subscription alone. Blizzard's Korean page gives the window as 28 October to 4 November, Korea time.

Blizzard has not published opening and closing hours for the reservation window.

What to do with those dates, from which pack you need to the names to have ready, is in launch week: what to do before 4 November.