When is the WoW Forever auction house cheapest during the day?

Across PvP Horde EU, prices run cheapest around 02:00 UTC (03:00 CET), 3% under the daily average, and dearest around 04:00 UTC (05:00 CET), 3.7% over. The pattern is read from the hourly price of the market's largest positions over the last few weeks, each hour against the day around it.

How is the hour-of-day pattern worked out?

Every hourly price is divided by the same item’s average over the 24 hours around it, so a price drifting up or down over the month does not make one end of the day look dear, and the 24 hours are then centred so an average hour reads 1.000. The best buy window is the cheapest run of three hours and the best sell window the dearest. Hours are UTC, with the hour on the wall in the zone most of the market’s players keep beside them.

How much history does the pattern need?

Each hour of the day needs a few days of scans behind it before its figure means anything. The confidence line reads the thinnest hour: settled from ten days of scans, provisional from three, too early under that, and no pattern at all while fewer than half the hours have been scanned. Scanning PvP Horde EU through the night fills the gaps.

Best hours to buy and sell

Pick a market and an item. Every hour of the day shows its typical price, lowest buyout and listings, and the page names the cheapest hours to buy, the dearest to sell, and what the gap is worth after the 5 percent cut.

On PvP Horde EU, Skin-Flayed Footguards is cheapest from 12:00 to 15:00 UTC (13:00 to 16:00 CET) and dearest from 22:00 to 01:00 UTC (23:00 to 02:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 69% after the 5 percent cut.

Current market: PvP Horde EU. This browser opens every tool here until you pick another. Address for this market: ahledger.com/timing?market=forever/pvp/horde/eu

1MarketEach house keeps its own hours.2WindowDays of scans the hours are averaged over.3ItemKept while you switch market or window; type another below.

Item

Best hours to buy

12:00 to 15:00 UTC

13:00 to 16:00 CET · index 0.835 · typical 6g 95s 87c

Best hours to sell

22:00 to 01:00 UTC

23:00 to 02:00 CET · index 1.229 · typical 11g 63s

Spread after the 5% cut

+69%

buy at the cheap hours' lowest buyout, sell at the dear hours' typical price

Confidence

provisional

Provisional: the thinnest hour has 4 days of scans behind it over the last 28 days; 10 makes it settled.

Skin-Flayed Footguardsby hour · PvP Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Typical	Lowest	Listings	Index	Days
00:00	01:00	11g 14s	10g 53s	4	1.199	7
01:00	02:00	11g 31s	8g 19s 86c	4	1.229	7
02:00	03:00	11g 26s	8g 8s 83c	4	1.212	6
03:00	04:00	8g 34s 28c	7g 67s	5	0.982	5
04:00	05:00	14g 28s	14g 27s	2	1.397	5
05:00	06:00	11g 50s	6g 62s	5	1.265	4
06:00	07:00	7g 53s 20c	7g 43s 40c	4	0.928	5
07:00	08:00	7g 44s 17c	7g 36s	4	0.926	6
08:00	09:00	7g 54s 75c	7g 27s 40c	4	0.922	5
09:00	10:00	7g 48s 48c	7g 22s 50c	4	0.948	6
10:00	11:00	7g 31s	7g 22s 67c	3	0.897	6
11:00	12:00	7g 11s 88c	6g 99s 50c	2	0.856	6
12:00	13:00	7g 2s 64c	6g 47s 83c	3	0.840	6
13:00	14:00	6g 99s	6g 65s 67c	3	0.837	6
14:00	15:00	6g 85s 98c	6g 51s 83c	3	0.830	6
15:00	16:00	7g 51s 63c	7g 11s 86c	3	0.864	7
16:00	17:00	7g 83s 96c	7g 5s 86c	3	0.900	7
17:00	18:00	7g 53s 82c	6g 61s 83c	3	0.855	6
18:00	19:00	7g 97s 26c	7g 63s 29c	3	0.951	7
19:00	20:00	7g 57s 13c	6g 99s 83c	4	0.893	6
20:00	21:00	7g 77s 42c	7g 34s	4	0.914	6
21:00	22:00	6g 76s	6g 46s 40c	6	0.868	5
22:00	23:00	12g 49s	11g 71s	4	1.275	6
23:00	00:00	11g 26s	10g 95s	4	1.213	7

Under 1.000 is a cheap hour to buy; over 1.000 a good hour to sell. Days counts how many days that hour was scanned in the window. The same figures as JSON: /v1/timing/forever.pvp.horde.eu/287000 on the API.

The whole market by hour · PvP Horde EU

Hour (UTC)	CET	Price index	Listings index	Days
00:00	01:00	0.984	1.175	9
01:00	02:00	0.976	1.122	9
02:00	03:00	0.970	1.124	7
03:00	04:00	0.993	0.975	7
04:00	05:00	1.037	0.834	7
05:00	06:00	0.985	0.908	6
06:00	07:00	0.991	0.879	7
07:00	08:00	1.000	0.807	8
08:00	09:00	1.004	0.855	8
09:00	10:00	1.012	0.834	9
10:00	11:00	0.984	0.904	9
11:00	12:00	0.990	0.936	9
12:00	13:00	0.993	0.974	9
13:00	14:00	1.004	0.970	9
14:00	15:00	0.999	1.007	9
15:00	16:00	1.003	1.031	9
16:00	17:00	1.016	1.066	9
17:00	18:00	1.012	1.024	9
18:00	19:00	0.993	1.099	8
19:00	20:00	0.992	1.057	8
20:00	21:00	1.013	1.039	9
21:00	22:00	1.008	1.109	8
22:00	23:00	1.036	1.135	7
23:00	00:00	1.004	1.137	9

Each hour is indexed against the 24 hours around it, item by item across the market's largest positions, then centred so an average hour reads 1.000. For the day-of-week pattern, see market structure.

▸How this is worked out

Every hourly price is divided by the same item's average over the 24 hours around it, so a price drifting over the month does not make one end of the day look dear. The best buy window is the cheapest run of three hours and the best sell window the dearest; the spread buys at the cheap window's lowest buyout and sells at the dear window's typical price less the cut. Forever's history restarts at launch, so a live market's pattern never includes beta scans.

Common questions

When is the WoW Forever auction house cheapest during the day?: Across PvP Horde EU, prices run cheapest around 02:00 UTC (03:00 CET), 3% under the daily average, and dearest around 04:00 UTC (05:00 CET), 3.7% over. The pattern is read from the hourly price of the market's largest positions over the last few weeks, each hour against the day around it.
What is the best time of day to buy and sell Skin-Flayed Footguards?: On PvP Horde EU, Skin-Flayed Footguards is cheapest from 12:00 to 15:00 UTC (13:00 to 16:00 CET) and dearest from 22:00 to 01:00 UTC (23:00 to 02:00 CET). Buying in the cheap hours and selling in the dear ones returns about 69% after the 5 percent cut.
How is the hour-of-day pattern worked out?: Every hourly price is divided by the same item’s average over the 24 hours around it, so a price drifting up or down over the month does not make one end of the day look dear, and the 24 hours are then centred so an average hour reads 1.000. The best buy window is the cheapest run of three hours and the best sell window the dearest. Hours are UTC, with the hour on the wall in the zone most of the market’s players keep beside them.
How much history does the pattern need?: Each hour of the day needs a few days of scans behind it before its figure means anything. The confidence line reads the thinnest hour: settled from ten days of scans, provisional from three, too early under that, and no pattern at all while fewer than half the hours have been scanned. Scanning PvP Horde EU through the night fills the gaps.