Best time to buy and sell on the Forever auction house
When World of Warcraft®: Forever auction houses list the most and the least, and when common trade goods are cheapest, from our hourly copies of Blizzard's auction data. Each hour is compared with the 24 hours around it, so the daily rhythm shows even while prices drift up or down from day to day.
EU
- Selling: fewest auctions are listed around 08:00 UTC (31% below normal), so there's the least competition then. Most are listed around 21:00 UTC (25% above).
- Buying: common trade goods are cheapest around 11:00 to 15:00 UTC, about 3% under their usual price, and dearest around 22:00 to 02:00 UTC, about 1% over.
Auctions listed, by hour all EU houses, last 14 days (6 with data)
Price of common trade goods, by hour near-lowest, last 7 days (7 with data)
The 20 common trade goods in EU PvP Horde, EU Normal Alliance, EU Normal Horde
The 20 items with the most units listed in the 3 EU houses with the most auctions, counted equally.
NA
- Selling: fewest auctions are listed around 16:00 UTC (19% below normal), so there's the least competition then. Most are listed around 04:00 UTC (16% above).
- Buying: common trade goods are cheapest around 11:00 to 15:00 UTC, about 3% under their usual price, and dearest around 03:00 to 07:00 UTC, about 2% over.
Auctions listed, by hour all NA houses, last 14 days (6 with data)
Price of common trade goods, by hour near-lowest, last 7 days (7 with data)
The 20 common trade goods in NA PvP Horde, NA Normal Horde, NA PvP Alliance
The 20 items with the most units listed in the 3 NA houses with the most auctions, counted equally.
How to read this
- Bars above the line are hours above normal, and bars below are under it. Normal is the average of the 24 hours around each hour, so a market that's getting cheaper day by day doesn't make late hours look cheap. An hour seen on fewer than 4 days has no bar.
- This is what happened over the last 14 days, not a forecast. The game is new and players' habits will shift. A weekday pattern will follow once there are three full weeks of data.
- Auctions listed count listings, not players. An hour we didn't collect for every house of a region is left out rather than counted as quiet.
- Each item page says when that item has usually been cheapest, where its own history shows a clear pattern.