Thursday at 10:00 UTC: The Short Answer
The GTA Online weekly reset happens every Thursday at 10:00 UTC. That is the moment the new event week goes live, with fresh bonuses, discounts, a new podium vehicle and a new Prize Ride.
Rockstar does not publish an official to-the-minute time. The 10:00 UTC figure is the one reputable trackers and guides agree on, and it matches how the bonuses actually flip in game on Thursday mornings.
In Pakistan that reset is 3:00 PM on Thursday. In the UK it is 10:00 AM in winter and 11:00 AM in summer, and on the US East Coast it is 5:00 AM in winter and 6:00 AM in summer.
One event week runs from Thursday through to the following Wednesday. When Rockstar announces dates for a bonus week, those Wednesday end dates are this reset working in reverse.
Key Takeaways
- The weekly reset is every Thursday at 10:00 UTC, and the UTC time never moves for daylight saving.
- Local clock times do move: zones that change their clocks jump by one hour in spring and fall back in autumn.
- Bonuses, discounts, the podium vehicle, the Prize Ride, showroom cars and the Gun Van stock all change at the reset.
- The Weekly Challenge, the Garment Factory Priority File, Salvage Yard robberies and first-completion heist bonuses are all tied to the weekly window.
- A separate daily reset runs at 06:00 UTC and handles Daily Challenges, daily collectibles and the Gun Van location.
- GTA+ runs monthly, not weekly: its cash deposit and rotating benefits follow your billing cycle, not Thursday.
1. The Reset Time in Every Major Time Zone
Because the reset is fixed to UTC, converting it is simple arithmetic. Add or subtract your zone's offset from 10:00 UTC and you have your Thursday reset time.
Zones that observe daylight saving have two answers, one for standard time and one for daylight time. Both are shown below, so the table stays correct all year round.
| Time zone | Standard time | Daylight time |
|---|---|---|
| UTC | Thursday 10:00 | Thursday 10:00 |
| UK (GMT / BST) | 10:00 GMT | 11:00 BST |
| Central Europe (CET / CEST) | 11:00 CET | 12:00 CEST |
| US Eastern (EST / EDT) | 05:00 EST | 06:00 EDT |
| US Central (CST / CDT) | 04:00 CST | 05:00 CDT |
| US Pacific (PST / PDT) | 02:00 PST | 03:00 PDT |
| Dubai (GST, UTC+4) | Thursday 14:00 | No daylight saving |
| Pakistan (PKT, UTC+5) | Thursday 15:00 | No daylight saving |
| India (IST, UTC+5:30) | Thursday 15:30 | No daylight saving |
| Japan (JST, UTC+9) | Thursday 19:00 | No daylight saving |
| Australia, Sydney (AEST / AEDT) | 20:00 AEST | 21:00 AEDT |
Every row is the same Thursday moment. Only the Australian daylight row lands late in the evening, and no major zone is pushed into Friday by this reset.
Parts of Australia that do not observe daylight saving, such as Queensland, stay on AEST all year. Their reset stays at 20:00 while Sydney and Melbourne move to 21:00 in summer.
If your zone is not listed, take 10:00 UTC and apply your current offset. That method never fails, because UTC itself is the fixed point Rockstar's schedule is built around.
2. Why Your Local Time Moves but UTC Does Not
Daylight saving is the whole reason players get confused twice a year. The reset stays at 10:00 UTC forever, but your local clock changes underneath it.
When the UK moves from GMT to BST, clocks go forward one hour, so a 10:00 UTC reset that was 10:00 AM locally becomes 11:00 AM locally. Nothing about the game changed.
The same shift hits the United States and Central Europe. US Eastern moves from 05:00 EST to 06:00 EDT, and Central Europe moves from 11:00 CET to 12:00 CEST.
Dubai, Pakistan, India and Japan never change their clocks, so their reset times are the same in January and July. Players there never need to adjust for the season.
The practical rule is simple. If your country changed its clocks this month, your reset hour changed with them, even though Rockstar did nothing at all.
3. What Actually Changes at the Weekly Reset
The reset is best understood as a new event week starting. Rockstar announces that week on the Newswire, usually in a Thursday post, and everything tied to the week turns over together.
First, the money changes. A new set of activities pays bonus GTA$ and RP, commonly 2X or 3X, and a new set of vehicles and properties goes on discount, typically for that week only.
Second, the cars rotate. The Diamond Casino podium vehicle changes, giving you a new car to chase on the Lucky Wheel, and the LS Car Meet Prize Ride changes, with a new placement challenge to earn it.
The showrooms and trials rotate too. Luxury Autos and Premium Deluxe Motorsport stock new cars, the test rides change, and the Time Trial, HSW Time Trial and Premium Race move to new events.
This is also why Thursday reorders your earning plans. A method that was ordinary on Wednesday can be the best-paying job in the game on Thursday, which is why our guide to how to make money fast in GTA Online starts by telling you to check the week's bonuses before you grind anything.
4. The Weekly Jobs, Files and Robberies That Reset
Alongside the headline bonuses, a layer of weekly-limited work quietly refreshes at the reset. Missing these is where regular players leave the most money on the table.
The Weekly Challenge in your Interaction Menu offers one objective for all players, paying GTA$100,000 and RP on completion. One honest detail: the GTA Wiki documents the challenge objective itself as refreshing at 07:00 UTC on Thursday, a few hours before the bonuses flip, so finish the old one well before Thursday morning.
At the Garment Factory, one of the FIB Files becomes the Priority File each week. Trackers list the Priority File as paying double, and it can only be completed once per weekly reset for that boosted payout.
Salvage Yard robberies rotate on the same weekly rhythm. A fresh set of three robbery targets arrives each week, and the robbery allowance works on a weekly cap rather than a daily one.
Since July 2026, first completions matter more than they used to. Trackers report that heists pay a boosted reward for the host's first completion in the current weekly period, with repeats paying less until the next reset, so the full picture in our GTA Online heist payouts guide is worth reading alongside the weekly list.
5. The Gun Van: Weekly Stock on a Daily Move
The Gun Van runs on both clocks at once, which makes it the easiest system in the game to misunderstand. Its stock and its location follow different resets.
Its stock changes every Thursday with the weekly update. The weapons, throwables and armour on offer, and any deeper discounts on featured items, belong to the current event week.
Its location changes every day at the daily reset. The van parks at a different spot each day, so Thursday's stock can be sold from a new location before the week has even settled.
If a weapon you want is discounted this week, buy it before the reset even if you have to hunt for the van. Next Thursday the stock list is redrawn, and that discount may not return for months.
The van also sells at a standard discount below list price, with GTA+ members getting a larger cut. Weekly featured deals sit on top of that, which is why Thursday is the day to compare its prices.
6. What Does Not Reset on Thursday
Not everything in GTA Online follows the Thursday clock. Assuming it does leads to missed claims and wasted trips, so the exceptions are worth learning.
GTA+ is the biggest exception. It is a monthly membership: Rockstar's own GTA+ page describes a GTA$500,000 deposit paid on your monthly billing date, and the rotating member benefits change monthly, not at the weekly reset.
The Lucky Wheel spin is another exception. Your free spin returns 24 hours after your last spin, counted from your own timer, not from any reset. The car on the podium changes on Thursday, but your eligibility does not.
Longer events ignore the weekly boundary too. Rockstar sometimes runs bonuses across several weeks, and those keep their own announced end dates instead of stopping at the next Thursday.
Big content updates are separate again. Major DLC releases land on their own launch days, historically often a Tuesday, and are not part of the weekly reset at all.
7. The Other Clock: The Daily Reset at 06:00 UTC
Underneath the weekly rhythm sits a daily reset at 06:00 UTC. It handles the small, everyday rotations, and it runs seven days a week, Thursdays included.
Daily Challenges refresh at 06:00 UTC, bringing a new set of three objectives. The GTA Wiki gives the same 06:00 UTC time, which is 2:00 AM EDT and 11:00 PM PDT the night before in US daylight time.
Daily collectibles rotate then as well, along with the Stash House, Street Dealers and the Gun Van location covered above. Trackers group all of these onto the 06:00 UTC tick.
In Pakistan the daily reset is 11:00 AM, in India 11:30 AM, in Dubai 10:00 AM and in Japan 3:00 PM. In the UK it is 6:00 AM on GMT and 7:00 AM on BST.
Keeping the two clocks apart is the whole trick. If something is described as daily, think 06:00 UTC. If it is described as weekly, think Thursday at 10:00 UTC.
8. How to Plan Your Week Around Thursday
A little planning turns the reset from a deadline into an advantage. Most of it comes down to doing weekly-limited work in the right order.
On Wednesday, finish anything that expires. Complete the Weekly Challenge, run the Priority File if you have not, use any discount you were planning to buy with, and take your last shots at the outgoing Prize Ride challenge.
The Prize Ride needs planning earlier than Wednesday. Its challenge usually asks for strong finishes on consecutive days, so starting it on Tuesday night leaves no room for a bad race or a missed day.
On Thursday after the reset, read the Newswire before you play. Ten minutes of reading tells you which activities pay double or triple, and that answer should decide what you grind all week, as our roundup of the best businesses in GTA Online explains when it weighs weekly bonuses against steady business income.
Do your first completions early in the week. First-completion heist bonuses, the boosted Priority File and the Salvage Yard allowance all refresh at the reset, so banking them early means a quiet Wednesday never costs you money.
Finally, let the background keep working between resets. Businesses that produce and fill safes while you do other things pair naturally with a Thursday routine, which is exactly the rhythm our guide to passive income in GTA Online is built around.
Whether the next game keeps this same Thursday rhythm is still unknown, because its online mode has not been detailed yet — our look at when GTA 6 Online will release tracks what has actually been said. For now, Thursday at 10:00 UTC remains the heartbeat of this game.
Frequently Asked Questions
What day is the GTA Online weekly reset?
The weekly reset is every Thursday. It has run on Thursdays for years, and Rockstar announces each new event week on the Newswire on that day.
What time is the GTA Online weekly reset in UTC?
The reset is at 10:00 UTC on Thursday. Rockstar does not publish an official exact time, but reputable trackers and guides consistently give 10:00 UTC, and in-game bonuses flip then.
What time is the weekly reset in Pakistan?
The reset is at 3:00 PM PKT on Thursday. Pakistan is UTC+5 and does not observe daylight saving, so the time is 15:00 all year round.
What time is the weekly reset in the UK and the US?
In the UK it is 10:00 AM on GMT in winter and 11:00 AM on BST in summer. On the US East Coast it is 5:00 AM EST in winter and 6:00 AM EDT in summer, and on the West Coast 2:00 AM PST or 3:00 AM PDT.
Does daylight saving change the GTA Online reset?
It changes your local clock time, not the reset itself. The reset stays fixed at 10:00 UTC, so when your clocks go forward in spring, the reset appears one hour later locally.
What changes at the weekly reset?
Bonus GTA$ and RP activities, discounts, the casino podium vehicle, the LS Car Meet Prize Ride, showroom stock, test rides, time trials and Gun Van stock all change. The event week that ends is replaced by a new one running Thursday to Wednesday.
When does the GTA Online daily reset happen?
The daily reset is at 06:00 UTC every day. It refreshes Daily Challenges, daily collectibles, the Stash House, Street Dealers and the Gun Van location, separate from the Thursday weekly reset.
Is GTA+ part of the weekly reset?
No. GTA+ is a monthly membership, so its GTA$500,000 deposit arrives on your monthly billing date and its rotating benefits change monthly. Some GTA+ perks boost weekly activities, but the membership itself never resets on Thursday.
Do I need to log out for the weekly reset to apply?
Usually not for long. If you are in game when the reset lands, joining a new session or restarting the game makes sure the new bonuses, podium car and discounts load in correctly.
What should I do before the weekly reset?
Finish the Weekly Challenge, complete the Priority File, use expiring discounts and complete any first-completion heist bonuses you want for that week. Anything weekly-limited that is unfinished when Thursday 10:00 UTC passes is replaced, not carried over.
Final Thoughts
The GTA Online weekly reset is Thursday at 10:00 UTC, every week, in every country at the same moment. Convert it once for your time zone, remember that daylight saving moves your local hour but never the reset, and keep it separate from the daily 06:00 UTC tick and the monthly GTA+ cycle.
Plan backwards from it: weekly-limited work first, first completions early, discounts bought before they expire. Do that, and Thursday stops being the day things vanish and becomes the day your week is worth the most.
