GetHelpRecovery Access by Time of Day
Help often feels most urgent after dark. This report shows when recovery meetings in GetHelp's live U.S. feeds actually start: hour by hour, day by day, so you can see the late-night access gap next to peak evening coverage.
Last updated July 21, 2026 · 33,935 meetings with a start time · Free to reuse (CC BY 4.0)
Meetings by time of day
- Late night (10 PM–5 AM)522 · 1.5%
- Morning (6–11 AM)5,701 · 16.8%
- Afternoon (12–5 PM)7,571 · 22.3%
- Evening (6–9 PM)20,141 · 59.4%
Pair this with when people search for help to see whether demand rises when meeting supply is thinnest.
Start times by hour
- 12 AM21
- 1 AM0
- 2 AM9
- 3 AM0
- 4 AM0
- 5 AM21
- 6 AM318
- 7 AM1,551
- 8 AM680
Meetings by day of week
| Day | Meetings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | 4,260 | 12.6% |
| Monday | 5,129 | 15.1% |
| Tuesday | 5,056 | 14.9% |
| Wednesday | 5,069 | 14.9% |
| Thursday | 4,997 | 14.7% |
| Friday | 4,904 | 14.5% |
| Saturday | 4,520 | 13.3% |
In person, online, and hybrid
- 82.1%In person27,873 listings
- 13.1%Online4,442 listings
- 4.8%Hybrid1,620 listings
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GetHelp. (2026). Recovery Access by Time of Day. Retrieved from https://gethelptonight.com/recovery-access-by-time
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<p>Source: <a href="https://gethelptonight.com/recovery-access-by-time" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Recovery Access by Time of Day 2026</a> by GetHelp. Only 1.5% of tracked meetings start late at night (10 PM–5 AM).</p>Methodology
Weekly meeting start times from live GetHelp sources (US Meeting Guide / TSML feeds for AA and Al-Anon, plus BMLT Aggregator for NA by state). Hours use each listing's local start time. Online-only rows without a start time are excluded from hour/day charts. Attendance inferred from Meeting Guide attendance_option / types and BMLT venue_type.
See also our data sources and the companion U.S. Recovery Meeting Statistics report.
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Recovery access by time FAQ
- When are most recovery meetings held?
- In GetHelp's live U.S. feeds, the peak start hour is 7 PM (11,572 weekly meetings, 34.1% of timed listings). Evening hours (6–9 PM) are typically the densest band for in-person access.
- How many recovery meetings start late at night?
- Only 1.5% of tracked meetings with a start time begin between 10 PM and 5 AM (522 listings). That late-night gap matters because many people seek help outside business hours.
- Are there more weekday or weekend recovery meetings?
- About 74.1% of timed meetings fall on weekdays (Mon–Fri) and 25.9% on weekends, based on 33,935 listings with a local start time.
- Can I cite this recovery access data?
- Yes. Free under Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0). Copy the citation or HTML embed on this page and link back to GetHelp.