There is no universal best time to push. Every country's newsrooms have their own rush hour: 07:00 in Zurich and Helsinki, noon in New York, 19:00 in Stockholm. So the useful question is local. When do the news apps in your market push, and which waking hours do they leave empty?
Each guide below answers that from twelve months of real notifications: the busiest hour per weekday, the weekend shift, and the three quiet windows where an alert faces the least competition on the lock screen.
Sweden
Rush hour 19:00. Quiet windows 16:00, 18:00, 22:00. 71,780 alerts from 19 apps.
Norway
Rush hour 10:00. Quiet windows 08:00, 21:00, 22:00. 31,131 alerts from 12 apps.
Denmark
Rush hour 07:00. Quiet windows 14:00, 15:00, 22:00. 18,397 alerts from 7 apps.
Finland
Rush hour 07:00. Quiet windows 20:00, 21:00, 22:00. 36,344 alerts from 19 apps.
Germany
Rush hour 16:00. Quiet windows 20:00, 21:00, 22:00. 29,893 alerts from 20 apps.
Switzerland
Rush hour 07:00. Quiet windows 09:00, 21:00, 22:00. 51,349 alerts from 27 apps.
France
Rush hour 08:00. Quiet windows 14:00, 15:00, 22:00. 45,861 alerts from 20 apps.
Belgium
Rush hour 12:00. Quiet windows 18:00, 19:00, 22:00. 18,865 alerts from 12 apps.
Italy
Rush hour 07:00. Quiet windows 19:00, 21:00, 22:00. 30,891 alerts from 16 apps.
Spain
Rush hour 09:00. Quiet windows 07:00, 16:00, 22:00. 20,023 alerts from 12 apps.
United Kingdom
Rush hour 11:00. Quiet windows 08:00, 09:00, 22:00. 13,796 alerts from 12 apps.
United States
Rush hour 12:00. Quiet windows 07:00, 21:00, 22:00. 64,919 alerts from 53 apps.
Israel
Rush hour 16:00. Quiet windows 07:00, 15:00, 22:00. 7,692 alerts from 4 apps.
India
Rush hour 15:00. Quiet windows 07:00, 19:00, 22:00. 11,929 alerts from 17 apps.
Brazil
Rush hour 11:00. Quiet windows 20:00, 21:00, 22:00. 13,463 alerts from 8 apps.
New Zealand
Rush hour 15:00. Quiet windows 20:00, 21:00, 22:00. 7,011 alerts from 1 apps.
Quiet windows are the three waking hours (07:00 to 22:00 local) with the lowest share of pushes over the year. Countries with fewer than about 5,000 recorded alerts are not listed.