Lottery Drawing Schedule: Draw Days, Times & Current Jackpots

Ticket sales stop before each drawing, but the exact cutoff isn’t the same everywhere — most states close sales roughly 1–2 hours before the draw, though some stop as little as 15 minutes before and others earlier. The cutoff is set by each state lottery and its retailers, so a game like Powerball can close at different times depending on where you buy. Find your game’s draw time on the calendar above, plan to buy well before it, and see the officially-verified per-state cutoffs on our sales cutoff times page.

Powerball is drawn three times a week — Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday at 10:59 PM Eastern. Mega Millions is drawn twice a week — Tuesday and Friday at 11:00 PM Eastern. Most state daily games (Pick 3, Pick 4, and similar) draw every day, many of them twice: a midday and an evening drawing. The board above shows every tracked game’s next draw in your local time.

The next drawing is at the top of this page, counting down live, and every game on the board shows its own next draw date and time converted to your local time zone. Somewhere in the US, at least one lottery draws every single day.