Like most online games, Grand Theft Auto Online has daily and weekly reset timers that determine when new challenges are released and how often certain actions are performed. If you want to be an effective criminal, you need to know when these times are coming.
When is the GTA Online weekly reset?
Grand Theft Auto Online’s weekly reset takes place every Thursday at 2:00 AM PT/5:00 AM ET. Timing may vary slightly depending on Rockstar’s update schedule and server issues, but typically the game’s weekly tasks and ventures will reset early in the morning every Thursday.
Every Thursday, you’ll find a new set of weekly tests and discounts, as well as individual cars. Each week also features a new Diamond Casino Podium Vehicle and a new prize drive at the LS Car Meet, as well as a selection of new test drives. Cars sold at dealerships such as Luxury Autos and Deluxe Motorsports will also rotate every Thursday, and next-gen PS5 and Xbox Series X|S players can take part in the HSW time trial and experience an exclusive Premium test drive.
GTA Online Daily Reset Schedule
When it comes to daily drops, in GTA Online everything is divided into two camps. The first daily reset is at 10:00 PM PT/1:00 AM ET. The following objectives have been reset at this time:
- Daily goals
- Hidden caches
- Treasure chests
- Shipwreck
- Buried caches
- Jumping with a parachute
- Caches of G
- UFO
- Jack’s lanterns
For most of them, such as hidden caches and treasure chests, you must exit GTA Online for them to respawn. Others, such as daily goals, will automatically reset regardless of your online status.
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The second reset is one hour later at 11:00 PM PT/2:00 AM ET. The rest of the game’s daily challenges reset at this time, including the following items:
- Exotic export
- Increasing the acid lab
- Pistol from
- Hiding houses
- Street traders
For these tasks, you must exit GTA Online to update the exotic export. Everything else will reset automatically, even if you’re currently in a GTA Online session.
GTA Online Prize Ride Challenge Reset
For some strange reason, the Prize Ride seems to reset at a different time than GTA Online’s other weekly events. You have until 4:00am PT/7:00am ET on Thursday to complete the LS Car Meet Challenges and claim a free prize ride for the week, just a few hours after the standard weekly reset.
Other GTA Online events, such as Lucky Wheel at Diamond Casino, are not tied to server clocks, so the reset time depends on when you interact with them. The prize wheel can only be spun once every 24 hours, for example, and this timer starts counting down as soon as you claim your prize. The same goes for events like the Salvage Yard, where vehicles are dismantled for parts in real time.