Pinned Unlock times by country: when Leonida opens where you live
GTA 6 unlocks at midnight local time on Thursday, November 19 - which means the Americas do not start together, we start in a wave.
New York, Toronto, Bogotá and Lima all unlock at midnight Eastern (Colombia and Peru run on UTC-5, same as Eastern Standard). Chicago and Mexico City follow an hour later, Denver two hours after that, Los Angeles and Vancouver three. São Paulo, Buenos Aires and Santiago actually start BEFORE the US East Coast: their midnight lands at 10 PM Eastern on November 18.
The full table is on our Unlock Times page. Check in here on launch night with your city and when your copy opens - let's watch the wave cross the hemisphere together.