BTC Avg Confirmation Time
Bitcoin
The mean time in minutes for a transaction to receive its first confirmation, measured over the day.
Why it matters
Read beside the median, it exposes the tail: how badly the slowest transactions of the day were delayed.
How it is built
Measured for fee-paying transactions only. Because it is a mean it has no upper bound, so a single day of severe backlog can dominate the series.
What to watch
A mean far above the median is not noise, it is the shape of a congested fee market. When blocks fill, everything that underbid waits, and those long waits pull the average away from the typical experience. The gap between the two lines is a cleaner congestion read than either line alone.
Measured on this chain
BTC Avg Confirmation Time on Bitcoin last read 37.36 on Sep 20, 2026, a change of -55.27% over 30 days, ranging from 6.74 (Sep 12, 2025) to 12,404.53 (Oct 5, 2023).
- Latest reading
- 37.36
- Sep 20, 2026
- Change
- 1d +19.84%
- 30d -55.27%
- 90d +252.25%
- 1y +124.37%
- Range
- Low 6.74·Sep 12, 2025
- High 12,404.53·Oct 5, 2023
- Coverage
- Jun 6, 2018 — Sep 20, 2026
- 800 readings
| Date | Value |
|---|---|
| Aug 1, 2026 | 49.52 |
| Aug 5, 2026 | 47.84 |
| Aug 8, 2026 | 32.93 |
| Aug 12, 2026 | 38.2 |
| Aug 23, 2026 | 36.48 |
| Aug 27, 2026 | 60.55 |
| Aug 31, 2026 | 34.86 |
| Sep 4, 2026 | 31.97 |
| Sep 8, 2026 | 47.6 |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 27.16 |
| Sep 16, 2026 | 31.18 |
| Sep 20, 2026 | 37.36 |
Read from our own stored series, not quoted from a page.