When is the best day to release music in July 2026?

The month's best stretch opens Thu, Jul 23, 10:00 PM EDT and holds until Fri, Jul 24, 8:00 AM EDT, scoring 76 against a base of 50, computed in America/New York (Eastern Time). Scores compare moments; they do not promise results.

How are these scores computed?

Every hour is rated on four factors — the Moon void-of-course, Mercury retrograde, the Moon's phase, and its next applying aspect for this kind of decision — then averaged per local day under a versioned config. These pages stop there, because a page has no location; the app adds a fifth factor, the Moon's house, once it knows where you are, which is what lets it name an hour rather than a day. Fifty is a flat sky; every point above it is computed help, every point below is drag.

What does void-of-course mean?

The Moon has made its last exact aspect in a sign and is coasting until it enters the next. The classical read: finish things, don't start them.

Launch / publish — July 2026

The best days to release music in July 2026.

Computed in America/New York (Eastern Time); every interval prints its UTC offset. A different timezone shifts the day boundaries — the sky doesn’t change, but the local days it lands in can.

You’ve got the release on the calendar. Here is July 2026, scored for releasing: every hour rated on the Moon void-of-course, Mercury retrograde, the Moon’s phase, and its next applying aspect for this decision — then averaged per day. Fifty is a flat sky; every point above it is computed help, every point below is drag.

The month’s best stretch opens Thu, Jul 23, 10:00 PM EDT and holds until Fri, Jul 24, 8:00 AM EDT, scoring 76.

Amber rows below are the days that stretch touches. Scores compare moments; they do not promise results.

Date	Day	Score	The computed sky
Jul 1	Wed	21	Mercury retrogradeopposition Jupiter 4:13 PMwaningvoid Wed 7:50 AM – Wed 3:32 PM
Jul 2	Thu	30	Mercury retrogradewaning
Jul 3	Fri	20	Mercury retrogradewaningvoid Fri 1:27 PM – Sat 2:30 AM
Jul 4	Sat	27	Mercury retrogradewaningvoid Fri 1:27 PM – Sat 2:30 AM
Jul 5	Sun	30	Mercury retrogradewaning
Jul 6	Mon	21	Mercury retrogradetrine Jupiter 1:40 PMwaningvoid Mon 1:21 AM – Mon 11:07 AM
Jul 7	Tue	30	Mercury retrogradewaning
Jul 8	Wed	27	Mercury retrogradesquare Jupiter 7:45 PMwaningvoid Wed 2:41 PM – Wed 4:30 PM
Jul 9	Thu	30	Mercury retrogradewaning
Jul 10	Fri	19	Mercury retrogradesextile Jupiter 10:30 PMwaningvoid Fri 6:13 AM – Fri 6:41 PM
Jul 11	Sat	25	Mercury retrogradewaningvoid Sat 6:11 PM – Sun 6:46 PM
Jul 12	Sun	10	Mercury retrogradewaningvoid Sat 6:11 PM – Sun 6:46 PM
Jul 13	Mon	30	Mercury retrogradewaning
Jul 14	Tue	37	Mercury retrogradeconjunction Jupiter 11:49 PMwaningwaxingvoid Tue 5:43 AM – Tue 6:35 PM
Jul 15	Wed	49	Mercury retrogradewaxingvoid Wed 6:26 PM – Thu 8:07 PM
Jul 16	Thu	32	Mercury retrogradewaxingvoid Wed 6:26 PM – Thu 8:07 PM
Jul 17	Fri	54	Mercury retrogradewaxing
Jul 18	Sat	49	Mercury retrogradewaxingvoid Sat 6:13 PM – Sun 12:56 AM
Jul 19	Sun	56	Mercury retrogradesextile Jupiter 8:39 AMwaxingvoid Sat 6:13 PM – Sun 12:56 AM
Jul 20	Mon	54	Mercury retrogradewaxing
Jul 21	Tue	49	Mercury retrogradesquare Jupiter 6:49 PMwaxingvoid Tue 7:05 AM – Tue 9:34 AM
Jul 22	Wed	48	Mercury retrogradewaxingvoid Wed 5:48 PM – Thu 9:06 PM
Jul 23	Thu	34	Mercury retrogradetrine Jupiter 7:48 AMwaxingvoid Wed 5:48 PM – Thu 9:06 PM
Jul 24	Fri	67	trine Jupiter 7:48 AMwaxing
Jul 25	Sat	48	waxingvoid Sat 10:58 AM – Sun 9:44 AM
Jul 26	Sun	52	waxingvoid Sat 10:58 AM – Sun 9:44 AM
Jul 27	Mon	62	waxing
Jul 28	Tue	41	opposition Jupiter 10:27 AMwaxingvoid Tue 2:11 AM – Tue 9:46 PM
Jul 29	Wed	44	opposition Jupiter 10:27 AMwaningwaxing
Jul 30	Thu	32	waningvoid Thu 5:26 PM – Fri 8:13 AM
Jul 31	Fri	29	waningvoid Thu 5:26 PM – Fri 8:13 AM

How to read this

Void-of-course— after the Moon’s last exact aspect in a sign, before it enters the next. The classical read: finish things; don’t start them. Exact times are in the void calendar for July 2026. Mercury retrograde — the traditional caution for messages, deals, and signatures; station times to the second are in the retrograde dates. Waxing / waning — growing favors starts, thinning favors finishing. The applying aspect— the Moon’s next exact contact with this decision’s planet, easy angles helping, hard angles dragging. The full rulebook — which conventions Orrery follows and which it refuses — is in Method.

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