Solana epochs last about a day
Marinade wrote on 29 October that a Solana epoch lasts about a day. Epoch 1070 closed after 25 hours and 34 minutes. A mainnet query puts the length at 25 hours, 34 minutes, and 5 seconds.
On 29 October 2026, Marinade wrote on X that a Solana epoch lasts about a day. Epoch 1070 closed after 25 hours and 34 minutes. Before slots aimed at 200 milliseconds, an epoch took about two days, Marinade writes.
Rewards are paid at each epoch boundary, so they arrive about once a day, Marinade writes. Someone who ends a stake waits for the next boundary. That wait is usually about a day at most, Marinade writes.
How we measured it: getBlockTime on the public mainnet endpoint gives 27 October 2026, 11:29:55 p.m. Berlin, for slot 462,240,000. That is the first slot of epoch 1070.
Slot 462,672,000 is the first slot of epoch 1071, at 29 October 2026, 1:04:00 a.m. Berlin. The gap is 92,045 seconds. That is 25 hours, 34 minutes, and 5 seconds.
Divided by 432,000 slots, the average is 213.1 milliseconds per slot. getEpochSchedule reports 432,000 slots per epoch. The query ran on 29 October 2026, at 2:58 p.m. Berlin.
Epoch 1053 lasted 26.2 hours in a query on 11 October. That was the first full epoch at the 200-millisecond target. Length moves with slot time because the slot count is fixed.
What to watch
- How far the next finished epoch sits from 25 hours and 34 minutes
Sources
- Marinade — Post on X, 29 October 2026, 10:55 a.m. Berlin
- Solana mainnet —
getBlockTimeandgetEpochScheduleviahttps://api.mainnet-beta.solana.com, slot 462,240,000 and slot 462,672,000, queried 29 October 2026, 2:58 p.m. Berlin - SOLANA·HUB — Epoch 1053, query of 11 October