When Do Marriott Moments Drop? The Auction Calendar

Marriott Bonvoy Moments does not publish a drop calendar, and there is no official schedule telling you when new auctions appear or when they end. So we built one from our own scrape data. The firmest pattern is at the close: most auctions end around midday US Eastern on a weekday, Thursday most of all, and once a lot is live you usually have about three weeks to bid. New lots show up most often on a Monday in our records, with Friday and Thursday next, though two bulk-ingest days on our side tilt that ranking (more on that below).

A caveat up front, stated once so we do not have to keep repeating it: our timing data is only as precise as our scraper, which sweeps Marriott hourly. When we say a lot "landed Monday," we mean Monday is the day we first saw it, not necessarily the exact minute Marriott flipped it live. Close times come straight from each auction's own `end_date`, so those are Marriott's numbers, not ours, and we report them below in UTC converted to US Eastern. The first-seen days are counted in US Eastern too.

The patterns here are derived from every Marriott lot we have logged since we began tracking the program in late March 2026, a few thousand listings and counting. Right now there are 606 Marriott listings live on the board. Treat all of this as a pattern, not a promise.

When new Moments tend to land

Across every Marriott listing we have first seen, the day-of-week distribution is lopsided. Monday is the busiest day in our records: about 30% of all the Marriott lots we have ever recorded were first seen on a Monday. Friday and Thursday are the next tier, at roughly 22% and 20%. Put those three days together and they cover about 72% of everything we have caught.

A caveat on those figures: two days of bulk ingest on our side skew them. Our first day of tracking, a Friday in March 2026, swept up every lot already live, and one unusually large ingest on a Monday in April did much the same. Set those two days aside and Thursday leads at about 25%, with Monday at about 21% and Friday at about 19%. So treat Thursday and Monday as the two good days to look, not Monday alone.

The weekend is quiet. Saturday and Sunday combined make up a small slice of new appearances, which fits the idea that a corporate team loads inventory on business days.

The practical read: if you are going to check Moments manually, sweep on Monday and again Thursday into Friday, and if you can only guard one moment, make it the midday-Eastern close on a Thursday. If you would rather not babysit the page, that is exactly what alerts are for.

When auctions tend to close

Close timing is where the pattern gets genuinely useful, because this is Marriott's own data rather than our observation window. Looking only at auctions with a real end time, the closes cluster hard on weekdays. Thursday is the most common close day at about 31% of all auction endings, followed by Monday at about 25%. Weekday closes (Monday through Friday) account for roughly 91% of all endings; weekends are only about 9%.

The hour-of-day pattern is even tighter, and here the timezone matters, so read carefully. Our data stores end times in UTC. During the spring-to-summer window this data covers, US Eastern is on daylight time, so UTC minus four hours gives you Eastern. Here is where the closes actually pile up:

Widen the midday window slightly to 16:00 to 17:00 UTC (noon to 1 pm Eastern) and it swallows about 40% of all closes. The 06:00 UTC batch (2 am Eastern) likely reflects lots aimed at other regions. So if you had to name one moment when Marriott auctions are most likely to be ending, it is around midday US Eastern on a weekday, Thursday most of all. If you are setting a reminder to make a final decision, that is the window to guard.

One honest note on the timezone: because the underlying number is UTC, a close that reads as noon Eastern in summer reads as 11 am Eastern in winter, once the US falls back off daylight time. The UTC hour is the fixed thing; the local clock time shifts with the seasons.

How long you typically have

You are not racing a flash sale. Across the auctions we track, the typical run from when we first saw a lot to its close is about 22 days at the median, with the middle half of auctions falling between roughly 16 and 28 days. That lines up cleanly with Marriott's own published guidance: the official Moments FAQ states auctions typically run 15 to 30 days (verified September 2026), which we also unpack in our guide to what Marriott Bonvoy Moments is. Our slightly-lower median is expected, because we measure from first sighting, not from the true open, so if anything we understate the full run.

The takeaway is that patience beats panic. There is almost always time to research a lot, check your point balance, and decide on a real maximum bid before the close. That is also why last-second sniping is the wrong instinct on Moments, as we explain in the Marriott Moments sniping strategy.

What those lots tend to cost

Timing tells you when to show up; the other half of a smart bid is knowing what these lots actually clear at. Because we verify winning bids after each auction closes, we can show the real distribution rather than a headline number. Across every Marriott Moments auction we have confirmed a final price on, the median verified close is 95,000 points, and the middle half land between 40,000 to 282,500 points. The spread is enormous, because a courtside sports package and a wine-country dinner are not remotely the same lot, so read the shape, not just the midpoint.

In our tracking, sports lots sit far to the right of that curve while entertainment lots cluster well below the median and culinary lands closer to the middle, so the "typical" Moments price depends almost entirely on which category you are shopping. For the full program-by-program breakdown of how we compute these, see closed auction data by program. Here are the most recent Marriott auctions we have verified a final price on:

You can always dig through the full verified history on the Marriott closed-auction archive.

The seasonal shape of the calendar

Zoom out from days and hours to months, and the Moments calendar has a clear seasonal rhythm, at least across the window we have measured. Sorting lots by the date of the event itself, the inventory builds through spring and peaks in early summer. In our data, June is the single biggest event month with over 1,000 listings, followed by July with just over 600. That early-summer bulge is dominated by one thing.

• FIFA World Cup 2026 is by far the largest cluster we have tracked, with more than 800 Marriott lots tied to World Cup tickets, almost all of them for June and July match dates. This one event reshaped the entire summer calendar.

• Spring festivals form a steadier stream: the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach in April, BottleRock Napa Valley in May, the Danang International Fireworks Festival running weekly from late May into July, plus wine and jazz festivals scattered through the season.

• Motorsport and other sports round out the sports category, which is the largest single category in our Marriott data at roughly 2,330 lots (as of September 2026), ahead of entertainment at about 1,640.

A limit worth stating plainly: our Marriott window starts in late March 2026, so we cannot yet show you a full fall-and-winter pattern with the same confidence. What we can say is that big tentpole events reshape the calendar when they land, and 2026's tentpole was the World Cup. For the full breakdown of how those FIFA lots actually closed, and why near-identical "Pkg N" titles are separate auctions rather than one lot running repeatedly, see World Cup 2026 tickets with points.

The self-updating part: what is closing next

The whole point of building a calendar from live data is that it never goes stale. Here are the Marriott auctions closing soonest right now, sorted by end time. This is the list to scan if you want to know what is actually on the clock today.

And because Marriott seeds a lot of inventory as coming-soon before bidding opens, there is usually a queue of lots waiting in the wings. That queue empties and refills: as of September 3, 2026 we were tracking no Marriott lots flagged coming-soon, though earlier in the summer it ran to a couple hundred. Those are your early warning of the next wave. You can watch the full live board, including what has just opened, on the Marriott listings page.

Frequently asked questions

Is there an official Marriott Moments schedule?

No. Marriott does not publish a calendar of when new auctions drop or when they close, and its official Moments FAQ gives only a duration range (auctions run 15 to 30 days) rather than a fixed release schedule. New experiences are added year-round as older ones sell out. The day-of-week and hour patterns in this post are ours, derived from scrape data, not an official Marriott schedule.

When do Marriott Moments auctions usually end?

In our data, most Marriott auctions close on a weekday, with Thursday the most common day, and the busiest close hour by far is around noon US Eastern time (16:00 UTC during daylight time). About 91% of closes land Monday through Friday, and only about 9% on weekends.

How long do Marriott Moments auctions run?

Marriott's official FAQ says auctions run 15 to 30 days. Our own data shows a median run of about 22 days from first sighting to close, which sits comfortably inside that range. You almost always have more than two weeks to decide on a bid.

Do the Marriott 1-Point Drops follow the same pattern?

No. The 1-Point Drops are a separate first-come, first-served promotion, not auctions, and Marriott teases their dates on its social channels a week or two ahead rather than following the weekday auction rhythm. We cover them in full in how the Marriott 1-Point Drops work.

For the deeper timing question of why bidding early beats bidding at the buzzer, our data-backed piece on what late bidding actually adds in point auctions is the companion read to this calendar, and the midyear state of point auctions sets Marriott's numbers against the rest of the market. To see what is live across the whole program right now, start at the Marriott Bonvoy program page or the live search.