BEA release calendar, February 2026

Feb 20, 2026 GDP (Advance Estimate)

Name: GDP (Advance Estimate)
Start: 2026-02-20T13:30:00.000Z

The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis scheduled GDP (Advance Estimate) for 8:30 AM EST on Friday, Feb 20, 2026, and that date has passed. The next one lands Apr 30, 2026. It was one of 3 BEA releases that February.

Awaiting receipt

The scheduled date has passed. JMM has not captured a release receipt for it, so this entry evidences the schedule and not the publication.

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Every BEA GDP (Advance Estimate) release date 4 dates on the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis calendar, with the next one always at the top

Next GDP (Advance Estimate): Apr 30, 2026 BEA news release calendar subscription

Scheduled release time Feb 20, 2026 8:30 AM EST Friday The scheduled time has passed Add every GDP (Advance Estimate) date to your calendar

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Sydney 12:30 AM Saturday, next day

Release window

Where GDP (Advance Estimate) lands in the trading day

8:30 AM

4:00 AM 9:30 AM open 4:00 PM close 8:00 PM

1 hour before the 9:30 AM Eastern U.S. equity open, so the figure is public before the first trade of the session rather than during it.

What it measures

GDP (Advance Estimate), in one paragraph

The advance estimate is the first official measure of how much the American economy produced in a quarter, published about a month after that quarter ends. It is the number reported as the growth rate, and it is built from source data that is still incomplete.

What JMM reads first

Treat the advance estimate as a draft with a headline attached. The Bureau of Economic Analysis publishes it knowing that late source data will move it, and revisions of several tenths of a percentage point between the advance and the third estimate are ordinary rather than exceptional. Read the composition first: growth carried by inventory building and growth carried by consumer spending are the same number and a different economy.

The month around this date

The BEA release calendar for February 2026

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The BEA calendar carries 3 releases across 2 days of February 2026. The heaviest day is the 20th, which is this one, carrying 2 of them. Every marked day is listed below with its exact release time.

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U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services 8:30 AM ET
20

GDP (Advance Estimate) 8:30 AM ET, this page
Personal Income and Outlays 8:30 AM ET

The run of dates

Date 1 of the 4 GDP (Advance Estimate) entries JMM holds

Feb 20, 2026 Oct 29, 2026

The source calendar puts these 4 dates a median of 91 days apart.

Previous GDP (Advance Estimate) Not in this calendar copy This is the earliest date the source file carried at the last collection.

Next GDP (Advance Estimate) Apr 30, 2026 69 days after this one

Event record

Every clock JMM stores for this record

Status: Awaiting receiptThe scheduled date has passed. JMM has not captured a release receipt for it, so this entry evidences the schedule and not the publication.
Period covered: December 2025
Schedule basis: Stated by the sourceBoth the dates and the release instants are stated by the BEA calendar subscription file itself, which carries an Eastern timezone and one entry per release. Most entries are 8:30 a.m. Eastern and the file states a later time for a few, which is why each page takes its clock from its own entry rather than from a rule. Nothing here is derived.
Effective period: Not specified by source
Scheduled time: Feb 20, 2026, 8:30 AM EST
JMM retrieval: Aug 14, 2026, 8:17 AM EDT
Forecast connection: None published A published JMM question that settles on this record would freeze its probability before the time above.

Primary evidence

BEA news release calendar subscription

U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

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Schedule source. The source timezone is retained; Published requires a separate release receipt.

Retained artifact SHA-256dbb86bc80b5b99a691a59ffb0651e588c9f2fe5cc920d556208f9d6db890b6ca

Next research step

What to do with this release

Method How JMM keeps release clocks apart How JMM keeps a first estimate and its later revisions as separate records rather than overwriting one with the other.

Same release minute

One other release lands at the same instant

Personal Income and Outlays Scheduled to the same minute on the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis calendar

The release clock

BEA publishes at 2 times of day, and this is one of them

8:30 AM ET 38
10:00 AM ET 1

Every one of the 39 dated BEA entries JMM holds lands on one of these 2 clock times. This release uses the busier of the two: 38 entries across 6 releases, 97% of the calendar. It is a pre-open slot: the figures are public before the U.S. equity session starts. Read in UTC the same slot would look like 2 different habits, because the published file carries a real timezone: the release holds 8:30 AM Eastern through daylight saving and it is the UTC instant that moves. Grouping on the publisher's own clock is what keeps that one habit one row.

Next on this calendar

What the BEA calendar carries after this

U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services 8:30 AM ET, Mar 12, 2026 GDP (Second Estimate) 8:30 AM ET, Mar 13, 2026 Personal Income and Outlays 8:30 AM ET, Mar 13, 2026 U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services 8:30 AM ET, Apr 2, 2026 GDP (Third Estimate) 8:30 AM ET, Apr 9, 2026

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