BEA release calendar, April 2026

Apr 30, 2026 GDP (Advance Estimate)

Name: GDP (Advance Estimate)
Start: 2026-04-30T12:30:00.000Z

The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis scheduled GDP (Advance Estimate) for 8:30 AM EDT on Thursday, Apr 30, 2026, and that date has passed. The next one lands Jul 30, 2026. It was one of 5 BEA releases that April.

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

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Scheduled release time Apr 30, 2026 8:30 AM EDT Thursday The scheduled time has passed Add every GDP (Advance Estimate) date to your calendar

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London 1:30 PM Thursday
Frankfurt 2:30 PM Thursday
Mumbai 6:00 PM Thursday
Tokyo 9:30 PM Thursday
Sydney 10:30 PM Thursday

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 April 2026

SMTWTFS

1 2 34

5678 9 2 1011

12131415161718

19202122232425

26272829 30 2

The BEA calendar carries 5 releases across 3 days of April 2026. The heaviest day is the 9th, carrying 2 of them. Every marked day is listed below with its exact release time.

2
U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services 8:30 AM ET
9
GDP (Third Estimate) 8:30 AM ET Personal Income and Outlays 8:30 AM ET
30

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

The run of dates

Date 2 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. This one falls 69 days after the previous entry.

Previous GDP (Advance Estimate) Feb 20, 2026 69 days before this one Next GDP (Advance Estimate) Jul 30, 2026 91 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: March 2026
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: Apr 30, 2026, 8:30 AM EDT
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

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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

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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

2 other releases land at the same instant

Employment Cost Index Scheduled to the same minute on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics calendar 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.

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What the BEA calendar carries after this

U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services 8:30 AM ET, May 5, 2026 GDP (Second Estimate) 8:30 AM ET, May 28, 2026 Personal Income and Outlays 8:30 AM ET, May 28, 2026 U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services 8:30 AM ET, Jun 9, 2026 U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services (Annual Update) 8:30 AM ET, Jun 9, 2026

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