AION 2 Rift Timer

How to use the timer

1. Pick your region and a schedule model (A is the default). The page guesses from your device time zone and remembers your choice on this device.
2. Read the countdown. Each opening is shown in your local time and on the UTC+9 clock.
3. Press Remind me and allow notifications to get an alert before each opening while this tab is open.
4. Press Add next 7 days to calendar to download an .ics file with the next week of openings and an alert on each. It is built in your browser and saved in UTC.
5. Compare with the in-game countdown. If it differs, trust the game and tell us.

How the Spacetime Rift works

The Spacetime Rift is a recurring cross-faction event. Except where marked NC, this comes from community trackers and datamines.

• It opens every 3 hours, 8 times a day.
• The event runs about 60 minutes.
• The entry portal stays open about 10 minutes at the start. Some trackers say 5, so get there early.
• Inside: cross-faction PvP, Sealed Dungeons, special quests and Abyss Points.
• Trackers list level 45 and up.
• NC: it is a cross-faction mode. The other faction comes from the server yours is paired with, and NC changes pairings periodically.

Sources: Launch Server Matchmaking, Shugo.GG timers, MetaBot Spacetime Rift, questlog.gg Spacetime Rift, Aion 2 Maps: The Abyss and rifts.

Rift schedule by region

The tables list the local opening times for one city per region under each model, before and after daylight saving ends. Your own city may differ, so use the countdown above for exact times.

Between Oct 25 and Oct 31 only the EU has gone back, so Europe follows the second table while the US follows the first. Brazil has no daylight saving. Times are the hour of day the portal opens, in 24 hour format.

Korea and Taiwan are not Global servers. Four trackers list the same hours for Korea (Seoul time) and three for Taiwan (Taipei time). These are not Global servers. They list 02:00, 05:00, 08:00, 11:00, 14:00, 17:00, 20:00, 23:00 local time.

Why Global hours differ between trackers

NC has not published Global rift hours, and none of its Global notices mention them. Every tracker is a community reading. All agree on the cycle (every 3 hours), the 60 minute event and level 45. They disagree on the clock:

• Model A, one UTC+9 clock (four trackers, default). AION2 Hub, MetaBot and allthings.how list 00:00, 03:00 and so on on a UTC+9 clock for every Global region, and questlog.gg counts down to the same moments. That is every 3 hours from 00:00 UTC.
• Model C, each region on its own clock (one tracker). Shugo.GG switched to this on 9 October: 02:00, 05:00 and so on in New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, Sao Paulo and Seoul, and it says the local hour stays the same when clocks go back. It used to show a shared clock, so older copies of its data say otherwise.
• Model B, the Korea schedule (one tracker). Talentbuilds says NA, EU, SA and JP follow Korea's 02:00, 05:00 and so on. The Aion 2 Maps datamine note also starts at 02:00 server time.

Until the EU clock change on Oct 25 and the US change on Nov 1, Models A and C give identical openings in Europe, NA East and NA West, so players saw confirmed times that fit both. They never match in SA / LA or Asia. The clock change is the test: on that day the in-game countdown will settle which model holds, and we will update the default. See our editorial policy. Last checked 2026-10-14.

Daylight saving changes

What changes depends on the model:

• Models A and B: fixed in UTC. Korea Standard Time has no daylight saving, so these openings never move in UTC. Your wall clock moves, so each opening shows one hour earlier after your clocks go back.
• Model C: the local hour stays put and the UTC moment moves one hour later when a region's clocks go back.

• Oct 25, 2026: EU clocks go back one hour.
• Nov 1, 2026: US clocks go back one hour.

The countdown and the calendar file are computed in UTC for the model you pick, so they follow the change on their own. If you wrote times down by hand, update them. A calendar file imported before the change keeps the old model's moments, so download it again after you see the in-game result.

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