With just ten days to go until GTA 6 launches, Rockstar Games has everything ready for players to download it in advance and start enjoying their new adventure in Vice City and the state of Leonida on November 19.
Preloading begins tomorrow, Tuesday, November 10, at midnight local time in each country on PS5, while on Xbox Series X/S it will go live at 1:00 a.m. in mainland Spain, when players can start downloading the 212 GB game.
With preloading just around the corner, you may be wondering how long it will take to download. Here at Vandal, we checked Ookla's Speedtest, the world's most popular internet speed testing tool, to access its ranking of median internet speeds by country, using data updated in September.
Using this data, we've put together a table showing how long downloading GTA 6 would take at the median speed in each country:
| Country | Time | Median speed |
|---|---|---|
| Global benchmark | 3 h 30 min | 134.75 Mbps |
| Singapore | 59 min | 476.02 Mbps |
| Chile | 1 h 19 min | 359.40 Mbps |
| France | 1 h 23 min | 342.55 Mbps |
| United States | 1 h 30 min | 314.35 Mbps |
| Spain | 1 h 46 min | 266.98 Mbps |
| Canada | 1 h 49 min | 259.52 Mbps |
| Peru | 1 h 51 min | 255.42 Mbps |
| Brazil | 1 h 56 min | 243.69 Mbps |
| Japan | 1 h 56 min | 242.89 Mbps |
| Panama | 2 h 01 min | 233.11 Mbps |
| Netherlands | 2 h 03 min | 229.36 Mbps |
| Colombia | 2 h 03 min | 229.32 Mbps |
| New Zealand | 2 h 11 min | 215.10 Mbps |
| Ireland | 2 h 14 min | 210.22 Mbps |
| Ecuador | 2 h 16 min | 208.10 Mbps |
| Uruguay | 2 h 21 min | 200.72 Mbps |
| United Kingdom | 2 h 27 min | 192.62 Mbps |
| Costa Rica | 2 h 33 min | 184.72 Mbps |
| Australia | 2 h 37 min | 180.58 Mbps |
| Paraguay | 2 h 55 min | 161.97 Mbps |
| Argentina | 3 h 13 min | 146.70 Mbps |
| El Salvador | 3 h 22 min | 139.62 Mbps |
| Venezuela | 3 h 35 min | 131.51 Mbps |
| Mexico | 3 h 56 min | 119.81 Mbps |
| Philippines | 3 h 57 min | 119.03 Mbps |
| Nicaragua | 4 h 29 min | 104.97 Mbps |
| Germany | 4 h 34 min | 103.26 Mbps |
| Guatemala | 4 h 43 min | 99.83 Mbps |
| Honduras | 4 h 44 min | 99.66 Mbps |
| Bolivia | 6 h 06 min | 77.17 Mbps |
| Dominican Republic | 6 h 20 min | 74.40 Mbps |
| India | 7 h 22 min | 63.96 Mbps |
| South Africa | 9 h 16 min | 50.83 Mbps |
| Haiti | 9 h 52 min | 47.76 Mbps |
Source: Ookla, Speedtest Global Index, September 2026. Median fixed broadband download speeds. Estimated times to transfer 212 GB at a constant speed, excluding interruptions, installation and updates. Rounded to the nearest minute.
Keep in mind that these are estimates based on median speeds, assuming a stable connection throughout the download.
Something that wouldn't surprise us during preloading is Sony and Microsoft capping download speeds to prevent their servers from becoming overloaded as we download GTAVI on our consoles, especially given how much time there is before launch. That's why we've also calculated how long the download would take with various speed limits, such as 100 Mbps or 500 Mbps.
Another interesting calculation is the minimum speed needed to download GTA 6 before release. To start playing as soon as it launches in your country, you'll need a connection of at least 2.2 Mbps.
Also, remember that Rockstar has confirmed that you'll need around 212 GB of free storage on PS5 and Xbox Series, so if you haven't already, check how much space is available on your console and make room for the sandbox game before starting the download.
