When Is the Next Powerball Drawing? Times, Jackpot and Odds
Update log (4)
- — Updated for the current drawing. Powerball's own site now shows the next drawing as Wednesday 26 August 2026 with an estimated jackpot of $96 million, or $41.2 million as cash. That is five drawings on from the $20 million reset that followed the Illinois win, none of which produced a jackpot winner. The headline figure on this page previously read $35 million, which was correct only for the drawing on 17 August. The sterling figure for the UK draw was first dropped in this pass, and then replaced in a second one on the same day: the earlier edit had swapped it for a claim that The National Lottery advertises in pounds rather than converting the American jackpot, which its own game procedures contradict — the advertised jackpot is converted at the exchange rates in force when it is advertised. The page now carries the £49M read from the operator's Powerball page, and the small print is quoted from the Powerball Game Procedures rather than paraphrased. The perishes date was also moved from 29 August, which is the drawing after this one, to 27 August, the morning after the 26 August drawing this page is actually about.
- — Updated for the current drawing. Saturday 15 August produced no jackpot winner — the numbers were 5, 8, 27, 29, 63 and Powerball 13, with a 2x Power Play. The jackpot has therefore rolled twice since the Illinois win and stands at $35 million, or $15.2 million as cash, for the drawing on Monday 17 August. The headline figure on this page previously read $20 million, which was the reset level and correct only for the 15 August drawing. The title no longer carries a jackpot figure, because that number changes three times a week.
- — The jackpot has been won. A single ticket sold in Illinois matched all six numbers on Wednesday 12 August for $1.040 billion, or $450.5 million in cash, ending a run of 44 drawings that began on 2 May. It is the eighth-largest jackpot Powerball has paid and the largest of 2026. Four more tickets, in Arizona, California, Florida and North Carolina, matched the five white balls, and one in Massachusetts had Power Play and took $2 million. The next drawing is Saturday 15 August with the jackpot reset to $20 million, which also means the 10X Power Play multiplier is available again for the first time in months. The final jackpot came in $65 million above the figure advertised two days earlier, which is what final ticket sales do.
- — Figures read from powerball.com on the morning of 11 August 2026, the day before the drawing. The advertised jackpot is an estimate that Powerball revises as sales come in, and it has risen between announcement and drawing at every stage of this run.
Powerball’s next drawing is Wednesday 26 August 2026 at 10:59 pm ET, which is 03:59 on Thursday 27 August UK time. Once it is drawn, the next-drawing date and jackpot on this page are superseded — they roll over three times a week.
Everything else on the page is unaffected; the figures below still say when they were read.
- The run is over. A single ticket sold in Illinois matched all six numbers on Wednesday 12 August and won $1.040 billion, or $450.5 million as cash. It was the 44th consecutive drawing without a jackpot winner, and the eighth-largest jackpot in the game’s history.
- The next drawing is Wednesday 26 August at 10:59 pm ET, with the jackpot at $96 million — $41.2 million as cash. It reset to $20 million after the Illinois win and has rolled five times since. That $20 million is the floor Powerball resets to, and it is what the prize was on 2 May, the last time before this that anyone won.
- The reset brings something back with it. The 10X Power Play multiplier is only available when the advertised jackpot is $150 million or less, so it is in play at $96 million, as it has been since the reset. Through the billion-dollar run the ceiling was 5X.
- The advertised number moved right up to the drawing, exactly as advertised numbers do. Powerball put Wednesday’s jackpot at $975 million on Tuesday morning; final ticket sales took it to $1.040 billion. Nobody should treat a pre-draw figure as the prize.
The jackpot was won. A single ticket sold in Illinois matched all six numbers on Wednesday 12 August 2026 and took $1.040 billion — or $450.5 million if the winner takes the cash. It ended a run of 44 consecutive drawings without a jackpot winner, stretching back to 2 May.
The next drawing is Wednesday 26 August at 10:59 pm ET, with the jackpot at $96 million.
When is the next Powerball drawing?
Wednesday 26 August, 10:59 pm ET — and then Saturday, and then Monday.
Powerball draws three nights a week, every week, from a studio in Florida. The drawing is streamed live on Powerball.com.
| Drawing night | US time | UK time |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | 10:59 pm ET | 03:59 Tue |
| Wednesday | 10:59 pm ET | 03:59 Thu |
| Saturday | 10:59 pm ET | 03:59 Sun |
The UK column is not a typo. Powerball went on sale in the UK on 21 July and the drawings happen in the middle of the British night — there is a section on that below .
Sales close before the drawing, and the cut-off is set by each lottery rather than nationally, so the safe rule is to buy well before the evening of the drawing rather than in the last hour.
How big is the Powerball jackpot right now?
$96 million as an annuity, $41.2 million as cash, read from Powerball’s own site on 26 August.
It reset to $20 million after the Illinois win — that is the floor — and has climbed through five drawings since, none of which produced a jackpot winner. Powerball resets to $20 million after a win and climbs from there, three drawings a week, until somebody hits it again.
For scale: the run that just ended started from exactly that $20 million floor on 4 May and took 44 drawings to reach $1.040 billion.
There is one practical consequence of the reset that is easy to miss, and it is in the odds section below : the 10X Power Play multiplier is only offered when the advertised jackpot is $150 million or less. It was unavailable for months. At $96 million it is available again. For the numbers themselves after each draw, and who won what, see the latest Powerball results .
Who won the Powerball jackpot?
One ticket, sold in Illinois, on Wednesday 12 August. The winning numbers were white balls 4, 26, 66, 67 and 69 with red Powerball 9, and the Power Play multiplier was 2.
The winner can take an annuity of $1.040 billion, paid as 30 graduated payments over 29 years, or a lump sum of $450.5 million. Both are before tax.
Four other tickets — in Arizona, California, Florida and North Carolina — matched the five white balls without the Powerball, which is normally a set $1 million. A fifth, in Massachusetts, had added Power Play for $1 and took $2 million instead. Powerball says more than three million tickets won a cash prize of some size.
One caveat on that row of $1 million winners: California is different. Powerball’s own release notes that Match 5 is a set prize everywhere except California, where payouts are pari-mutuel — determined by sales and by how many people won. The Californian ticket-holder’s cheque is not $1 million because a table says so.
Is $1.040 billion a record?
No. It is the eighth-largest Powerball jackpot ever, and the largest of 2026.
| Rank | Jackpot | Date | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $2.04bn | 7 Nov 2022 | CA |
| 2 | $1.817bn | 24 Dec 2025 | AR |
| 3 | $1.787bn | 6 Sep 2025 | MO, TX |
| 7 | $1.08bn | 19 Jul 2023 | CA |
| 8 | $1.040bn | 12 Aug 2026 | IL |
| 9 | $842.4m | 1 Jan 2024 | MI |
Eight of the ten largest have passed a billion dollars. The record is the $2.04 billion won on a single ticket in California in November 2022.
Worth noting how the final figure got there. On Tuesday morning Powerball advertised $975 million for the Wednesday drawing; final ticket sales took it to $1.040 billion — $65 million more, in about 36 hours. The advertised number is an estimate built from expected sales, and it moved upward at every stage of this run, including the last one.
Annuity or cash — what would you actually get?
Neither number is $1.040 billion in hand.
The advertised jackpot is the annuity: 30 graduated payments over 29 years, starting smaller and rising each year. Take the lump sum instead and you get the cash value, 43% of the headline. Both figures are before tax.
The third bar is the one worth sitting with, and it survived a billion-dollar jackpot. There are 292,201,338 possible lines, and at $2 each, buying every one of them costs $584,402,676 — about $134 million more than the cash you would have collected for winning this one. Even at the eighth-largest prize in the game’s history, covering the board loses money before you account for tax, for the logistics of printing 292 million tickets in a few days, or for the possibility that someone else picks the same numbers and halves your prize.
What are the odds of winning Powerball?
1 in 292,201,338 for the jackpot, 1 in 24.87 for any prize at all.
| Match | Prize | Odds |
|---|---|---|
| 5 + Powerball | Jackpot | 1 in 292,201,338 |
| 5 | $1 million | 1 in 11,688,054 |
| 4 + Powerball | $50,000 | 1 in 913,129 |
| 4 | $100 | 1 in 36,525 |
| 3 + Powerball | $100 | 1 in 14,494 |
| 3 | $7 | 1 in 580 |
| 2 + Powerball | $7 | 1 in 701 |
| 1 + Powerball | $4 | 1 in 92 |
| Powerball only | $4 | 1 in 38 |
A ticket is $2. Power Play adds $1 and multiplies every prize below the jackpot; Double Play adds $1 and enters your numbers into a separate drawing worth up to $10 million.
The detail that changed with the reset: the 10X Power Play multiplier is only in play when the advertised jackpot is $150 million or less. Through the billion-dollar run the best available was 5X, and the multiplier drawn on 12 August was 2X. At $96 million, 10X is in the pool.
Those odds do not improve because the jackpot is bigger. The only thing a large jackpot changes is how many other people are playing, which raises the chance that a winning line is a shared one — which is exactly what happened on 2 May, when two tickets split the $20 million minimum.
Can you play Powerball in the UK?
Yes, since 21 July 2026 — at £4 a line, which is double the US price.
Powerball is sold in 45 US states, Washington DC, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands and the United Kingdom, where The National Lottery’s operator Allwyn put it on sale across 43,500 shops. The run that just ended was, in Powerball’s own words, the first jackpot run to include players from the United Kingdom.
For a UK player the practical differences are larger than the price:
| US | UK | |
|---|---|---|
| A line costs | $2 | £4 |
| Buy by | draw night | 11:55pm before |
| Draw lands | Mon, Wed, Sat | Tue, Thu, Sun ~4am |
| Cash option | yes | no, paid over 30 yrs |
You cannot buy a UK ticket on the day of the draw. Because the drawing happens at about 4am UK time, National Lottery terminals sell Monday, Wednesday and Saturday tickets for draws that land in the early hours of Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. For Wednesday’s American drawing, that means buying by 11:55pm on Wednesday 26 August for a result at 03:59 on Thursday 27 August.
The five-hour gap holds until late October, and then briefly does not: the UK puts its clocks back on 25 October and the US does not until 1 November, so for one week the drawing lands at 02:59 rather than 03:59.
The sterling figure is the other thing to read carefully. The National Lottery advertises £49M for the draw that lands in the early hours of Thursday 27 August. Its game procedures call that an “estimation” of what a winner receives across the 30-year payment period, converted at the “exchange rates that apply at the time the Jackpot is advertised”, with the final sterling value set by the rates that apply after Allwyn has validated a claim. A UK winner does not get a cash option, and the number they eventually receive is not the number on the poster.
Players must be 18 or over and physically in the UK or the Isle of Man. If the fun stops, GamCare is on 0808 8020 133, free and open 24 hours.
What this does not tell you
Whether Wednesday rolls, what it will be worth next week, or what any of this is worth to you.
We have not printed a projected jackpot for any future drawing, and nobody can give you one honestly: the advertised figure depends on ticket sales that have not happened yet. The gap between the $975 million advertised on Tuesday and the $1.040 billion drawn on Wednesday is the size of that uncertainty over two days.
It does not tell you what the Illinois winner keeps. Both the annuity and the cash figure are before tax, and what tax applies depends on where the ticket was bought and where the winner lives. Nor does it tell you who they are: a jackpot winner has to come forward and validate the ticket, and Illinois has not announced a claim.
And it is not advice to buy a ticket. The odds in the table above are fixed, published by the game, and unaffected by how large the prize gets. The only number in this piece that changes in your favour is the one on the poster.
How we verified this
Everything about the 12 August result was read on powerball.com in a browser, not fetched. That is not a stylistic choice: when this article was first written, an automated fetch of the 2 May result page reported zero jackpot winners while the fully rendered page showed “JACKPOT WINNERS: FL, TX”. The winning numbers, the prize-tier counts, the jackpot and cash figures and the reset all come from the rendered draw-result page for 12 August and from Powerball’s own press release of 13 August.
The word “winner” covers four different things in this drawing and the article keeps them apart. One ticket won the jackpot, in Illinois. Four tickets matched five white balls for $1 million, in Arizona, California, Florida and North Carolina. A fifth, in Massachusetts, had added Power Play and took $2 million. And more than three million tickets won something. Coverage that says “five winners” or “millions of winners” is describing different tiers with the same word.
One of those $1 million prizes is not a fixed $1 million. Powerball’s own release notes that the Match 5 prize is a set cash prize “except in California, where prize payouts are pari-mutuel and determined by sales and the number of winners”. The Californian ticket’s prize is therefore not knowable from the tier table.
The old jackpot-climb chart has been removed rather than updated. It plotted the advertised jackpot at all 44 drawings of the run and ended at the $975 million estimate for 12 August, which the drawing then exceeded. Its subject — a run in progress — has ended, and the underlying series was not kept in a form that could be extended. The top-ten and annuity charts have been rebuilt from Powerball’s 13 August figures, and this time from a script kept in the repository.
The odds were recomputed from the ball matrix rather than copied. Five numbers from 69 and one from 26 gives 11,238,513 × 26 = 292,201,338 combinations, which is exactly the figure Powerball publishes. The 1 in 24.87 overall figure is the sum of the individual tier probabilities and reproduces to the second decimal place.
This article does not forecast the jackpot. It reports the advertised figures for the next drawing as Powerball and The National Lottery publish them, and says plainly that the advertised figure moves with sales. There is no projection here of what any future drawing will be worth.
The hero image is a generic lottery draw machine, not a Powerball draw. Powerball uses five white balls and one red Powerball; the coloured balls in the photograph belong to some other game.