Fisch Update Time: Companion Hats Nov 14, Then Fischgiving

The Fisch update time for Companion Hats is 17:00 UTC on Saturday, Nov 14, which is noon Eastern. Fischgiving 3 follows on Tuesday, Nov 24 and Fischmas on Saturday, Dec 12, both at the same hour, by the developer's Roblox listings. The hour moved. Every Fisch listing from March 14 to Oct 31 read 16:00 UTC, and the clocks going back on Nov 1 pushed it to 17:00.

Checked at 06:20 UTC on Nov 11 from the Fisching group's 50 Roblox event listings, its store data, and ObbyDesk's tracker, which has counted Fisch players and logged its name changes since Oct 11. Fan-wiki details are marked.

What parents need to know:

• Roblox labels Fisch Minimal, "Suitable for everyone".
• The three listings don't mention Robux. Our Nov 11 read of the game's 742 developer products and 11 game passes found nothing new for hats, companions, Pilgrim or Fischgiving. The turkey and Fischmas items already for sale were made in 2024 and 2025, and they're listed in the store section below.
• Roblox's parental controls let you "Set a monthly spending limit".

When Companion Hats, Fischgiving and Fischmas open

What	Your time (UTC)	UTC	US Eastern	US Pacific	UK
Companion Hats listing starts	Sat, Nov 14 5:00 PM	Sat, Nov 14 17:00	Sat, Nov 14 12:00 PM	Sat, Nov 14 9:00 AM	Sat, Nov 14 5:00 PM
Companion Hats listing ends	Mon, Nov 16 5:00 PM	Mon, Nov 16 17:00	Mon, Nov 16 12:00 PM	Mon, Nov 16 9:00 AM	Mon, Nov 16 5:00 PM
Fischgiving 3 listing starts	Tue, Nov 24 5:00 PM	Tue, Nov 24 17:00	Tue, Nov 24 12:00 PM	Tue, Nov 24 9:00 AM	Tue, Nov 24 5:00 PM
Fischgiving 3 listing ends	Tue, Dec 1 5:00 PM	Tue, Dec 1 17:00	Tue, Dec 1 12:00 PM	Tue, Dec 1 9:00 AM	Tue, Dec 1 5:00 PM
Fischmas listing starts	Sat, Dec 12 5:00 PM	Sat, Dec 12 17:00	Sat, Dec 12 12:00 PM	Sat, Dec 12 9:00 AM	Sat, Dec 12 5:00 PM

Companion Hats opens at 17:00 UTC on Nov 14. That's noon Eastern, 9 AM Pacific and 5 PM in the UK. In Manila it's 1 AM on Sunday. The listing is titled "Style your Pets!" and its whole text is one line: "Dress up your Companions in new hats!" It runs 48 hours, to Monday, Nov 16.

Fischgiving 3 is listed for seven days, Nov 24 to Dec 1. Fischmas runs 28 days, Dec 12 to Jan 9, 2027. All three listings were created on Oct 18 and edited since: Companion Hats on Oct 31, Fischgiving on Nov 5 and Fischmas on Nov 9. The hub at /games/fisch shows the same three dates, and our events calendar lists them with the other Roblox games.

Why the listing hour moved from 16:00 to 17:00 UTC

Since Aug 16, 2025 the Fisch events API holds 36 start times, 33 of them already past. All 36 fall at noon in New York. Of the 33 past ones, 24 read 16:00 UTC and 9 read 17:00 UTC, so the UTC hour follows daylight saving time. Earlier listings were not on this schedule: Personal Aquariums opened at 12:00 UTC on Aug 2, 2025, which was 8 AM Eastern.

NIST says US daylight saving time in 2026 ran "from March 8 at 2 a.m. (local time) to November 1 at 2 a.m." The listings show it. The Mar 7 start read 17:00 UTC and the Mar 14 start 16:00. The Oct 31 start read 16:00, and Nov 14 reads 17:00. Noon in New York stayed put, so the UTC reading moved an hour.

One Saturday has passed since the clocks changed, Nov 7, and it had no listing. Roblox stamped the game as updated at 16:22 UTC that day, 38 minutes before the 17:00 UTC that noon Eastern now means. On Monday, Nov 9, the game was stamped updated at 16:28 UTC, then again at 17:04, about four minutes after FischFright 3's listing ended at 17:00. One Saturday proves nothing, though. Nov 14 is the first listed start since the change.

Saturday is the habit. Of the 36 start times, 33 fall on a Saturday. The other three are Wednesday, Nov 26, 2025, Wednesday, Dec 31, 2025 and Tuesday, Nov 24, 2026, so Fischgiving 3 is the first Tuesday start.

How early the Fisch crowd arrives

Chart: ObbyDesk. Source: Roblox player counts read by our tracker once an hour, last read 06:15 UTC Nov 11

Our tracker has four Saturdays on record. On each, the daily peak came in the 16:00 UTC reading: 454,636 on Oct 17, 383,275 on Oct 24, 418,987 on Oct 31 and 371,905 on Nov 7. The Friday before each peaked at 83,943, 86,779, 74,311 and 76,568. So the update-hour crowd ran 4.4 to 5.6 times the Friday. From Tuesday to Friday, Oct 13 to Nov 10, daily peaks stayed between 63,223 and 86,779.

The crowd arrives early. The 14:00 UTC readings were all under 150,000. The next hour read 394,560, 361,405, 265,472 and 223,684. On Oct 17 that came 54 minutes before the FischFright 3 listing opened at 16:00 UTC. Fisch servers hold 20 players, by Roblox's game data, so the 454,636 of Oct 17 needed at least 22,732 servers.

We can't say from this data why players show up before the update stamp, and four weeks is a short record. If Nov 14 follows the same pattern, the crowd will build from about an hour before the listed time, which would be 16:00 UTC, 11 AM Eastern. That's our read, and the developer hasn't said anything about it. For the other half of the readings, the post-update hour, see our Fisch game page.

The name tag that flips to [SOON] and [NOW]

Fisch's name on Roblox carries a tag around updates. On all four Saturdays our tracker saw it change to include [SOON] hours before the update and [NOW] right after. Times below are UTC and the tracker's first sighting of each name; Roblox's own "updated" stamp is separate.

[SOON] showed up between 1.5 and 4.5 hours before [NOW], and [NOW] followed the stamp by 3 to about 24 minutes. The tracker checks every 15 to 45 minutes, so each time is a little late. The tag isn't documented anywhere we found, and the developer hasn't said what it means. It's a pattern in four weeks of our own records, which is why we didn't build the advice on it. The name was plain "Fisch 🦈" at our Nov 11 read.

What each listing says in the developer's words

Companion Hats follows the Companions listing of Apr 25 to Apr 27, which said "Seek out and befriend lively allies across the sea, each with their own quirks and hidden perks!" The hats listing adds one line. It doesn't say how players get a hat, or what one costs.

Image: Fisch on Roblox (Fisching group event image, Fischgiving listing)

The Fischgiving listing says more: "The feast is almost ready, but Pilgrim needs some company! Dive into Fischgiving 3 starting November 24th to help scattered families celebrate, unlock global goals, and make sure everyone has a place at the dinner table!" A second paragraph adds "Look out for The Great Turkey..." The "global goals" wording suggests a shared target, but the listing doesn't explain how it works.

The Fischmas listing is the longest. It says the update "returns with a new area located in the North Pole, now featuring entirely new content", reached by the "Northstar Express", with "limited Fischmas fish", "limited-time rods" and "a ton of new Christmas rewards". It ends with "It seems that this year, Santa is up to no good..."

Image: Fisch on Roblox (Fisching group event image, Fischmas listing)

How long last year's holiday events ran

Fischgiving 3 is listed three days shorter than last year's, and Fischmas a week longer. The fan wiki says Fischmas 1 "had the most content of any limited-time Event in Fisch". Listed end times are the developer's plan, and the event itself can differ.

What the store showed before last year's holiday events

Fisch's store had 742 developer products and 11 game passes, nine of them for sale, at our Nov 11 read. None was new for hats, companions, Pilgrim or Fischgiving. The turkey and Fischmas items on sale, Turkey Bundle (799 Robux), Fischmas Jukebox (49) and the 2024 [Limited Boat] Fischmas Speedboat (299), were all created in 2024 or 2025. The newest product, a 1,799 Robux item, was created at 03:55 UTC on Nov 7.

Last year's holiday items appeared late. The Turkey Bundle, 799 Robux, was created at 11:43 UTC on Nov 22, 2025, about four days before Fischgiving 2 opened. The Full Advent Calendar, 699 Robux, followed on Dec 1, 12 days before Fischmas opened, and the 49 Robux Fischmas Jukebox on the morning of its Dec 13 start. If that holds, hat and turkey items could land in the days before each event, not now. Parents who want a spending limit in place can set it before Saturday.

What we'd do on Saturday

Join by 16:00 UTC on Nov 14, an hour before the listed start, and wait on Robux until the store shows hats. The early join comes from four Saturdays of our own counts, and it costs nothing. The Robux advice comes from last year's pattern of late bundles.

Still unknown: what the hats look like, how players get them, whether the [SOON] tag appears again, and whether the update lands at 17:00 UTC or earlier, as on Nov 7.

Our view, from the sources in this article.

How we checked this

We read the Fisching group's 50 event listings, the game's 742 developer products, 11 game passes, age label and game data through Roblox's own APIs between 06:20 and 06:45 UTC on Nov 11. Player counts and name changes come from ObbyDesk's tracker, which has logged Fisch hourly since Oct 11, so every Saturday figure covers four weeks only. The US clock dates come from NIST. Fan-wiki dates are marked and used as the second source only where the listing is silent. We didn't find a community thread we could quote under our rules, so there are no player quotes here. We don't play the game for articles, so nothing here describes the events from inside.

Related Reading

• FischFright 3: The Pumpking Badge, 11 Rituals and Nov 9 End: the Halloween event that just ended, with its badges and rituals.
• Fisch Beginner Guide: How to Fish and FischFright 3 Dates: the basics for a new player before the holiday updates.
• Fisch Badges: The 12 Hardest, Ranked by Roblox's Own Data: the badge list if you chase them in events.
• Most Played Roblox Games Right Now: Top 25 by Live Players: where Fisch sits on the live chart.

References

• Fisch 🦈 on Roblox, game page and data, read Nov 11.
• Companion Hats event listing, the developer's Roblox event, read Nov 11.
• Fischgiving event listing and Fischmas event listing, read Nov 11.
• Fisching, the developer's Roblox group.
• Fischgiving 2 on the Official Fisch Wiki and Fischmas 1, fan wiki, read Nov 11.
• NIST: Daylight Saving Time, 2026 dates.
• Roblox Help: Parental Controls Overview, spending limit.