AION 2 Rift Timer: Next Spacetime Rift Countdown & Schedule (Global)

When does the next Spacetime Rift open?

The timer counts down to the next rift on your server region’s clock, shown in your local time. It guesses your region from your time zone, so pick another one if you play elsewhere. While a portal is taking entries, it switches to the time left to get in.

Turn on the reminder to get a browser notification 5 minutes before each opening; it works while this page stays open in a tab. For the daily and weekly reset, see our AION 2 reset time countdown; the site’s other timers and the Daevanion calculator are under All AION 2 tools.

What is the Global rift schedule?

Every 3 hours from 02:00 server time, eight times a day, on each region’s own clock. On your server’s clock the openings are always 02:00, 05:00, 08:00, 11:00, 14:00, 17:00, 20:00 and 23:00. In UTC they depend on the region, and Europe’s and NA’s move by an hour when their clocks change:

So a player in Paris still sees rifts at 02:00, 05:00 and so on after the clock change, and a player in New York at 02:00, 05:00 and so on Eastern time. Between 25 October and 1 November, Europe’s and NA’s rifts fall an hour apart in UTC.

Why do rift timers disagree?

Because NCSOFT has not published the Global times, and timers chose different clocks. Three models are in use:

• Each region’s server clock, every 3 hours from 02:00: questlog.gg and shugo.gg. This is the model the timer above uses.
• A fixed UTC cycle, every 3 hours from 00:00 UTC: aion2atlas, which checked the live servers on 7 October 2026, aion2hub and aion2-wiki. MetaBot gets the same hours by putting every Global region on Korean time, and the French gaming site Playnews reported player observations of 02:00, 05:00 and so on in Paris summer time.
• The Korean clock, every 3 hours from 02:00 Korean time: aion2rifttimer.com and aion2timer.net, an hour before the UTC cycle.

During summer time the first two models gave the same hours for NA and Europe (02:00 in Berlin, New York and Los Angeles is 00:00, 06:00 and 09:00 UTC), so the October checks fit both. They split when the clocks change. On 25 October NC ran a Europe-only maintenance for the time zone change from CEST to CET, which would not be needed if Europe’s server clock were fixed to UTC or to Korean time. That is why this page now follows each region’s server clock.

Is the rift schedule the same on every server region?

No: each Global region runs on its own server clock, in questlog.gg’s and shugo.gg’s schedules: Europe on Berlin time, NA East on New York time, NA West on Los Angeles time, Latin America on São Paulo time and Asia on Tokyo time. Three cases are worth knowing:

• Asia servers: 02:00 Tokyo time is 17:00 UTC, an hour before the UTC cycle many timers use. Those are the same hours as the Korean-clock timers.
• Latin America servers: 02:00 São Paulo time is 05:00 UTC, also an hour before the UTC cycle.
• Europe and NA: the rifts stay at the same local hour when daylight saving time ends and move an hour later in UTC, Europe from 25 October and NA from 1 November.

We have not yet found an in-game report of a Europe rift after the clock change. If a portal opens at a different time on your server, please tell us with the correction button at the end of this page; one setting changes the whole timer.

How does the Spacetime Rift work?

A portal opens on your side of the map and takes you to the enemy faction’s land for one hour. According to Playnews, Asmodians cross to Verteron and Elyos to Altgard. The key numbers:

• Entry: about 10 minutes after each opening, by most reports; Playnews says only a few minutes. Entries are limited, and a counter at the portal shows the spots left.
• Time inside: a one-hour countdown that is individual to each character. When it runs out, you are sent home. Tickets add 10 or 30 minutes.
• Travel: fast travel does not work in enemy territory, so plan your route before you cross.
• Level: 45 and up.

In Korea, the December 2025 update shortened the interval from four hours to three and raised the cap from 200 to 400 players per opening, according to Korean gaming press. NCSOFT has not published the Global cap.

How do you enter the Spacetime Rift?

1. Reach level 45.
2. Choose your combat mode before you leave. You can only change it on your own faction’s territory, and there is a 70-minute wait between changes. In peaceful mode, enemy players cannot attack you and you cannot attack them.
3. At the opening time, open the map and look for the swirl-shaped icon that marks the portal.
4. Go to the portal and interact with it to cross. Arrive early: the spots fill up.

StingKnight’s short video shows what the portal looks like on the map and how entry works:

StingKnight — How To Find Spacetime Rifts | Enter Into Enemy Faction Map (Explained) — YouTube

StingKnight — How To Find Spacetime Rifts | Enter Into Enemy Faction Map (Explained)

If you plan to fight other players on the far side, set up a PvP-ready build first; our class build guides cover every class, and the macro guide explains which skills to keep off your macro in a fight.

What can you do inside the rift?

Quests, dungeons, farming and, if you want it, PvP. The two guides we checked list the same activities:

• Rift quests. Playnews reports that the Asmodian chain comes from the merchant Uru and includes “Spacetime Rift”, “Unknown Species”, “Unfamiliar Material” and “An Honest Shugo”, each worth 2,000 Abyss Points, experience, about 21,000 to 58,000 Kinah and a piece of jewelry. The Elyos chain comes from Mino and includes “Beautiful Carapace”. Reports differ on how long each chain is.
• Sealed dungeons and garrisons. MeinMMO lists them as a source of Kinah, Abyss Points and enhancement stones. How the rift fits among all the Abyss Point sources is in our AION 2 Abyss Points guide.
• Farming resources and monsters in enemy territory, and green side quests.
• PvP, if you crossed with PvP mode on. Enemy outposts are guarded by NPCs that attack anyone who comes close.

The enemy zones also hold more Hidden Cubes, and pet souls you can’t farm at home. Our Hidden Cubes guide lists the teleport points with the most cube spots in each zone, and our AION 2 pets guide shows that 39 pets drop their souls in Altgard but not Verteron, and 44 in Verteron but not Altgard.

How do you get home from the rift?

Wait out the hour, die, or teleport. When your one-hour timer runs out, the game sends you back. Dying also returns you to your home continent. MeinMMO describes a third way: open the map with M, select the circle symbol at the top right, choose your home area (Altgard for Asmodians, Verteron for Elyos) and use a scroll to teleport to a fast travel point there.

Where does this rift information come from?

• Playnews: Aion 2 Spacetime Rift: How to Enter, Activate and Leave It? by Fabian Lainé (2026-10-10): schedule, entry rules, combat mode, quests and the guard trap.
• MeinMMO: Aion 2: Space-Time Rifts – Everything About Timers by Karsten Scholz (2026-10-08): schedule, activities and getting home.
• Community timers using a fixed UTC cycle: aion2atlas (live check 2026-10-07), aion2hub and aion2-wiki.
• questlog.gg: Boss Schedule, read on 2026-10-17 and 2026-10-25: the rift defined by each region’s server clock, and the five Global regions with their time zones.
• shugo.gg: AION 2 Timers, read on 2026-10-25: the same regional server clocks, with the local hour kept when clocks change.
• AION 2 notice: Temporary Maintenance (EU), Oct 24 PDT / Oct 25 CEST (Steam, 24 October 2026): adjustments on the Europe servers for the change from CEST to CET.
• MetaBot.GG: Spacetime Rift timer, read on 2026-10-25: every 3 hours from 00:00 server time, with every Global region on Korean time.
• Timers using the Korean clock: aion2rifttimer.com and aion2timer.net.
• StingKnight: How To Find Spacetime Rifts (YouTube): the portal on the map, the announcement and the entry window.
• Korean update: Digital Daily (2025-12-03) on the three-hour interval and the 400-player cap in Korea.
• For which classes do best in a fight, see the classes overview.