SMS quiet hours

The federal window for marketing texts

The federal rule for marketing texts is 47 CFR 64.1200(c)(1), which bars telephone solicitations to a residential subscriber before 8 a.m. or after 9 p.m. Section 64.1200(e) applies the same rule to text messages sent to wireless numbers. The hours run on local time at the called party's location, so a list spanning time zones reaches recipients in different windows from one send.

State quiet hours rules

31 states have a time of day rule read from an official source for this page. 10 of them name text messages in the text read; the rest do not name them, which this page does not read as an exemption. 15 end earlier than 9 p.m. on at least one day, and 8 bar solicitations on Sundays.

Florida sets 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. under Fla. Stat. 501.616, where the hours sit rather than in the Florida Telephone Solicitation Act, and allows no more than three commercial solicitations to the same person in 24 hours on the same subject. Oklahoma and Maryland set 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. with a three in 24 hours limit. Texas sets 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday to Saturday and noon to 9 p.m. on Sunday. Pennsylvania sets 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and none on Sunday or a legal holiday, after a July 2026 amendment. Connecticut sets 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Rhode Island sets 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekdays and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday. Mississippi sets 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Central Standard Time and none on Sunday.

Some state hours rules reach only automated or prerecorded calls, and the table marks them: Indiana, Nebraska and Maine are in that group.

Wyoming, New Mexico, Colorado and Idaho are named by secondary sources, but no official source was read for this page, so they are not in the checker. A state with no row has not been shown to have no rule.

The consent and opt-out rules that apply alongside these hours are on SMS compliance.

This page is not legal advice.

Rule summaries checked for accuracy against the sources by Justin Grossbard on 22 October 2026.

Quiet hours settings on SMS platforms

9 of the 12 SMS marketing platforms compared on this site state a quiet hours or send window setting, each on the platform's own pages, read 22 October 2026.

Omnisend's setting is on by default, 8 PM to 8 AM in the recipient's time zone, with messages held. Attentive's default is 8 PM to 12 PM in the recipient's time zone, and it applies to journeys, not scheduled campaigns. Klaviyo's uses the recipient's time zone and holds messages. Postscript holds messages outside 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. subscriber local time and uses 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. in Florida, Connecticut, Maryland, Oklahoma and Washington. SimpleTexting's window uses the account's time zone, not the recipient's. Sendlane sends a campaign scheduled after 8 PM at 8 AM. Trumpia blocks sends from 9 PM to 8 AM recipient local time. EZ Texting says quiet hours are on every plan. SlickText, Textedly and YepText state no quiet hours setting on the pages read.

A platform's default window and a state's window can differ, as the Postscript Florida, Connecticut, Maryland, Oklahoma and Washington settings show against those states' own hours. The platforms are compared on SMS marketing platforms, and consent language is covered on SMS opt-in.

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