Is PayPal down in the US?
Vendor reports no incidentWhat PayPal reports
PayPal reports no incident on its status page.
As of the last successful poll, 2026-11-05 18:07 UTC.
Our regional reading
This is our own reading from outside, shown beside the vendor's statement. It is not counted as a separate outage.
Checks passingin the US, measured from Ashburn, San Jose, and Chicago
All 3 of our probes in the US, in Ashburn, San Jose, and Chicago, read checks passing when they last checked PayPal at Nov 5, 2026, 6:09 PM UTC.
Over the last 24 hours we completed 1353 checks from Ashburn, San Jose, and Chicago and 1352 answered cleanly, 99.92% availability.
Of the 7 other regions we check PayPal from, all 7 read checks passing right now.
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What our Ashburn, San Jose, and Chicago probes measured
Last checked Nov 5, 2026, 6:09 PM UTC.
PayPal from Ashburn, San Jose, and Chicago over the last 30 days
Over the last 30 days, PayPal answered our Ashburn probe in 468 ms on average, and 1 check in 20 took longer than 713 ms.
Over the last 30 days, PayPal answered our Chicago probe in 589 ms on average, and 1 check in 20 took longer than 1,124 ms.
Over the last 30 days, PayPal answered our San Jose probe in 640 ms on average, and 1 check in 20 took longer than 1,403 ms.
Ranked by average response time across the 10 cities we check PayPal from, Ashburn 2nd, Chicago 5th, San Jose 6th; Frankfurt was fastest at 366 ms and Sydney slowest at 1,253 ms.
From Ashburn, San Jose, and Chicago we ran 50,898 checks of PayPal in 30 days, and 50,894 answered cleanly: 99.99% availability.
4 of the 30 days had at least one failed check. The weakest was Nov 4 (UTC), at 99.92% across 1,342 checks.
In Ashburn local time (EST), PayPal was slowest around 8 PM, at 664 ms on average over the last 14 days, and quickest around 10 AM, at 534 ms.
| Day (UTC) | Checks | Availability | Average response |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thu, Nov 5 | 1,003 | 100.00% | 792 ms |
| Wed, Nov 4 | 1,342 | 99.92% | 740 ms |
| Tue, Nov 3 | 1,315 | 100.00% | 807 ms |
| Mon, Nov 2 | 1,613 | 99.93% | 703 ms |
| Sun, Nov 1 | 1,793 | 100.00% | 633 ms |
| Sat, Oct 31 | 1,796 | 100.00% | 633 ms |
| Fri, Oct 30 | 1,795 | 100.00% | 657 ms |
| Thu, Oct 29 | 1,791 | 100.00% | 652 ms |
| Wed, Oct 28 | 1,794 | 100.00% | 632 ms |
| Tue, Oct 27 | 1,792 | 100.00% | 648 ms |
| Mon, Oct 26 | 1,795 | 99.94% | 696 ms |
| Sun, Oct 25 | 1,794 | 100.00% | 674 ms |
| Sat, Oct 24 | 1,798 | 100.00% | 665 ms |
| Fri, Oct 23 | 1,800 | 100.00% | 654 ms |
PayPal outages measured from the US
Our Ashburn, San Jose, and Chicago probes measured no confirmed PayPal outage in the last 90 days.
How the other regions read right now
Of the 7 other regions we check PayPal from, all 7 read checks passing right now.
| Probe city | Right now | Last 24h |
|---|---|---|
| Frankfurt | Checks passing | 100.00% of 388 checks |
| Tokyo | Checks passing | 100.00% of 239 checks |
| Toronto | Checks passing | 100.00% of 357 checks |
| London | Checks passing | 100.00% of 355 checks |
| Singapore | Checks passing | 100.00% of 354 checks |
| Sydney | Checks passing | 100.00% of 349 checks |
| São Paulo | Checks passing | 100.00% of 353 checks |
Other countries we check PayPal from
How we measured this
The US readings on this page come from RealUptime's own Ashburn, San Jose, and Chicago probes against PayPal's public endpoints. They are not user reports, and they are not PayPal's own status page.
See PayPal's full check readings, the 90-day history by region, or the outage tracker methodology.
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