At what time of the day are the whales upvoting?

We all want to catch a whale with our posts on Steemit.com, don't we? But when is the best time to throw out your fishing rod to catch one of the big fat whales of our Steem community?

This is a follow up post of my post: At what time of the day are the most Steemians online?

All data is based on USA Eastern Time. If you live in Europe you can add 5 hours for Central European Time (CET). I've used the votes made in a 3 week period between April 13 and yesterday, May 4.

1. Only the biggest whales (> 500,000 SP)

For the first chart I've taken all whales into account with 500,000 Steem Power or more. Some of the whales are currently not upvoting because of the "whales-not-voting-experiment" so I left them out of my calculations. Here are the Steem accounts I used for the first chart:
_{@abit, @adm, @blocktrades, @created, @dan, @dantheman, @engagement, @hendrikdegrote, @jamesc, @jamesc1, @ned, @pharesim, @rainman, @roadscape, @smooth, @thejohalfiles, @tombstone, @trafalgar, @wackou, @xeldal}

Time	Votes
0:00 - 0:59	38
1:00 - 1:59	21
2:00 - 2:59	29
3:00 - 3:59	22
4:00 - 4:59	26
5:00 - 5:59	26
6:00 - 6:59	35
7:00 - 7:59	38
8:00 - 8:59	34
9:00 - 9:59	53
10:00 - 10:59	49
11:00 - 11:59	46
12:00 - 12:59	49
13:00 - 13:59	45
14:00 - 14:59	45
15:00 - 15:59	46
16:00 - 16:59	41
17:00 - 17:59	43
18:00 - 18:59	44
19:00 - 19:59	38
20:00 - 20:59	37
21:00 - 21:59	31
22:00 - 22:59	27
23:00 - 23:59	27

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2. All whales (> 250,000 SP)

For the second chart I've added all whale accounts with at least 250,000 Steem Power. Some of these whales only vote with 1% of their voting power. That's fine, but I left these votes out of my calculations, because I don't consider a 1% vote as a whale vote. Here are the whales I've added for the second chart. The whales listed above are included as well.
_{@abdullar, @bhuz, @donkeypong, @fminerten, @fulltimegeek, @fuzzyvest, @gavvet, @glitterfart, @honeybeee, @htooms, @inv, @jejujinfarm, @julianita, @kushed, @nanzo-scoop, @onceuponatime, @recursive, @renohq, @slowwalker, @steemed, @steempty, @summon, @tamim, @thecyclist, @thisvsthis, @transisto}

Time	Votes
0:00 - 0:59	74
1:00 - 1:59	52
2:00 - 2:59	66
3:00 - 3:59	47
4:00 - 4:59	47
5:00 - 5:59	52
6:00 - 6:59	60
7:00 - 7:59	70
8:00 - 8:59	73
9:00 - 9:59	131
10:00 - 10:59	108
11:00 - 11:59	95
12:00 - 12:59	119
13:00 - 13:59	100
14:00 - 14:59	93
15:00 - 15:59	96
16:00 - 16:59	85
17:00 - 17:59	87
18:00 - 18:59	97
19:00 - 19:59	84
20:00 - 20:59	86
21:00 - 21:59	66
22:00 - 22:59	81
23:00 - 23:59	77

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The best time to post?

I assume most of the whales live in the USA. After having breakfast and brushing their whale teeth they start upvoting between 9:00 and 10:00 AM. If you manage to get out of bed and have your post ready before 9:00 AM (Eastern Time) you have the best chance to catch a whale. Good luck!

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