Is CNN down or blocked? cnn.com status by country
Latest availability of cnn.com from about 90 countries: where it opens, where it is blocked and why.
Our latest check of cnn.com ran on 12 November 2026, 23:04 UTC from 83 countries. Its server answered normally from 82 of them; it did not answer from 1 (Iran).
A new check of cnn.com runs from about 90 countries at once and takes about a minute. The result below is the last saved one.
Check cnn.com nowWhere cnn.com has problems
| Country | Result | What we saw |
|---|---|---|
| Iran | Does not answer | The connection times out from this country |
Where the cnn.com server answers normally
Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Czechia, Côte d’Ivoire, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong SAR China, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Türkiye, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vietnam.
No usable answer came from 8 more countries this time; they are not counted.
About CNN
CNN is an American news network; cnn.com is its main news website with articles, video and live coverage of major events. Traffic to news sites rises sharply during breaking news, which sometimes slows them down. Restrictions on CNN usually come with wider limits on foreign media during conflicts or elections. A check by country shows whether cnn.com answers and how fast the secure connection is from each place.
Where CNN is blocked according to our data
Our records for cnn.com start on 5 November 2026, so blocking may have started earlier than the first date we saw it.
- Iran: did not answer in the latest check (the connection times out), first seen in our data on 10 November 2026.
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BBC, The New York Times, Deutsche Welle, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Meduza, Gmail. Any other website can be checked with the Global Availability Checker; country profiles are in website availability by country.
Frequently asked questions
Is CNN down right now?
Not for most of the world. In our latest check on 12 November 2026, 23:04 UTC cnn.com opened from 82 of 83 countries. If it does not open for you, the cause is more likely local: your provider, your network or a restriction in your country. Run a new check to see the current result for your country.
Why does CNN not open in my country?
When cnn.com works in other countries but not in yours, there are three usual reasons: a restriction ordered by authorities, filtering by your provider, or a network problem between your provider and CNN. A different security certificate, a reset connection or a wrong address from DNS are typical signs of filtering; a timeout can be either filtering or a network fault.
How is cnn.com checked?
From measurement points in about 90 countries we look up the address of cnn.com with the local DNS and open a secure connection to it, checking that the site returns its own certificate. We do not load the page content, and we do not publish which networks the measurements came from.
Last check: 12 November 2026, 23:04 UTC. This page is updated after each new check.