Is Medium down or blocked? medium.com status by country
Latest availability of medium.com from about 90 countries: where it opens, where it is blocked and why.
Our latest check of medium.com ran on 12 November 2026, 16:43 UTC from 86 countries. Its server answered normally from 85 of them; signs of blocking were found in 1 (Russia).
A new check of medium.com runs from about 90 countries at once and takes about a minute. The result below is the last saved one.
Check medium.com nowWhere medium.com has problems
| Country | Result | What we saw |
|---|---|---|
| Russia | Blocked on some networks | The server answers on some networks; on others the connection is reset: blocking depends on the provider |
Where the medium.com server answers normally
Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Czechia, Côte d’Ivoire, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Hong Kong SAR China, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tunisia, Türkiye, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vietnam.
No usable answer came from 5 more countries this time; they are not counted.
About Medium
Medium is a publishing platform for articles and blogs on technology, business, culture and personal topics. Writers publish on medium.com directly or on custom domains, and some articles sit behind a membership. Because anyone can publish there, Medium has been blocked in a few countries over single articles. A check by country shows whether medium.com answers from each place right now.
Where Medium is blocked according to our data
Our records for medium.com start on 27 October 2026, so blocking may have started earlier than the first date we saw it.
- China: answered normally in the latest check, first seen in our data on 5 November 2026.
- Russia: blocked on some networks now (the connection is reset), first seen in our data on 27 October 2026.
- Vietnam: answered normally in the latest check, first seen in our data on 7 November 2026.
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Frequently asked questions
Is Medium down right now?
Not for most of the world. In our latest check on 12 November 2026, 16:43 UTC medium.com opened from 85 of 86 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 Medium not open in my country?
When medium.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 Medium. 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 medium.com checked?
From measurement points in about 90 countries we look up the address of medium.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, 16:43 UTC. This page is updated after each new check.