Is YouTube down or blocked? youtube.com status by country
Latest availability of youtube.com from about 90 countries: where it opens, where it is blocked and why.
Our latest check of youtube.com ran on 12 November 2026, 23:46 UTC from 87 countries. Its server answered normally from 86 of them; signs of blocking were found in 1 (Russia); it did not answer from 1 (China).
A new check of youtube.com runs from about 90 countries at once and takes about a minute. The result below is the last saved one.
Check youtube.com nowWhere youtube.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 |
| China | Does not answer | The connection times out from this country |
| Cambodia | Slow | The server answers, but the secure connection is slow |
Where the youtube.com server answers normally
Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Czechia, Côte d’Ivoire, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Hong Kong SAR China, Hungary, India, Indonesia, 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, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Tunisia, Türkiye, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vietnam.
No usable answer came from 4 more countries this time; they are not counted.
About YouTube
YouTube is the video platform owned by Google, used for music, news, education and live streams. The site itself, the mobile apps and embedded players on other websites all load video from Google's network, so a problem with youtube.com usually shows up everywhere at once. When YouTube does not open, the cause is either an outage on Google's side, a problem with your provider or a restriction applied in your country. Video traffic is large, so some providers slow it down instead of blocking it fully: the page opens, but videos buffer or stop.
Where YouTube is blocked according to our data
Our records for youtube.com start on 26 October 2026, so blocking may have started earlier than the first date we saw it.
- Iran: no usable answer in the latest check, first seen in our data on 4 November 2026.
- Russia: blocked on some networks now (the connection is reset), first seen in our data on 26 October 2026.
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Frequently asked questions
Is YouTube down right now?
Not for most of the world. In our latest check on 12 November 2026, 23:46 UTC youtube.com opened from 86 of 87 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 YouTube not open in my country?
When youtube.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 YouTube. 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 youtube.com checked?
From measurement points in about 90 countries we look up the address of youtube.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, 23:46 UTC. This page is updated after each new check.