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Is PayPal down right now?

PayPal appears to be operating normally.

Independent community-run outage tracker · Not affiliated with PayPal.

Live·Checking probes…·Last status change 11d ago

OperationalOpen PayPal
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Major incidents
0
Regional issues
N/A
Est. user impact
0%
low
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// Drill deeper

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// What we're seeing
Recent outages
No user spikeProbes idleDNS unknownNo chatter spikeNo anomaly detected
// Global impact
Live map
Status by region
  • Operational27
  • Degraded0
  • Outage0
  • No data0
// Signals summary
User Reports
Quiet
No recent surge
Synthetic Probes
No data
Awaiting probe
DNS
Unknown
No data
External Chatter
Quiet
No meaningful chatter
News & Network
Normal
No anomaly detected
// Official status
No incidents reported by PayPal.
// Timeline · last hour
−60mnow
// Drill deeper
All PayPal signals Regions & probes Incidents history
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// Health check

Health check

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// Reports · last 60 min

Reports, last 60 min

0 total reports in last hour
// Issue breakdown

Issue breakdown

No reports in the last hour.

// signal coverage · 8/11 sources
all clear
Direct measurementOur own probes hitting the service from the internet
  • ProbesQuiet
  • DNSQuiet
  • BGPN/A
  • TLSQuiet
  • ISPN/A
Provider signalsWhat the company itself is publishing
  • Status pageQuiet
  • CloudN/A
Community chatterWhat real users and the press are saying
  • ReportsQuiet
  • SocialQuiet
  • HNQuiet
  • NewsQuiet
Healthydata flowing, no problemsPartialsome regions or checks failingIssuesignal indicates a problemQuietsubscribed, nothing to reportN/Anot applicable to this service

We cross-reference every source above before calling an outage. One noisy signal doesn't escalate, we wait for independent confirmation.

// Detailed telemetry

// Regional reachability for PayPal

Last 15 min · 27 regions

Asia-Pacific

  • Hong Kong, HK1172 msReachable
  • Mumbai, IN982 msReachable
  • Seoul, KR689 msReachable
  • Singapore, SG1152 msReachable
  • Sydney, AU1265 msReachable
  • Tokyo, JP1287 msReachable

Europe

  • Dublin, IE957 msReachable
  • Frankfurt, DE1058 msReachable
  • London, GB619 msReachable
  • Madrid, ES1329 msReachable
  • Paris, FR1023 msReachable
  • Stockholm, SE1072 msReachable

Latin America

  • Buenos Aires, AR1959 msReachable
  • Santiago, CL1837 msReachable
  • Sao Paulo, BR2178 msReachable

Middle East & Africa

  • Dubai, AE952 msReachable
  • Johannesburg, ZA1776 msReachable
  • Tel Aviv, IL1115 msReachable

North America

  • Ashburn, US3274 msReachable
  • Chicago, US2062 msReachable
  • Columbus, US2168 msReachable
  • Dallas, US2543 msReachable
  • Mexico City, MX2206 msReachable
  • Portland, US3296 msReachable
  • San Jose, US2851 msReachable
  • Toronto, CA2504 msReachable
  • Vancouver, CA3297 msReachable

Live regional checks for PayPal from probes in 5 world regions. Updated continuously.

Probe diagnostics

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Regional reports

Not enough regional signal yet.

Official sources (for reference)

What PayPal's own status page is reporting. Our verdict above weighs this alongside independent signals, it does not rely on it.

// Current status

Current PayPal status

PayPal status: Operational. Nothing's wrong that we can see. Looks like things are working for most people. In the last hour, Downrightnow received 0 user reports.

// Recent user reports

Recent PayPal user reports

No user reports for PayPal in the last hour.

// Common problems

Common PayPal problems

// What to do

What to do if PayPal is not working

  1. 01Check this page, if many users are reporting PayPal issues, it's not just you.
  2. 02Refresh PayPal or restart the app. Many transient errors clear on a second try.
  3. 03Check your internet connection and try a different network (Wi-Fi vs. cellular).
  4. 04Clear the PayPal app cache or sign out and back in.
  5. 05Update the PayPal app to the latest version.
  6. 06Check the official PayPal status page or social channels for confirmation.
  7. 07If PayPal is confirmed down, wait it out, outages are usually fixed within minutes to a few hours.
// Outage history

Recent PayPal outage history

No incidents on record for PayPal.
// Historical lookback

PayPal outage history

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