East Austin
Nickel City
$$The cheapest thing to eat during happy hour.
- Mon–Fri 12–6 PM
- Mon, Tue 6 PM–2 AM
$0.99 Wings (with purchase of beverage)
The full East Austin guide →Austin, TX · Updated July 2026
The Austin happy hour guide
Eleven neighborhood guides and seven day-of-week guides, drawn from the 600+ bars and restaurants and 7,000+ food and drink deals Zappy tracks across Austin. Where to start in each part of town, and when it actually runs.
Start here
One pick per neighborhood
The lead pick from each of the eleven guides, with hours from our database rather than the article. Eleven names is not a guide; the guides are below. But if you want a first answer, these are ours.
Downtown Austin
Two-dollar oysters, in a room that shouldn't have them.
- Mon–Fri 3–6 PM
$2 Oysters (Priced individually but sold by the half dozen)
The full Downtown Austin guide →Central Austin
The cheapest thing on any happy hour menu in Austin.
- Wed–Sat 11 AM–8 PM
- Sat 11:30 AM–8 PM
- Sat 12–8 PM
- Wed–Fri 4–6 PM
$0.35 Peel n' East Shrimp
The full Central Austin guide →South Central Austin
Ex Files
$A dollar margarita and a two-dollar taco.
- Daily 12 PM–2 AM
$1 Margarita
The full South Central Austin guide →South Austin
Fifty-cent wings.
- Sat, Sun 11 AM–4 PM
- Tue, Wed 11–12 AM
- Fri 4–8 PM
- Mon 8 PM–12 AM
$0.50 Wings
The full South Austin guide →North Austin
Dollar oysters.
- Daily 3–6 PM
$1 Chef's Choice Oysters
The full North Austin guide →West Austin
Fifty-cent wings, in the most expensive part of town.
- Mon–Wed 7 AM–10 PM
- Thu 7 AM–11 PM
- Sat, Sun 8 AM–11 PM
- Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri 3–7 PM
- Mon, Tue 9–10 PM
- Thu, Fri 9–11 PM
$0.50 Boneless Wings
The full West Austin guide →Southwest Austin
Sway
$$$The largest happy hour board in Southwest Austin.
- Mon–Fri 4–6 PM
$8 Pork Satay
The full Southwest Austin guide →Northwest Austin
The Boat
$$The biggest board out here.
- Mon–Thu 11 AM–10 PM
- Tue–Fri 4–7 PM
$4 Tacos (choose between steak, chicken, shrimp, fish, or fried avocado)
The full Northwest Austin guide →Southeast Austin
20+ deals, and the only zero-proof option.
- Mon–Thu 4–6 PM
$5 Electric Jellyfish - Draft
The full Southeast Austin guide →Northeast Austin
The most deals in Northeast Austin.
- Sun 11 AM–3 PM
- Wed 11 AM–9 PM
- Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri 3–6 PM
$2 off Onion Rings
The full Northeast Austin guide →Choose your area
Where are you drinking?
Eleven neighborhood guides, biggest first. Each one is a written shortlist, not the whole database. The whole database is the app.
East Austin
100+East Sixth, Cesar Chavez and Manor Road: patios, breweries and the densest run of deals in the city.
1,000+ deals
Downtown Austin
100+Rainey Street, the Warehouse District, Sixth and everything between the lake and the Capitol.
1,000+ deals
Central Austin
90+The Drag, Hyde Park, North Loop and the campus district.
900+ deals
South Central Austin
70+South Congress, South First and Bouldin: walkable, patio-heavy, busy early.
800+ deals
South Austin
50+South Lamar and the stretch below Ben White.
600+ deals
North Austin
40+Burnet Road, North Lamar and the Domain end of town.
700+ deals
West Austin
30+Clarksville, Tarrytown and West Sixth.
400+ deals
Southwest Austin
30+Barton Creek, Oak Hill and the 290 corridor.
500+ deals
Northwest Austin
16Far West, Anderson Lane and the 183 corridor.
100+ deals
Southeast Austin
14Riverside, Montopolis and out toward the airport.
100+ deals
Northeast Austin
10Mueller, Windsor Park and the 290-East side.
80+ deals
Or choose your day
Which night are you going out?
The weekdays run close together, then the weekend falls away: 600+ places on a Thursday against 200+ on a Saturday. One guide per day, with what's actually open.
What you get
Written, not scraped
Every guide is put together from what we track across all 600+ places, so the picks are informed by the data, and the claims in them are ones we can actually back up.
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Where to start
A shortlist per neighborhood, each one chosen for a reason we can name (cheapest, longest, only one open Sundays) rather than a star rating.
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When it actually runs
The shape of happy hour in that part of town: what time it tends to start, when it stops, and which places break the pattern.
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Food and zero-proof, not just drinks
Food is the biggest category Zappy tracks. Every guide flags the places that discount food, and the ones that discount non-alcoholic drinks.
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Hours that don’t go stale
Opening times are pulled from Zappy’s database when the page is built, never typed into the article, so a window that changes upstream changes here too.
How current is this?
Every listing tells you its own age
Each venue carries a "Checked" date: the month we last confirmed it against a menu, a website or a visit. Happy hour changes constantly: a bar drops a deal, moves its window, or quietly stops doing Mondays. An older date isn't a wrong listing, but it is a good reason to call ahead.
The page itself was generated in July 2026. The app is the live version: it knows what time it is, shows what's running right now, and gets corrections the day we make them. Here's how we collect the data.
Spotted something wrong, or a happy hour we're missing? Send it over. Reader submissions are one of the main ways this stays accurate.
Common questions
What time is happy hour in Austin?
Late afternoon, overwhelmingly: 59% of the 1,000+ happy hour windows we track start between 3 and 5 PM, and the single most common window is 3–6 PM. A smaller set runs late into the evening or all day; the day-of-week guides flag those.
Which day has the most happy hours in Austin?
Thursday, with 600+ places running a window, though every weekday lands close to that. The weekend is the drop: 200+ places on Saturday and 300+ on Sunday.
Are there weekend happy hours in Austin?
Yes. 200+ places run a Saturday window and 300+ run one on Sunday, against 600+ on a Thursday. The Saturday and Sunday guides list where to start.
Which part of Austin has the most happy hours?
East Austin by place count, with 100+ places running 1,000+ deals; Downtown Austin runs it close. Each neighborhood guide opens with the numbers for its own patch.
Free to look. Always was.
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