- Do you know when to check to see if you’ve landed a big prize?
- We publish the winners a day before the NS&I Prize Checker is updated
- Our table below shows the exact dates of the upcoming Premium Bonds draws
Every month a couple of people bag a million pounds in the Premium Bonds draw but while you’ll have memorised your birthday and probably the date of Christmas and Boxing Day, do you know when Premium Bonds Prize Day falls – the date the winning numbers are announced?
First of every month, you might say, but that’s not the whole story.
The lucky Premium Bonds numbers from £1,000 up to £1million are published on the first working day of the month.
That means if the first is a Saturday, Sunday or Bank Holiday you have to wait up to three days to learn of any good news.
Since the turn of the century, This is Money’s Premium Bonds Winning Numbers tables have been published on that first working day – a whole day before NS&I (previously National Savings and Investments) updates its own Premium Bond Prize Checker.
As an added bonus, our tables are interactive, allowing you to filter by location, the value of your holding, the date of purchase and of course, the amount you’ve won – without the need to know your bond holder number.
Have you won a prize: Use This is Money’s Premium Bond winners tables to filter by region, size of holding, value of the winning bond, purchase date and the prize amount
Premium Bonds are a tax-free Government-backed savings scheme that allows savers to pit up to 50,000 bonds against a digital random prize picker called Ernie – Electronic Random Number Indicator Equipment.
Each bond costs £1 and entitles the owner one entry in the draw. The maximum holding is £50,000.
Prizes range from £25 up to £1million.
Winners of the two monthly jackpots are apparently told of their good fortune in person but there is very little evidence of this.
As of January 2025, the prize fund rate – the amount of the total fund paid out in prizes – is 4 per cent after slipping back from 4.15 per cent.
NS&I dealt a double blow to savers by announcing cuts to the prize fund rate in October and November. October’s cut saw the rate fall from 4.4 per cent, where it had been since March 2024, to 4.15 per cent from the December Draw.
The prize fund reached a 24-year high of 4.65 per cent in August 2023.
The odds of winning a prize are now 22,000 to one, lengthening from 21,000 to one.
Here are the dates of the prize draw announcements for the coming year.
| 2025 | Results publication date |
|---|---|
| February | Monday 3rd |
| March | Monday 3rd |
| April | Tuesday 1st |
| May | Thursday 1st |
| June | Monday 2nd |
| July | Thursday 1st |
| August | Friday 1st |
| September | Monday 1st |
| October | Wednesday 1st |
| November | November 3rd |
| December | Monday 1st |
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