Between draw 3373, played on Wednesday, April 1, 2020, and draw 3374, on Sunday, July 26, 116 days went by without a single Melate draw taking place. It's the only real gap in almost two decades of records: not a one-day postponement, not a schedule tweak, but four full months of silence, right through the hardest months of Mexico's pandemic lockdown. Today, if you're wondering when Melate draws come back, the answer is simple: they already did, more than six years ago, and they've been held without fail every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday ever since.
The short answer: Melate draws never stopped
Outside that 2020 episode, Melate hasn't had any other recorded interruption. The game is drawn three times a week — Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, around 9:00 p.m. — following the same format it's had for years: six numbers from 1 to 56 plus an additional number. If it's been a while since you last checked results and you spot a draw number far higher than you remember, that's not "skipped" dates — it's simply that a draw has happened every two or three days, without exception, since July 2020. You can read up on how the full game works in our guide to how Melate is played, and the exact days and times in what time Melate is drawn.
When do Melate draws come back? What happened the one time they really stopped
Spring 2020 was strange for almost everything in Mexico, and Melate was no exception. The streets were empty, the shops that sold tickets shut their doors, and the weekly broadcast of the draw — that 9 p.m. ritual so many families had running in the background over dinner — simply stopped. The last draw before the pause was number 3373, on April 1. The next one didn't arrive until July 26, as draw 3374. A hundred and sixteen days in between: by far the longest gap in the entire record MelateBot has kept since 2007.
What's notable is what happened next: as soon as draws resumed, the numbering simply picked up where it left off (3374, 3375, 3376...) and the Wednesday-Friday-Sunday calendar returned exactly as it had been before. There was no "relaunch" with new rules or a different format. It was, literally, picking the thread back up where it was cut.
The jackpot that barely moved: the proof is in the numbers
There's a detail in the data that illustrates what that pause meant better than any explanation could. In a normal draw, when the top prize rolls over, the accumulated jackpot usually grows by several million pesos from one date to the next: between draw 3372 and 3373, for instance, it climbed from 157,000,000 to 160,800,000 pesos — almost 3.8 million in a single jump. But between draw 3373 (160,800,000 pesos) and 3374, 116 days later, the jackpot had only reached 160,900,000 pesos: it grew by one hundred thousand pesos in three and a half months. That makes sense — with no draws, there are no new tickets feeding the pot, so the number stayed essentially frozen until the game started rolling again.
Why the question keeps coming back
If that pause happened more than six years ago, why do people keep searching for when Melate draws come back? For very human reasons. Someone stops playing for a while — money, habit, whatever it is — and when they start paying attention again, they're not sure the game is even still running. Someone else finds an old ticket in a drawer, dated years back, and before tossing it wants to confirm whether that draw ever actually happened. And for anyone who lived through 2020 up close, the doubt of "what if it happened again and I missed it" is a fair one — it did happen once.
What the available data does support is this: going through the complete draw history — from 2007 to today — that 116-day gap is the only interruption of more than a few days on record. Before and after it, the Wednesday-Friday-Sunday pattern holds without fail.
Could it happen again?
No one can guarantee that an extraordinary event — a public health emergency, a natural disaster, a major technical failure — won't interrupt a draw again at some point; that's beyond what any site can promise. What the record does make clear is that when it happened, it was due to an exceptional cause the entire country lived through, not a decision to stop running the game, and that as soon as conditions allowed, draws resumed with the same numbering and the same rules as always. There's no sign, in nearly twenty years of data, that this is a pattern that repeats regularly.
Where to confirm the most recent draw (or one from years ago)
If what you actually want is to settle the question about a specific draw — this week's, or one you played a while back — there's no need to guess. For the most recent result, the fastest source is the Melate results page, updated draw by draw. If you'd rather follow the draw live or get in the habit of checking from your phone, this guide to apps and sites for following Melate walks through the options. And if what you're holding is exactly that — an old ticket that turned up in a drawer and you want to know if it won anything — how to check a Melate ticket walks through the process step by step, while the Melate draw history lets you search by date or draw number, including ones from 2020.
Frequently asked questions
When is the next Melate draw?
Melate is drawn every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, around 9:00 p.m., without exception since July 2020. To find the exact date of the next one or confirm whether today's has already happened, the most direct way is to check the updated results.
Did Melate ever stop being drawn?
Yes, once: between April 1 and July 26, 2020 — 116 days — coinciding with the strictest months of Mexico's pandemic lockdown. Outside that period, there's no other interruption of more than a few days on record across nearly twenty years of history.
Why can't I find the result of an old draw?
It could be a typo in the draw number, or the date could fall outside the digitized range. The draw history lets you search by date or number and is the most reliable place to check before assuming a draw "went missing."
How often is Melate drawn?
Three times a week: Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. It's the same rhythm since draws resumed in July 2020, and it matches what the game had before that date.
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