diff --git a/docs/misc/changelog.rst b/docs/misc/changelog.rst
index 0c08db689a..2e0a1f0f3e 100644
--- a/docs/misc/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/misc/changelog.rst
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ Bug Fixes:
 - Fix seeding, so it is now possible to have deterministic results on cpu
 - Fix a bug in DDPG where `predict` method with `deterministic=False` would fail
 - Fix a bug in TRPO: mean_losses was not initialized causing the logger to crash when there was no gradients (@MarvineGothic)
+- Fix a bug in PPO2: total_episode_reward_logger should be called before incrementing num_timesteps
 
 Deprecations:
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
diff --git a/stable_baselines/ppo2/ppo2.py b/stable_baselines/ppo2/ppo2.py
index 6d998d2d18..be8c6e7c8d 100644
--- a/stable_baselines/ppo2/ppo2.py
+++ b/stable_baselines/ppo2/ppo2.py
@@ -333,6 +333,11 @@ def learn(self, total_timesteps, callback=None, log_interval=1, tb_log_name="PPO
                 cliprange_vf_now = cliprange_vf(frac)
                 # true_reward is the reward without discount
                 obs, returns, masks, actions, values, neglogpacs, states, ep_infos, true_reward = runner.run()
+                if writer is not None:
+                    self.episode_reward = total_episode_reward_logger(self.episode_reward,
+                                                                      true_reward.reshape((self.n_envs, self.n_steps)),
+                                                                      masks.reshape((self.n_envs, self.n_steps)),
+                                                                      writer, self.num_timesteps)
                 self.num_timesteps += self.n_batch
                 ep_info_buf.extend(ep_infos)
                 mb_loss_vals = []
@@ -373,12 +378,6 @@ def learn(self, total_timesteps, callback=None, log_interval=1, tb_log_name="PPO
                 t_now = time.time()
                 fps = int(self.n_batch / (t_now - t_start))
 
-                if writer is not None:
-                    self.episode_reward = total_episode_reward_logger(self.episode_reward,
-                                                                      true_reward.reshape((self.n_envs, self.n_steps)),
-                                                                      masks.reshape((self.n_envs, self.n_steps)),
-                                                                      writer, self.num_timesteps)
-
                 if self.verbose >= 1 and (update % log_interval == 0 or update == 1):
                     explained_var = explained_variance(values, returns)
                     logger.logkv("serial_timesteps", update * self.n_steps)