2026 F1 Calendar: Race Schedule, Locations and Key Dates

Updated

The 2026 F1 season runs from Melbourne in March to Abu Dhabi in December, with 24 Grands Prix on the calendar. Each round is a full race weekend — practice, qualifying and the race — and most European and flyaway events also host FIA Formula 2 and Formula 3 support races, so a single trip can cover three championships. The full, filterable schedule with session times converted to your local timezone is available on raceweek.io, which lists 364 events across 34 series for 2026.

How many races are on the 2026 F1 calendar?

24 Grands Prix, starting with the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne and ending with the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. That is the same headline count as recent seasons, and it makes 2026 one of the longest calendars in the sport's history.

The season is structured in three broad blocks:

  • Early season (March–May): Australia, then the Asian and Middle Eastern rounds, followed by the first European races including Imola and Monaco.
  • European summer (May–July): the densest part of the calendar — Spain, Canada, Austria, Silverstone, Belgium and Hungary cluster within a few weeks.
  • Flyaway finish (September–December): Monza, then the Americas and Asia-Pacific rounds, closing in Abu Dhabi.

Key dates and locations

Round Grand Prix Circuit Approximate window
1 Australia Melbourne March
— Middle East / Asia rounds Various March–April
— Emilia-Romagna Imola May
— Monaco Monte Carlo May
— Spain Barcelona Late May / June
— Canada Montréal June
— Austria Spielberg June
— Great Britain Silverstone Early July
— Belgium Spa-Francorchamps Late July
— Hungary Budapest August
— Italy Monza September
— Americas rounds Austin, Mexico City, São Paulo, Las Vegas October–November
— Finale Abu Dhabi December

Exact dates shift year to year, so treat the windows above as planning ranges rather than fixed fixtures. The authoritative, always-updated version is the calendar on raceweek.io, which shows each session in your own timezone.

What a race weekend actually contains

A standard F1 weekend is not one event but a sequence of sessions, and knowing the order matters if you are booking travel or setting alarms:

  1. Practice — usually two or three sessions on Friday (or Thursday for some street circuits).
  2. Qualifying — sets the grid for Sunday's race.
  3. Sprint sessions — at selected rounds, a shorter race on Saturday sets part of the weekend's points.
  4. The Grand Prix — Sunday afternoon local time.

Because session times are published in circuit-local time, a race in Melbourne or Suzuka can fall in the middle of the night for European and American viewers. A calendar that converts to your local timezone removes that guesswork.

F1 weekends and the support series

F2 and F3 are the primary feeder championships to F1, and both run largely alongside the F1 calendar:

  • FIA Formula 2: 14 rounds in 2026 supporting F1, with qualifying, a sprint race and a feature race each weekend, from Melbourne to Abu Dhabi.
  • FIA Formula 3: 9 rounds in 2026 supporting F1, with the same qualifying/sprint/feature structure at iconic venues.

If you are attending a European round in person, checking whether F2 and F3 are on the same bill is worth doing before you buy tickets — it effectively triples the amount of racing on a single weekend.

How to view the full 2026 calendar

To plan around the season rather than just read the headline dates:

  1. Open a calendar that covers multiple series, not F1 alone — raceweek.io lists 364 events across 34 championships, including F1, WEC, IMSA, MotoGP, IndyCar, NASCAR, WRC, DTM and Formula E.
  2. Filter to the series you follow, so F1 weekends sit alongside endurance, rally and touring car events you may also want to watch.
  3. Check session times in your local timezone, which the site displays automatically.
  4. Use the "what's racing this week" view when you want a short-term answer rather than the whole year.

This is useful if your interest extends beyond F1 — the same source covers the FIA World Endurance Championship (8 rounds in 2026, headlined by Le Mans), the European Le Mans Series (6 rounds), DTM (8 rounds) and the British Touring Car Championship (10 rounds), so you can see where a motorsport trip could combine two events.

Common planning pitfalls

  • Assuming dates are fixed. Calendar windows move between seasons; always confirm against a live, updated source rather than a saved screenshot.
  • Forgetting timezone conversion. A Sunday race in Asia or Australia may be a Saturday night for you.
  • Booking around the race only. Practice and qualifying often fall on different days, and support-series sessions can start earlier than the F1 programme.
  • Treating F1 as the whole weekend. At many rounds, F2, F3 and sometimes other series share the bill.