Formula 1 reveals the 2027 calendar, with ten sprints and a season running from February to 12 December

Formula 1 has published its 2027 calendar, and the headline number is not the 24 races. It is ten. The sport has almost doubled its sprint count, put one of them in Monaco, and built a year that is on track from late February until 12 December, which is close to ten months of running.

Ten sprint weekends, and one of them is Monaco

The number that will be argued about is ten. Formula 1 has almost doubled its sprint count, from six in 2026 to ten in 2027, and five circuits host one for the first time: Bahrain, Australia, Japan, Monaco and Abu Dhabi. Canada, Great Britain, Italy, Brazil and Qatar keep theirs.

Monaco is the one that stands out, and not because it is glamorous. It is the circuit where the entire sport agrees you cannot overtake, run twice in one weekend. Either Formula 1 believes the 2027 cars change that, or it has decided that a short race around Monaco is worth watching for reasons that have nothing to do with passing.

Portugal and Turkiye return, Barcelona and Imola do not

Portimao comes back in June for the first time since 2021, and Istanbul Park returns in October, also absent since 2021, on a five year agreement. Both are circuits drivers tend to rate and promoters tend to struggle to pay for.

The Spanish Grand Prix stays in Madrid, which means Barcelona has no round in 2027. Imola is absent too. Add Zandvoort and that is three European races gone, replaced by two.

Ten months on track, from February testing to 12 December

The first cars run in February. Bahrain hosts a four day pre-season test from 24 to 27 February, and the championship comes straight back to Sakhir for the opening race on 12 to 14 March. From that test to the chequered flag at Yas Island on 12 December is nine and a half months, and the last two rounds, Qatar and Abu Dhabi, are back to back sprint events.

In between there is a triple header in April, with Australia, Japan and China on consecutive weekends, and the European run is compressed: Portugal, Britain, Austria and Belgium inside six weeks before the August break.

No Dutch Grand Prix, and Zandvoort chose that itself

Zandvoort’s absence is the line Dutch readers will look for first, and it is the one piece of this calendar that is not news. The decision was taken almost two years ago, and it was taken in Zandvoort.

The Dutch Grand Prix organisation announced on 4 December 2024 that the 2026 edition would be its last, after agreeing a one year extension with Formula One Management. The decision came from Zandvoort, not from the sport.

“We are a privately owned and operated business, and we must balance the opportunities presented by continuing to host the event, against other risks and responsibilities,” said Robert van Overdijk, director of the Dutch Grand Prix, when the decision was made public. “We wanted to take this step, while our event is adored and supported by passionate fans, residents, and the Formula 1 community.”

That is a rare thing to read from a promoter. Most circuits leave the calendar because the money runs out or the contract is not renewed. Zandvoort sold out every year it held the race and stopped anyway, on its own timing.

The goodbye is therefore already behind us. The final Dutch Grand Prix ran in August, with a sprint, and Lando Norris took the last pole in the history of the event. What this calendar does is put it in writing.

The 2027 calendar in full

Turkiye carries an asterisk on the published calendar, marked subject to FIA circuit homologation.

We keep the schedule on its own page as well, with the sprint weekends marked and the pre-season test included: Formula 1 calendar 2027.

Our first thought: the sprint at Monaco is the gamble

Nine of the ten sprint venues make obvious sense. They are circuits where a short race with a fixed grid can still produce something, either because overtaking is possible or because the tyres misbehave.

Monaco is neither. Formula 1 has spent years trying to fix a race that is decided on Saturday, and has now added a second race that will also be decided on Saturday. If the 2027 cars really do follow more closely, this is the most visible place to prove it. If they do not, this is the most visible place to fail, and everybody will be watching.

One asterisk, and a region that has already moved a race once

Two things on this calendar are less settled than the graphic suggests. Istanbul needs its circuit homologation signed off, and the Middle Eastern rounds sit in a region that has already forced a change this season: the 2026 Bahrain race was moved to Malaysia. Formula 1 has said contingency plans exist.

For Dutch readers the practical consequence is simpler. From 2027 the nearest races are Spa in July and Monza in September, and Zandvoort becomes a place you visit for other championships. Our coverage of the final Dutch Grand Prix is here, and the current season’s table is on our Formula 1 standings page.