Formula E published the calendar for its eleventh season. Twenty-one races in thirteen cities, three of them completely new to the championship: COTA in Austin, Brands Hatch in the United Kingdom and Zandvoort in the Netherlands. Behind the geographical expansion lies an inevitable mechanical reason. The new GEN4 car reaches 600 kW of power and needs space to reach those speeds without every wall of a street circuit interrupting it. The electric category has grown, and the circuits where it was born are no longer enough.

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An intercontinental calendar

The season begins in Jeddah on December 18 and 19, 2026 with a double-header night race on the Corniche Circuit. The championship then crosses to the Americas for two months of racing: Mexico City on January 16 at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Austin on February 6 at COTA, Miami on February 20 at the Hard Rock Stadium circuit, and São Paulo on March 13 at the Anhembi Sambadrome. Sanya, on the Chinese island of Hainan, breaks the Americas run on April 17 before the European leg.

Europe hosts twelve of the twenty-one races across six double-header weekends. Berlin returns to the Tempelhof Airport circuit on May 8 and 9. Monaco keeps its date on May 15 and 16. And London, which for years raced on the indoor circuit at the ExCeL, moves to Brands Hatch on May 29 and 30, a circuit that Formula 1 left in 1986 and that now welcomes the electric category. Zandvoort, which Formula 1 will drop at the end of 2026, joins on June 18 and 19, and the Jarama circuit near Madrid closes the European block on June 26 and 27. The season ends in Asia-Pacific with Shanghai on July 10 and 11 and Tokyo on July 24 and 25.

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The E-PrixUnleashed and the new format

The other change introduced by the GEN4 era is the E-PrixUnleashed, a short 30-minute race that will be held on Saturdays of double-header weekends. It will use a high-downforce aerodynamic configuration, will not have the mandatory PIT BOOST stop, and the ATTACK MODE window is shortened to 6 minutes. Sunday maintains the traditional format: 45 minutes, low downforce, 8 minutes of ATTACK MODE and a pit stop. Alberto Longo, co-founder and CEO of the championship, said the calendar is the most ambitious in the history of the category and that the new venues give the GEN4 the space it needs. Marek Nawarecki explained that the sporting regulations were developed with the teams so that the rules are up to what the car can do.

New teams

Opel joins the grid and will compete against Jaguar, Nissan, Citroën, Lola Cars, Mahindra and Porsche. The FIA detailed that the GEN4 was built with materials that can be completely recycled or reused and that each supplier was chosen based on ethical sourcing and low environmental footprint criteria.

In 2014, Formula E asked its drivers to change cars mid-race because the battery would not last to the end. Twelve years later, the championship schedules 21 races on three continents with a car that nearly triples the power of that first generation. Brands Hatch had not hosted a world single-seater category since 1986. Zandvoort joins just as its cycle with Formula 1 ends. COTA, the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Shanghai and Jarama complete a calendar that in 2027 will feature more permanent circuits than street courses.

Formula E 2026–2027 Calendar

Round	Venue	Circuit	Circuit Type	Date
1 & 2	Jeddah, Saudi Arabia	Jeddah Corniche Circuit	Semi-permanent street	December 18 & 19, 2026
3	Mexico City, Mexico	Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez	Permanent	January 16, 2027
4	Austin, United States	Circuit of The Americas (COTA)	Permanent	February 6, 2027
5	Miami, United States	Miami International Autodrome	Semi-permanent street	February 20, 2027
6	São Paulo, Brazil	Anhembi Sambadrome Circuit	Semi-permanent street	March 13, 2027
7	Sanya, China	Haitang Bay Circuit	Street	April 17, 2027
8 & 9	Berlin, Germany	Tempelhof Airport Street Circuit	Temporary airport	May 8 & 9, 2027
10 & 11	Monaco	Circuit de Monaco	Street	May 15 & 16, 2027
12 & 13	London, United Kingdom	Brands Hatch	Permanent	May 29 & 30, 2027
14 & 15	Zandvoort, Netherlands	MASCOT Zandvoort Circuit	Permanent	June 18 & 19, 2027
16 & 17	Madrid, Spain	Circuito de Madrid Jarama-RACE	Permanent	June 26 & 27, 2027
18 & 19	Shanghai, China	Shanghai International Circuit	Permanent	July 10 & 11, 2027
20 & 21	Tokyo, Japan	Tokyo Street Circuit	Street	July 24 & 25, 2027