F1 street circuits: the 2026 list and their history

Which street circuits are on the 2026 calendar?

Eight of the 23 rounds in 2026 are held on street circuits. The shortest of them is Monaco and the longest is Las Vegas. Here, street circuits are the ones the f1db results database classes as STREET — the next section explains why.

The first Grand Prix is the year the circuit first hosted a round of the World Championship. Lengths are from f1db, as on the circuit pages; for Madring, Formula 1 gives 5.414 km on its event page. As of 29 September 2026, Singapore and Las Vegas are still to come — dates and session times are in the season calendar.

The Jeddah Corniche Circuit, the street circuit of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix from 2021 to 2025, is not on the 2026 calendar.

What counts as a street circuit?

The Formula 1 regulations have no such term as “street circuit”. We go by the f1db results database, which divides circuits into three types: RACE (a purpose-built circuit), ROAD (a road course) and STREET (a street circuit). In this article, a street circuit is one of the STREET type.

The one term covers very different places. This is how Formula 1 itself describes them:

• Monaco and Baku — narrow streets: in Baku the lap runs into the old town, past its medieval walls;
• Albert Park — a temporary circuit on the roads around Melbourne’s Albert Park, cutting through a stadium car park;
• Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve — the roads of Notre Dame Island, a man-made island in the middle of the St Lawrence River;
• Miami — a temporary circuit around the Hard Rock Stadium, designed to feel like a permanent one;
• Madring — both public roads and private land;
• Las Vegas — streets in the city centre, past famous hotels.

How is a street circuit different from a permanent track?

First, the price of a mistake. Formula 1 says of Baku that, as in Monaco, the tight streets punish the slightest slip quickly and harshly.

Second, the surface. A temporary circuit is made of ordinary roads: Albert Park, as Formula 1 describes it, is bumpy, and slippery at the start of the weekend.

Third, overtaking. On Monaco’s narrow streets, according to Formula 1, it is harder to pass.

The race rules are the same on a street circuit, but for Monaco the regulations change the distance: there it has to exceed 260 km instead of the usual 305. How that comes to 78 laps is explained in the race duration article.

Monaco: the oldest and the shortest

The first race through the streets of the principality was held in 1929, long before the World Championship. The Monaco Grand Prix joined the championship in its very first season: the race on 21 May 1950 was the second round of 1950.

Up to and including 2026, Monaco has hosted 72 championship Grands Prix — more than any other street circuit. There was no race there in 1951–1954 or in 2020.

The Monaco lap is 3.337 km, the shortest on the 2026 calendar. From 1955 to 1972 it was even shorter, 3.145 km: no lap in championship history has been shorter than that.

New street circuits

After Melbourne in 1996, no new street circuit joined the championship until 2008. Since then there have been seven:

• Valencia, 2008. The European Grand Prix was held here until 2012.
• Marina Bay, 2008. The Singapore Grand Prix was the first night race in Formula 1 history.
• Baku, 2016. The first race here was called the European Grand Prix; since 2017 it has been the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. The lap is 6.003 km, with a long straight along the seafront.
• Jeddah, 2021. The Saudi Arabian Grand Prix was held here five times, up to 2025.
• Miami, 2022. A circuit around the stadium in Miami Gardens.
• Las Vegas, 2023. The race is held on Saturday evening under floodlights.
• Madring, 2026. The first Grand Prix took place on 13 September 2026. The La Monumental bend is about half a kilometre long and banked at 24%: according to Formula 1, it is the longest banked corner on the calendar.

Street circuits of the past

Of the championship’s 20 street circuits, 12 are no longer on the calendar. Seven of the 20 are in the United States and four in Spain.

Adelaide hosted the Australian Grand Prix 11 times in a row, and since 1996 the race has been held in Melbourne — also on a street circuit.

Street circuit records

Lengths are for the layout used that year, from f1db. Which circuits are the longest, shortest and fastest of all, not just among street circuits, is covered in a separate article. For each circuit’s map, corners and winners, see its page in the Circuits section.