2024 OLYMPIC GAMES
- Pool Swimming: July 27 – August 4, 2024
- Open Water Swimming: August 8 – 9, 2024
- La Défense Arena — Paris, France
- LCM (50 meters)
- Meet Central
- Full Schedule
- SwimSwam Preview Index
For viewers in the Western hemisphere, keeping up with preliminary sessions at the 2024 Olympics will be a tough task as the heats will begin at 5:00 am Eastern Time (ET) and 2:00 am Pacific (PT).
For those in Australia and Asia, they’ll need to get up real early (or stay up really late) to watch finals live.
Curious when the sessions will start where you are?
Below, find the start times for the prelim and finals sessions in every major city around the globe.
Locally, prelims will begin relatively late, at 11:00 am, and finals will be live at 8:30 pm.
PARIS 2024 SWIMMING – START TIMES BY MAJOR CITY
| Prelims Start Time | Major Cities | Finals Start Time |
| 11:00 AM | Paris (Host), Zurch, Milan, Brussels, Berlin, Budapest, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Vienna, Warsaw, Oslo, Rome, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Johannesburg, Cairo | 8:30 PM |
| 12:00 PM | Tallinn, Tel Aviv, Kyiv, Sofia, Istanbul, Bucharest, Vilnius, Beirut, Doha | 9:30 PM |
| 1:00 PM | Moscow, Dubai. Baku, St. Petersburg, Kazan | 10:30 PM |
| 2:30 PM | New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Islamabad | 12:00 AM |
| 4:00 PM | Jakarta, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh, Bangkok | 1:30 AM |
| 5:00 PM | Beijing, Taipei, Kowloon, Shanghai, Perth, Canton, Manila, Kuala Lumpur | 2:30 AM |
| 6:00 PM | Tokyo, Seoul, Osaka, Incheon, Kyoto, Pyongyang, Kobe | 3:30 AM |
| 7:00 PM | Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra, Guam | 4:30 AM |
| 9:00 PM | Wellington, Christchurch, Auckland | 6:30 AM |
| 10:00 PM | Pago Pago | 7:30 AM |
| 11:00 PM | Honolulu | 8:30 AM |
| 12:00 AM | Gambier Islands | 9:30 AM |
| 1:00 AM | Juneau, Anchorage, Fairbanks | 10:30 AM |
| 2:00 AM | Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Las Vegas, Vancouver | 11:30 AM |
| 3:00 AM | Denver, Salt Lake City, Calgary, Edmonton, Galapagos Islands | 12:30 PM |
| 4:00 AM | Chicago, Houston, Mexico City, Guadalajara, Dallas, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Omaha, Medellin | 1:30 PM |
| 5:00 AM | New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Miami, Louisville, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal | 2:30 PM |
| 6:00 AM | Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Brasilia | 3:30 PM |
| 7:00 AM | Nuuk, Greenland | 4:30 PM |
| 8:00 AM | Praia, Cape Verde | 5:30 PM |
| 9:00 AM | Reykjavik | 6:30 PM |
| 10:00 AM | Edinburgh, Dublin, Glasgow, Casablanca, Tripoli, London, Lisbon | 7:30 PM |
SWIMMING SCHEDULE
The revamped nine-day schedule for pool swimming in Paris can be found below:
| HEATS | FINALS |
| Saturday, July 27 | Saturday, July 27 |
| Women’s 100 Butterfly | Women’s 100 Butterfly Semi |
| Women’s 400 Freestyle | Men’s 400 Freestyle Final |
| Men’s 100 Breaststroke | Women’s 400 Freestyle Final |
| Men’s 400 Freestyle | Men’s 100 Breaststroke Semi |
| Women’s 4×100 Freestyle Relay | Women’s 4×100 Freestyle Relay Final |
| Men’s 4×100 Freestyle Relay | Men’s 4×100 Freestyle Relay Final |
| Sunday, July 28 | Sunday, July 28 |
| Men’s 200 Freestyle | Men’s 400 IM Final |
| Men’s 400 IM | Women’s 100 Butterfly Final |
| Women’s 100 Breaststroke | Men’s 200 Freestyle Semi |
| Men’s 100 Backstroke | Women’s 100 Breaststroke Semi |
| Women’s 200 Freestyle | Men’s 100 Backstroke Semi |
| Men’s 100 Breaststroke Final | |
| Women’s 200 Freestyle Semi | |
| Monday, July 29 | Monday, July 29 |
| Women’s 400 IM | Women’s 400 IM Finak |
| Womens’ 100 Backstroke | Men’s 200 Freestyle Final |
| Men’s 800 Freestyle | Women’s 100 Backstroke Semi |
| Men’s 100 Backstroke Final | |
| Women’s 100 Breaststroke Final | |
| Women’s 200 Freestyle Final | |
| Tuesday, July 30 | Tuesday, July 30 |
| Men’s 200 Butterfly | Men’s 100 Freestyle Semi |
| Men’s 100 Freestyle | Men’s 200 Butterfly Semi |
| Women’s 1500 Freestyle | Women’s 100 Backstroke Final |
| Women’s 100 Freestyle | Men’s 800 Freestyle Final |
| Men’s 200 Breaststroke | Women’s 100 Freestyle Semi |
| Men’s 4×200 Freestyle Relay | Men’s 200 Breaststroke Semi |
| Men’s 4×200 Freestyle Relay Final | |
| Wednesday, July 31 | Wednesday, July 31 |
| Women’s 200 Breaststroke | Women’s 100 Freestyle Final |
| Men’s 200 Backstroke | Men’s 200 Butterfly Final |
| Women’s 200 Butterfly | Women’s 200 Butterfly Semi |
| Women’s 1500 Freestyle Final | |
| Men’s 200 Backstroke Semi | |
| Women’s 200 Breaststroke Semi | |
| Men’s 200 Breaststroke Final | |
| Men’s 100 Freestyle Final | |
| Thursday, August 1 | Thursday, August 1 |
| Women’s 200 Backstroke | Women’s 200 Butterfly Final |
| Men’s 50 Freestyle | Men’s 200 Backstroke Final |
| Men’s 200 IM | Men’s 50 Freestyle Semi |
| Women’s 4×200 Freestyle Relay | Women’s 200 Breaststroke Final |
| Women’s 200 Backstroke Semi | |
| Men’s 200 IM Semi | |
| Women’s 4×200 Freestyle Relay Final | |
| Friday, August 2 | Friday, August 2 |
| Men’s 100 Butterfly | Men’s 50 Freestyle Final |
| Women’s 200 IM | Women’s 200 Backstroke Final |
| Women’s 800 Freestyle | Men’s 200 IM Final |
| Mixed 4×100 Medley Relay | Men’s 100 Butterfly Semi |
| Women’s 200 IM Semi | |
| Saturday, August 3 | Saturday, August 3 |
| Women’s 50 Freestyle | Men’s 100 Butterfly Final |
| Men’s 1500 Freestyle | Women’s 50 Freestyle Semi |
| Men’s 4×100 Medley Relay | Women’s 200 IM Final |
| Women’s 4×100 Medley Relay | Women’s 800 Freestyle Final |
| Mixed 4×100 Medley Relay Final | |
| Sunday, August 4 | Sunday, August 4 |
| No Session | Women’s 50 Freestyle Final |
| Men’s 1500 Freestyle Final | |
| Men’s 4×100 Medley Relay Final | |
| Women’s 4×100 Medley Relay Final |
Hi….if Peacock is streaming the sessions, will they be available to watch after they are televised live? For example, if unable to watch 2:30pm sessions, will they be available to watch in the evening at 5pm?
Yes I think so. Not 100% sure but I think so.
James, SwimSwam team, do you know if Peacock/NBC, whichever we use, will stream finals sessions live at 2:30 p.m. EST each night? Or will they play at the U.S. equivalent of the finals start times in Paris? Thanks in advance.
I haven’t looked closely, but something will be available live, then they’ll do their prime time summary stuff later.
Thank you!
I’m happy that I’m in the UK and have normal timings, not anything ridiculously early/late
arent you all right next to Paris?
A Eurostar train ride from St Pancras to Gare du Nord, which is how team GB are travelling.
Same here in France !! Yippeeee
Australia and New Zealand lowkey have the best time schedules; can realistically catch both the prelims and finals. All other regions have to miss one or the other based on normal work hours.
tbh getting up at 4.15am here in Melbourne to watch the finals, having little time to go back to sleep, and then have to rock up to a full days work sucks. Much rather sneakily watch either session online at work! Tokyo was lovely lol
Assuming Peacock for prelims and NBC for finals in the USA?
Why they gotta do Seoul dirty like that?! D@mn…. 3:30am….. At least the prelims are practically Prime Time.
0230 AM for me
CRIES 😭😭😭😭😭😭
https://www.nbcolympics.com/schedule/sport/swimming
Swimming is live at 2:30 pm EST every day except last Sunday (12:30).
This also has the prime time schedule (delayed) for NBC, swimming is on at either 8pm or 9pm depending on the day and it’s very confusing.