The pool swimming portion of the 2023 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan will see a return to fairly-normal session start times. Locally, prelims will start at 10:30 AM, and finals will start at 8:00 PM.
But what does that mean for where you live? Whether you’re in Brisbane, New York, London, Los Angeles, or anywhere else around the world, we’ve got you covered.
The chart below shows the session start times in different time zones around the world. While it doesn’t cover all of the partial-hour time zones (Adelaied, we’re looking at you), we have attempted to give most of the world’s swim fans a familiar-enough city to peg their local calculations off.
The meet runs from July 23-July 30 local dates, but starts in the evening of July 22 in the western hemisphere.
If you’re still not sure, just ask in the comments.
Past World Championship Local Schedules:
- 2023 – 10:30 Heats/20:00 Finals (9.5 hours gap)
- 2022 – 9:00 Heats/18:00 Finals (9 hours gap)
- 2019 – 10:00 Heats/20:00 Finals (10 hours gap)
- 2017 – 9:30 Heats/17:30 Finals (8 hours gap)
- 2015 – 9:30 Heats/17:30 Finals (8 hours gap)
- 2013 – 10:00 Heats/18:00 Finals (8 hours gap)
Time Zones Table
| Major Geographies | Time Zone | Prelims Start Time (24h) |
Finals Start Time (24h)
|
| Honolulu | UTC-10 | 15:30 (Day Prior) | 2:00 |
| Anchorage, Juneau | UTC-8 | 17:30 (Day Prior) | 3:00 |
| Los Angeles/Seattle/Phoenix (US Pacific Time), Arizona (does not observe DST), Vancouver, Tijuana, | UTC-7 | 18:30 (Day Prior) | 4:00 |
| Denver/SLC (US Mountain Time), Edmonton, Juarez | UTC-6 | 19:30 (Day Prior) | 5:00 |
| Chicago/Houston/Dallas (US Central Time), Winnipeg, Mexico City, Lima, | UTC-5 | 20:30 (Day Prior) | 6:00 |
| New York (US Eastern Time), Toronto, Puerto Rico, La Paz, Barbados, Havana, Nassau | UTC-4 | 21:30 (Day Prior) | 7:00 |
| Sao Paulo, Rio, Buenos Aires, Recife, Paramaribo, Montevideo, French Guiana, Bahia, Belem, Cordoba, Bermuda, St. Lucia, St. Thomas, St. Kitts, | UTC-3 | 22:30 (Day Prior) | 8:00 |
| Sandwich Islands | UTC-2 | 23:30 (Day Prior) | 9:00 |
| Cape Verde, Azores | UTC-1 | 0:30 | 10:00 |
| Canary Islands, Casablanca, Monrovia, Western Africa | UTC+0 | 1:30 | 11:00 |
| London, Lisbon, Dublin, Tunis, Lagos, Brazzaville, Algiers, Faroe Islands | UTC+1 | 2:30 | 12:00 |
| Stockholm, Sarajevo, Rome, Prague, Paris, Oslo, Madrid, Copenhagen, Budapest, Belgium, Berlin, Belgrade, Amsterdam, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Pretoria, Johannesburg, Harare, Zurich, Croatia, Poland, Austria, Vatican City | UTC+2 | 3:30 | 13:00 |
| Istanbul, Doha, Bucharest, Nairobi, Helsinki, Kyiv, Tallinn, Vilnius, Riga, Sofia, Athens, Cairo, Dar-Es-Salaam, Addis Abba, Kuwait, Sevastopol, Volgograd, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Kazan, Minsk, Iraq, Jordan, Yemen, Israel, Palestine, | UTC+3 | 4:30 | 14:00 |
| Dubai, Tbilsi, Muscat, Baku, Reunion | UTC+4 | 5:30 | 15:00 |
| Mumbai, Delhi, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Yekaterinburg, Uzbekistan, Karachi | UTC+5 | 6:30 | 16:00 |
| Almaty, Bangladesh, Kyrgyzstan | UTC+6 | 7:30 | 17:00 |
| Jakarta, Bangkok, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos | UTC+7 | 8:30 | 18:00 |
| Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzehen, Gunagzhou, Chengdu, Manila, Macau, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Baruun-Urt | UTC+8 | 9:30 | 19:00 |
| Fukuoka, Seoul, Tokyo | UTC+9 | 10:30 | 20:00 |
| Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, Guam | UTC+10 | 11:30 | 21:00 |
| PNG, Bougainville, Norfolk Island, New Caledonia | UTC+11 | 12:30 | 22:00 |
| New Zealand, Fiji, Tuvalu, Marshall Islands, Nauru | UTC+12 | 13:30 | 23:00 |
| Samoa, Tonga, Kiribati | UTC+13 | 14:30 |
0:00 (Midnight)
|
Where do I find a list of events with times listed?
Perth and Adelaide are not mentioned. Adelaide is half an hour behind Sydney (i.e. UTC+9:30). Perth is 2 hours behind the East Coast (UTC+8) so 9.30am prelims and 7pm finals.
They listed the Australian timezone that matters.
Yeah… I think most people in Perth and Adelaide are used to working out how far behind Sydney they are (both in time zone and decade).
Kidding folks… kidding.
I was surprised Adelaide didn’t get a mention because so many people on Swim Swam seem obsessed about the length of the Adelaide pool. Adelaide, home of the world’s premier 49 metre pool (supposedly). 🙂
Thanks! Now I will know when to catch it on my coconut radio in my shack on Bougainville… will definitely be inviting the three 100-year-old Japanese holdouts living next door to swing by for a glass of kava.
10 minutes after heats or finals start and people join the live recap thread saying ‘where can I watch this?’
Prepare NOW guys – don’t wait until Day One…
so what is it streamed on? Peacock?
will this be live on youtube?
It will not
No
Swimming World championship and Olympics races are never live on YT
Fixed time zones, sorry for the error.
dates would be nice too
Phoenix is still part of AZ and as such, does not bother changing clocks and should be Pacific with the rest of AZ.
Most useful post of the year!