World Aquatics, in collaboration with the Singapore Organising Committee, has unveiled the competition schedule for 2025 World Aquatics Championships in Singapore.
Set to take place from July 11 to August 3, 2025, the event will feature an impressive 75 medal events across six aquatic disciplines: swimming, diving, water polo, artistic swimming, open water swimming, and high diving. Over 2,500 athletes from 210 national federations are expected to compete, making it one of the most anticipated events in aquatic sports.
Competition will begin on July 11 with the opening rounds of water polo, which will continue through July 24, concluding with the men’s and women’s gold medal matches. Open water swimming will follow shortly after, running from July 15 to July 20. Artistic swimming will kick off on July 18, with events wrapping up on July 25.High diving is set to take place from July 24 to July 27, overlapping with the start of diving events, which run from July 26 to August 3.
Swimming will close the 2025 World Championships in Singapore with an eight-day competition from July 27 to August 3, culminating in medal-only finals before the Closing Ceremony. Spanning 24 days, this edition is notably longer than the typical 16–17 day format of recent editions, including Budapest (2022), Fukuoka (2023), and Doha (2024). However, Singapore will continue the recent trend, established in 2023, of scheduling swimming in the final week of competition. The full swimming schedule can be found here.
2025 World Aquatics Championships – Event Schedule & Venues
| Sport | Venue | Dates |
| Water Polo | OCBC Aquatic Centre, Singapore Sports Hub | July 11–24, 2025 |
| Open Water Swimming | Palawan Beach, Sentosa | July 15–20, 2025 |
| Artistic Swimming | World Aquatics Championships Arena, Singapore Sports Hub | July 18–25, 2025 |
| High Diving | Palawan Green, Sentosa | July 24–27, 2025 |
| Diving | OCBC Aquatic Centre, Singapore Sports Hub | July 26–August 3, 2025 |
| Swimming | World Aquatics Championships Arena, Singapore Sports Hub | July 27–August 3, 2025 |
Notably, this will be the first time Singapore will host the World Aquatics Championships for the first time, marking a key milestone for the nation. As the third consecutive edition held in Asia, following Fukuoka in 2023 and Doha in 2024, the Singapore 2025 World Championships will build on the region’s growing prominence in aquatic sports.
I congratulate them in making this longer than 1/2 weeks. The host nation needs to recoup it’s investment in hosting such an important event and the athletes are not 1/2 day affairs per say. Let them shine. Stop trying to make these world championship into 1/2/3 day affair.
Going back to the early 90’s, the Long Course Worlds was 11 days, so a little under 2 weeks, but things were different, a lot fewer participants (1100 vs 2600), fewer events, syncro had 3 vs 10 events, Diving had 6 vs 14, Open water 2 vs 7 events, Swimming had NO semifinals and only 32 events instead of 42 events while water polo had 2 events but a lot more teams.
In the 1980’s there were even fewer events/sports.
I wil came back to swimming call back
Do I see two mixed relays or do I need more coffee?
Mixed 400 free and mixed 400 medley is the norm at the World Championships.
Terrible terrible news for Marchand. Semifinals and finals for 200 IM/BR/Fly all overlapped with one another back to back. Whoever came up with this schedule is the literal definition of an id**t.
The only path forward I see for him is to drop the 200 IM
I dont think they’re back to back, the order on the website rn won’t be the actual order of events.
E.g. the Womens 4×1 Free relay is shown to be happening in the middle of both sessions on day 1 when it should be alongside the Men’s relay right at the end of both day 1 sessions.
I’d be very surprised if Marchand’s events were literally back to back like its shown right now, he still could do all 3.
This will be awesome.
And I can’t wait until the World Championships return to North America!
oh yeah Marchand, Milak, Summer, Crooks, Gretchen… fully tapered
and relays (4*200 or 100 fr men).
Expecting many wrs.
South and Central America has hosted more World Championship in Aquatics (Swimming) than North America.