A short circuit on an island in the St Lawrence, a city that shuts its roads around it, and a calendar slot that has just moved
The Canadian Grand Prix is held at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal, on Notre Dame Island in Parc Jean-Drapeau, an island in the St Lawrence River developed for Expo 67. The race has been in Montreal since 1978. The current contract runs until 2035.
The circuit is short and fast, at 4.361 km with 14 turns, and its final chicane leads onto the famous Wall of Champions. The city is the other half of the experience.
The Canadian Grand Prix 2026 was held on 24 May 2026, on the weekend of 22-24 May. It was a sprint weekend, the first time the Canadian Grand Prix had featured that format, and Kimi Antonelli won for Mercedes. It also marked a move from the traditional June slot to May. The reported attendance for the weekend was 360,000.
For 2027 the Canadian Grand Prix is scheduled for 21-23 May and is again a sprint weekend, according to the published Formula 1 calendar. It follows the Miami Grand Prix in early May, and precedes Monaco in early June. Those Canadian Grand Prix dates make late spring unusually full for the Grand Prix calendar.
Canadian Grand Prix tickets are sold by the organiser and the Formula 1 hospitality programme, and we do not resell them. The more useful decision is where you will sit and what surrounds the seat.
Hospitality in Formula 1 generally ranges from the Paddock Club, operated by Formula 1 itself, to circuit-specific suites and lounges. Our F1 VIP hospitality guide explains the types. For Montreal, categories and availability are set by the organisers each year. For 2027, the official Formula 1 hospitality page opens a waitlist, with full package details to follow.
The circuit is on an island, so access matters. Roads and public transport nearby are heavily used on race days, and it pays to plan the route in and the route out before the weekend. The city itself, though, is an advantage: the hotels, restaurants, and evening life are close, and a race weekend in Montreal is quite different from one at an out-of-town circuit.
Sprint weekends compress the programme. With a sprint on Saturday, there is less spare time on Friday and Saturday, and the schedule suits a guest who wants to commit to the whole weekend.
Tell us which days matter and we will arrange the weekend around them
We confirm the access that suits the weekend, place you in the city close to the island, plan transfers around the road closures, and secure the evenings through our fine dining and nightlife service. If the Grand Prix is part of a business programme, our business concierge team looks after the schedule. The same approach applies at every race on the calendar, as our F1 VIP hospitality page explains.
It is scheduled for 21-23 May 2027 at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal, as a sprint weekend
The race was held on 24 May 2026, during a weekend that ran from 22 to 24 May. Kimi Antonelli won for Mercedes
They are sold by the organiser and the Formula 1 hospitality programme in several categories. We do not resell tickets; we arrange the access and the weekend around them
At the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve on Notre Dame Island in Montreal, Quebec
It is the outside wall at the exit of the final chicane, it got its nickname after Damon Hill, Michael Schumacher, and Jacques Villeneuve all crashed into it in 1999
