The 2027 MotoGP calendar features 22 Grands Prix across five continents: the season opens on March 7 in Buriram, Thailand, and closes on November 28 in Valencia. There are two headline changes, the debut of the Adelaide street circuit, which takes over from Phillip Island as home of the Australian GP, and Argentina’s return to Buenos Aires, where the World Championship has not raced since 1999. Hungary drops off the schedule. Below you will find every date and a reading of what this calendar tells anyone investing in MotoGP.

The full 2027 MotoGP calendar

* Subject to homologation. Provisional calendar published by the FIM and MotoGP on September 25, 2026.

What’s new in the 2027 calendar

Adelaide, a Grand Prix in the city

On November 14, MotoGP will race for the first time on the Adelaide Street Circuit, a city layout redrawn on the streets that hosted Formula 1 from 1985 to 1995. The agreement with the South Australian Government and the City of Adelaide, announced on February 19, 2026, covers six editions, up to and including 2032, and closes an era: Phillip Island had been the home of the Australian Grand Prix, almost without interruption, since 1997. MotoGP presents it as the first Grand Prix of the modern era to be held in a city centre. Like the Argentine round, the race remains subject to homologation.

Buenos Aires, Argentina’s return

On April 11, Argentina comes back to the calendar after a one-year absence, but at a new address. No longer Termas de Río Hondo, which hosted the last edition in 2025, but the Autódromo Oscar y Juan Gálvez in Buenos Aires, under full renovation since January 2026 (track, pit boxes, paddock, run-off areas) to meet international standards. The last time the World Championship raced there was 1999.

Who drops out and who moves

Balaton Park, in Hungary, leaves the calendar after just two seasons: Buenos Aires effectively takes its slot, and the number of Grands Prix holds steady at 22. Qatar, postponed to November in 2026 because of the conflict in the Middle East, returns to the start of the season as round two, while Austria moves back to August, two weeks after Silverstone.

The bracket calendar: how the season is built

Seen from above, the 2027 calendar has a very precise shape, and it deserves a name. We call this architecture the “bracket calendar”: the season opens and closes outside Europe, and between the two brackets sits the European core of the championship.

The first bracket, between March and April, lines up five races outside Europe: Thailand, Qatar, Brazil, Argentina and the United States. Then, from May 9 at Jerez to October 3 at Portimão, come twelve consecutive Grands Prix in Europe, interrupted only by a summer break of almost a month between Brno (July 18) and Silverstone (August 15). Finally, the second bracket: Motegi, Sepang and Mandalika on three consecutive weekends (the only triple-header of the season), followed by Adelaide. Valencia, as tradition has it, settles the accounts. The final tally is 13 European Grands Prix out of 22, four of them in Spain.

The central block is the part that does not move. This is where MotoGP keeps its cathedrals, Mugello, Assen, Jerez, the Sachsenring, its largest crowds and its most mature hospitality ecosystem: in 2025 Le Mans welcomed 311,797 spectators, the highest figure in MotoGP history, in a season that passed 3.6 million attendees overall. Change, however, does not happen at the centre. It happens at the edges.

Latin America: the April window

Brazil and Argentina race on consecutive weekends, April 4 and 11, and two weeks later comes Austin: three Grands Prix in the Americas in three weeks. On closer inspection, the window opens even earlier, because on February 21, 2027 the official season launch will take place in Rio de Janeiro, on Botafogo beach.

Brazil marked its return in 2026, after twenty-two years away, with almost 150,000 spectators in Goiânia; and the country now has a face to tell its story, that of Diogo Moreira, 2025 Moto2 world champion (the first Brazilian world champion in the history of Grand Prix motorcycle racing) and now in MotoGP with LCR Honda. We covered this at greater length when writing about MotoGP and South America. For a brand looking at that market, April 2027 is in effect a small continental season, compressed into a few weeks and with a storyline already written.

Southeast Asia: where the season begins and where it gets serious

Southeast Asia, by contrast, occupies the two moments of greatest narrative tension on the calendar: the opener on March 7 in Buriram, when everything is still to be written, and the late-October triple-header, when the standings start to carry real weight.

Then there is a detail that the official PDF delivers without any need for comment, a freeze-frame of MotoGP’s commercial geography. All three Southeast Asian circuits carry in their name a brand from the host country: Chang International Circuit (Chang is the beer of Thailand’s ThaiBev group), Petronas Sepang International Circuit (the Malaysian energy company acquired the naming rights in 2023), Pertamina Mandalika International Circuit (the Indonesian energy company has held the name since 2021). It is no coincidence, in short, that it is precisely there that the local brand chooses to buy the name of the venue, rather than just a space inside it: in those markets MotoGP belongs to popular culture, and the association works as national positioning even before it works as television exposure.

The numbers explain why. According to Indonesia’s Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs, the 2025 Mandalika Grand Prix generated an economic impact of 4.96 trillion rupiah, around 278 million US dollars. The same gesture, for that matter, can be found in Europe too: since April 2026 the Brno circuit has been called CREDITAS Autodrom Brno, after the Czech financial group, already main partner of the Grand Prix, took over its ownership.

What it means for MotoGP sponsors

Read through the eyes of a company, the bracket calendar suggests that a MotoGP season is not a single block to buy or to discard, but a sequence of market windows. The European core remains the place of continuity: B2B relationships, a constant presence in front of the historic fan base, hospitality in the MotoGP VIP Village. The brackets are the place of growth: whoever targets Latin America has three concentrated weekends in April, whoever looks to Southeast Asia has the March opener and the October triple-header.

Planning activations, content and hospitality around these windows, instead of spreading the budget evenly across twenty-two weekends, is often the difference between an empty sticker and a MotoGP sponsorship that genuinely works. All the more so in a championship that in 2025 reported a global fan base of 632 million people, 12% more than the previous year, and that since July 2025 has been controlled by Liberty Media, already the owner of Formula 1, which acquired 84% of Dorna in a deal worth 4.2 billion euros. The Adelaide street circuit looks very much like a first experiment in the direction set out by Liberty Media’s MotoGP roadmap: bringing the championship into cities, not just alongside them.

One question remains, and the 2027 calendar leaves it hanging. If the brackets keep widening, and with the United States in its sights that is more than likely, how long will the European core remain the centre of the conversation? For anyone weighing a multi-year sponsorship, it is a question worth asking now, not once the contract is signed.