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When Will 2023 World Aquatics Championships Sessions Begin In My Time Zone?

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)

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Patricia Clinker
1 year ago

Where do I find a list of events with times listed?

Southerly Buster
1 year ago

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.

Troyy
Reply to  Southerly Buster
1 year ago

They listed the Australian timezone that matters.

Personal Best
Reply to  Troyy
1 year ago

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.

Southerly Buster
Reply to  Personal Best
1 year ago

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). 🙂

Paul Thomas
1 year ago

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.

Last edited 1 year ago by Paul Thomas
Oceanian
1 year ago

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…

Chris
Reply to  Oceanian
1 year ago

so what is it streamed on? Peacock?

Chris
1 year ago

will this be live on youtube?

jeff
Reply to  Chris
1 year ago

It will not

Troyy
Reply to  Chris
1 year ago

No

Ceccon - Kamminga - Milak - Popovici
Reply to  Chris
1 year ago

Swimming World championship and Olympics races are never live on YT

swimfan
Reply to  Braden Keith
1 year ago

dates would be nice too

Swimpop
1 year ago

Phoenix is still part of AZ and as such, does not bother changing clocks and should be Pacific with the rest of AZ.

Hooked on Chlorine
1 year ago

Most useful post of the year!

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