The LA 2028 Olympics: Everything You Need to Know

The Olympics run from July 14 to July 30, 2028: seventeen days of competition. These are the Summer Games, so the dates sit in the middle of a Los Angeles summer, which is dry and hot inland and noticeably cooler on the coast.

The Paralympics follow from August 15 to August 27, 2028. That is a gap of just over two weeks between the two, which matters if you were hoping to see both on one trip: it is two trips, or a long stay.

The host city is Los Angeles, and the venues reach well beyond it. Events are planned for Long Beach, Inglewood, Carson, Anaheim, Pasadena, the San Fernando Valley and the coast south of the city, where surfing is at Lower Trestles near San Clemente.

The areas below are the way to think about a trip: each one holds several venues within walking distance of each other, and each one is reached by a different line. Soccer preliminaries also use stadiums outside the region, in San Diego, San Jose and elsewhere, so a soccer ticket is the one that may not be a Los Angeles trip at all.

The core Olympic program, and five sports added for 2028:

Squash is the only one that has never been at an Olympics before. Coastal rowing is often listed as a sixth and should not be: it is a new beach sprint event within rowing, not one of the five new sports.

Mixed-gender team events have been added in several sports too, though the final list is not confirmed here.

You will not be able to drive to a venue. The plan leans on Metro rail and a large temporary bus fleet, and transit is expected to be bundled with event tickets, though that part is not confirmed. For most visitors it is the biggest single difference from any other trip to Los Angeles.

The lines, the stations and the areas they reach are in the LA 2028 car-free transit guide, and every venue's own transit line is on the LA 2028 venue guide.

Our full LAX transport guide is being written. The short version for now: the airport's people mover is set to connect the terminals to the Metro network and had not opened as of late 2025, free shuttle buses run between the terminals and the LAX/Metro Transit Center about every ten minutes until it does, and the K Line reaches Inglewood from there, which is the closest venue area to the airport.

With no driving, a bed two stops from your venue and one that needs two transfers are an hour a day apart, each way, in crowds. So stay near a Metro line, or in the area most of your events are in.

Our area-by-area guide is being written. In the meantime every venue on the LA 2028 venue guide names the area to look in, so you can work back from the events you have tickets for.

Tickets are sold in phases through the official LA28 site. Registration for the ticket draw opened in January 2026, a global sales phase followed later that year with a second release after it, and first-come, first-served sales are expected to open in 2027. Which phase is open on the day you read this is the part to check at the source rather than here, because a stale phase is worse than none.

We do not sell tickets and we are not an agent for anybody who does. If a page offers you LA 2028 tickets and it is not LA28's own site or a reseller LA28 names, treat it with suspicion.

No new permanent stadium, and no purpose-built village: the arenas are buildings the city already uses every week, and the athletes village is at UCLA in Westwood.

So the work that is actually new is transport. Metro is extending the network on a timetable set partly by the Games, and the car-free goal is the plan's biggest commitment to the public. Whether it is met is the thing to watch, and it is why the transit guide here is the page we expect to update most.