Venue
1 Republic Boulevard, Marina Centre, Singapore 038975
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Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix guide
Formula 1's original night race.
In short
The Singapore Grand Prix is usually held on a weekend in late September or early October on the streets of the colonial quarter. It was the first Formula 1 race run at night, and drivers rate it among the toughest, with heat, humidity and close walls. It suits motorsport fans; book rooms and tickets well ahead.
Singapore's Grand Prix turns the city's old colonial quarter into a racetrack after dark. It is a street race in the strictest sense, run on roads that carry buses and office traffic the rest of the year, and it was the first Formula 1 race ever held at night. Nowhere else on the calendar looks like it.
Drivers rate it among the toughest races of the season. The tropical air stays hot and heavy after dark, the walls sit close, and a long race leaves little room to recover from a mistake. For spectators it is a city break and a motor race at once: by day the museums and hawker centres, by night the track.
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Key Facts & Stats:
Ends: Sunday, 10 October 2027
Where: Singapore City, Singapore
Venue: Marina Bay Street Circuit
Held: Every year
Type of event: Sporting Events, Live Events, Musical Events
Currency: Singapore dollar (SGD, S$)
Time zone: Singapore Standard Time, UTC+8
Language: English, Malay, Mandarin, Tamil
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Close to the venue
- Gardens by the Bay Attraction · 1.1 km
- Marina Bay Sands Hotel · 970 m
- Raffles Singapore Hotel · 1.1 km
- PARKROYAL COLLECTION Pickering Hotel · 2 km
- Oasia Hotel Downtown Hotel · 2.8 km
Getting around
Hotels near the venue fill up around the event dates.
Clothing for hot, humid nights
Sunset brings no real relief. The evenings stay hot and humid, and short tropical downpours roll over the bay without much warning.
- Clothes
- loose, light fabric and a spare shirt in your bag. Cotton dries slowly after a soaking; sports fabrics cope better.
- Rain
- a light poncho. Umbrellas block the view for the row behind and are awkward on a packed grandstand.
- Ears
- foam earplugs or proper ear defenders, especially for children. A street circuit lined with buildings is louder than an open track.
- Feet
- trainers you can walk in all evening. Gates, stages and seats are spread far apart.
- Water
- drink steadily from the late afternoon on, not just when you feel thirsty.
Moving around the circuit park
The crowd moves in waves: towards the grandstands before each session, towards the stages afterwards, and towards the stations at the end of the night. Working against those waves is where the evening gets tiring.
- Check which gate and zone your ticket names before you set out, and enter by that gate. Crossing between zones is not always possible inside.
- Be in your seat well before the cars come out. Walkways and bridges jam in the last half hour.
- Agree a meeting point with your group in case phones die or the network slows under the crowd.
- For the concerts, decide whether the music or the race matters more to you. A good grandstand seat and the front of a stage rarely go together.
- Leave a buffer before the last trains. The stations near the circuit fill fast once the music ends.
What happens on the day
- From the Wednesday
Roads close
In 2026 Marina Centre and the streets by the Padang closed from 00:01 on the Wednesday until 05:30 the Tuesday after the race, with buses diverted for almost a week.
- Friday
Practice
- Saturday
Qualifying
- Sunday evening
The Grand Prix
62 laps under the floodlights.
- After the track sessions
Concerts
Included in the ticket on stages inside the circuit. Eat inside the zone and wait out the first rush for the trains.
Choosing a ticket zone, grandstand and hotel
Start with the zone map, not the price list. Every ticket is tied to a zone, and the zone decides which grandstands, walkways and concert stages you can reach once you are through the gate. A cheap walkabout pass can leave you behind fences for the headline set you came for. Tickets are sold through the official Formula 1 ticketing site, and in 2026 the entry level began at about S$228, with grandstand seats and three-day passes costing more.
Grandstands with a view of the start or the water go first, often many months out. Buy as soon as you know your dates, and treat any early-bird offer as the best price you will see.
The Marina Bay street circuit and its history
Singapore has raced cars since 1966, when a Formula Libre event used Thomson Road, but the modern story begins in 2008. That year Formula 1 came to Marina Bay and ran the first night race in its history. Sebastian Vettel later made the place his own, with five wins here.
The lap reads like a walking tour of the colonial core. Leaving the pit lane by the Singapore Flyer on Republic Boulevard, the cars brake from about 308 km/h into Turn 1, Sheares, then hit the quickest stretch of the lap on Raffles Boulevard. Turn 7, Memorial, is one of the heaviest stops. The track then swings onto Nicoll Highway, past the Padang and City Hall along St Andrew's Road, over Anderson Bridge and into the tight Turn 13 hairpin in front of the Fullerton Hotel. Esplanade Drive and Merlion Park follow before the long run down Raffles Avenue.
Where the passing happens: four DRS zones: the start-finish straight, Raffles Boulevard, the Esplanade Bridge and the newer straight on Raffles Avenue. Seats facing any of the big braking points see the most action. About 1,600 purpose-built floodlights do the rest, angled so that neither drivers nor cameras are dazzled.
Getting there
Before you fly
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From Changi
Changi Airport is about 24 km east. The airport shuttle train runs to Tanah Merah every 6 to 9 minutes; change to the East-West Line for City Hall. The last airport train leaves at 12:06am.
To the circuit
City Hall (North-South and East-West lines) brings you out by the Padang; Esplanade (Circle Line) surfaces at Raffles Boulevard; Promenade (Circle and Downtown lines) is the stop for the pit-building side. Check which gate your ticket names first.
Getting home
In 2026 the last trains left City Hall at 00:30 after Friday and Saturday and 00:45 on race night. Taxis picked up near the circuit added S$8 between 21:30 and midnight.
Where to stay during the festival
Rooms facing the bay climb steeply on race weekend. A cheaper plan is a hotel a few train stops away, with a short ride in.
Choose somewhere you can walk back to from a station after midnight.
Singapore
Raffles Singapore5-star hotel
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- Free WiFi
- Swimming pool
- Parking
3 Rooms available
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Marina Bay Sands5-star hotel
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from$600.00/ night
- Internet – Wifi
- Airport shuttle
- Swimming pool
6 Rooms available
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Shangri-La Rasa Sentosa, Singapore5-star hotel
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from$310.00/ night
- Internet – Wifi
- Swimming pool
- Parking
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Oasia Hotel Downtown4-star hotel
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from$196.00/ night
- Internet – Wifi
- Swimming pool
- Parking
4 Rooms available
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PARKROYAL COLLECTION Pickering5-star hotel
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from$309.00/ night
- Internet – Wifi
- Swimming pool
- Car park
4 Rooms available
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Weather and what to pack
October in Singapore is hot and humid at any hour: average highs are about 32°C, nights stay around 25°C, and the month brings roughly 170 mm of rain, often in evening thunderstorms. Night sessions are only slightly cooler than the day.
Worth packing
- A light rain poncho (umbrellas are unwelcome in grandstands)
- Earplugs
- A portable fan or cooling towel
- Comfortable shoes for long walkways
Car hire in Singapore City
Airport transfer to Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix
Met at arrivals at Singapore Changi Airport (SIN) and driven door to door to Marina Bay Street Circuit.
- Singapore Changi Airport (SIN) → Marina Bay Street Circuit
- 20 km · 25 min
Restaurants and food in Singapore
Places to eat in Singapore before or after the celebrations.
JUMBO Seafood (Riverside Point)
#01-01 Riverside Point, 30 Merchant Road, Singapore 058282
Cuisine:SeafoodSingaporean
- Dine-in
Burnt Ends
#01-02, 7 Dempsey Road, Singapore 249671
Cuisine:BarbecueWood-fire grill
- Dine-in
- Bar
- Counter seating
Hill Street Tai Hwa Pork Noodle
Blk 466 Crawford Lane, #01-12, Singapore 190466
Cuisine:HawkerBak chor mee
- Dine-in
- Takeaway
Odette
#01-04 National Gallery Singapore, 1 St. Andrew's Road, Singapore 178957
Cuisine:Modern FrenchTasting menu
- Dine-in
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
General
Max Verstappen, driving for Red Bull, won from pole position. Charles Leclerc finished second for Ferrari and also set the fastest lap, with Kimi Antonelli third for Mercedes.
No. Singapore hosted its first sprint in 2026 but is not on the sprint list for 2027, so the weekend goes back to practice, qualifying and a single Grand Prix.
The cars stopped crossing The Float at Marina Bay in 2023. A straight along Raffles Avenue took its place, which removed a run of slow corners and created another overtaking zone.
Sebastian Vettel, with five wins. Lewis Hamilton is next on the list with four, the most recent of them in 2018.
On the current layout, Lewis Hamilton set the race lap record of 1:33.808 in a Ferrari in 2025. The fastest qualifying lap belongs to George Russell from the same weekend.
Goo Goo Dolls and Mark Ronson headlined the Wharf Stage on the Saturday and Sunday. DJ Snake, Split Enz, Major Lazer Soundsystem, ZHU, Flight Facilities, Rev Run and TOKiMONSTA were also on the bill. The 2027 acts had not been named by mid-October 2026.
A waterfront stage added in 2026, covering roughly 2,891 square metres. It came with an upgraded entertainment area in Zone 1.
Timing & weather
The current layout measures 4.927 km with 19 corners. It has been that length since the old floating platform section was replaced.
A race was first organised in 1961 as the Orient Year Grand Prix, and from 1966 a Formula Libre event ran on Thomson Road. The Formula 1 night race at Marina Bay dates from 2008.
Getting there
62 laps, which comes to a little over 305 km. The lap is slow and twisting, so the race is a long evening for drivers and spectators alike.
What's included
No, every race ticket includes the music. What changes is access: the stages you can reach depend on your zone, so look up where your favourite act is playing before you buy.