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The XXXIV Olympic Games come home to Los Angeles from July 14-30, 2028 — three weeks of sport at SoFi Stadium, the LA Memorial Coliseum, and Crypto.com Arena, with no new construction and every cluster on the Metro map.
Los Angeles becomes only the third city — after London and Paris — to stage the Summer Olympics three times, and LA28 does it without building a single new permanent venue. Athletics returns to the Memorial Coliseum, which hosted the Games in 1932 and 1984. Swimming moves into SoFi Stadium, the NFL's most futuristic arena, its floor flooded for temporary pools. Gymnastics lands at Crypto.com Arena in the heart of downtown. Rowing, canoe sprint, and the coastal sports spread across existing venues from Long Beach's Marine Stadium up the coast, with basketball at the brand-new Intuit Dome next door to SoFi in Inglewood.
For travelers, that venue reuse is the whole story. Every session sits inside a metro area you already want to visit, connected by expanded Metro rail service and event shuttles rather than remote purpose-built parks. Tickets are expected to run from roughly $30 for early-round sessions to $3,000 for marquee finals and the opening ceremony at SoFi Stadium. The Games run July 14-30, 2028 — seventeen days in which the world's biggest sports city doubles as its biggest stage.
Do not try to see all seventeen days. The visitors who rave about an Olympics plan a five-to-seven-day slice: one marquee final, a week of cheap preliminary sessions, and afternoons built around the fan zones and the beach. This page tracks the full 2028 calendar — today that means one event bigger than everything else — with the 2027 season runway that carries you to the starting line below it.
The 2028 calendar opens with the largest event in sport: the LA28 Olympic Games across Southern California from July 14-30 — swimming at SoFi Stadium, track and field at the Coliseum, gymnastics at Crypto.com Arena.
The LA 2028 Olympics run July 14-30 at SoFi, the Coliseum and more. Sessions from $30, hotels from $220/night plus Metro itineraries — plan your Games now.
SoFi Stadium & LA Memorial Coliseum — flights $400 – $1,000, hotels from $220/night, tickets $50 – $2,000. Book flights once tickets are confirmed and hotels at least three months out — event weeks sell host cities out early.
The smartest Olympic trip starts a year early. The 2027 season is the last full lap of the sporting calendar before the Games, and its marquee events double as rehearsals at the very venues and cities you will return to in 2028. Watch Super Bowl LXI take over SoFi Stadium in February 2027 — the same building that hosts Olympic swimming sixteen months later — and you will understand how Inglewood moves seventy thousand people on a big night. Follow the Australian Open in January, Roland Garros in May and June, and Wimbledon in July to learn each city's Slam-week rhythms.
The rest of the runway matters too. Monaco in May and Las Vegas in November teach the two extremes of event travel — the intimate harbor circuit and the neon mega-spectacle. The Open at St Andrews and the Ryder Cup in Ireland cover the golf pilgrimages. Treat the full 2027 calendar as your warm-up lap: same cities, same transit systems, same booking windows — at pre-Olympic prices.
The American classics fill the gaps between the tentpoles. The Masters at Augusta each April and the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on the first Saturday in May teach the two ticketing systems — lottery and on-sale — that LA28 will borrow from, and the Indianapolis 500 on Memorial Day weekend is the best crash course anywhere in moving a six-figure crowd through a mid-sized city. Book those 2027 trips with the Olympics in mind: the airline miles, hotel loyalty tiers, and credit-card credits you stack through 2027 are exactly what you will want in the summer of 2028, when every room in Los Angeles is spoken for.
LA28 tickets release in phases, with registration on the official LA28 platform opening well before public sales — popular sessions like gymnastics, swimming finals, and the opening ceremony will sell through in hours. Expect roughly $30-3,000 per session depending on sport and round, and plan a multi-session strategy rather than chasing one final: preliminary mornings are cheap, walk-up friendly, and often more dramatic than the medal rounds. Verified resale opens closer to the Games, but the official phases carry the cleanest prices. American travelers get an advantage rare in Olympic history — no passport, no currency risk, a domestic ticketing system — so use it, and keep every booking refundable until your session schedule locks.
Match the hotel to a venue cluster rather than chasing the cheapest pin on the map. Downtown LA puts you on the A and E Lines beside Crypto.com Arena and the Convention Center. Exposition Park and USC sit walkable to the Coliseum at gentler guesthouse rates. Long Beach anchors the coastal cluster — rowing on the historic Marine Stadium — at prices well below central LA. Sawtelle and West LA ride the E Line direct to both downtown clusters, with ramen instead of lobby marble. City-wide surges are projected to push normal $150-250 rooms to $250-500 per night with three-to-four-night minimums near marquee venues, so book refundable rates twelve months out and re-shop as the schedule firms.
Skip the rental car entirely. LA's Metro rail connects downtown (A, E, and B Lines), Exposition Park (E Line), Pasadena (A Line), and Long Beach (A Line), with expanded Games-time service and event shuttles promised from key stations. LAX's new automated people mover finally links the airport directly to Metro and the rental-car center — budget thirty to sixty minutes to downtown depending on traffic. Parking near venues will be scarce and expensive, and rideshare surge pricing on session nights will be brutal. Buy a TAP card on day one, load it for the week, and ride like a local.
Day one, the downtown cluster: morning preliminaries at Crypto.com Arena or the Convention Center, lunch at Grand Central Market, an afternoon among the Coliseum's Olympic history, riding the A and E Lines between them. Day two, Inglewood's marquee double: basketball at Intuit Dome, then across the street to SoFi Stadium for a swimming final. Day three, the coast — rowing on Long Beach's Marine Stadium, beach volleyball on the sand, sunset in Santa Monica. Days four and five, fill from the schedule: a track final at the Coliseum, a gymnastics night session, and one slow morning with no ticket at all.