24 Hours of Le Mans
24 Hours of Le Mans takes place Jun 9 - 13, 2027 (race starts Sat Jun 12, finishes Sun Jun 13) in Le Mans, France. The dress code is Casual and weather-ready. This is a camping-and-standing event: comfortable shoes, layers for the cold pre-dawn hours, waterproofs and ear protection. Hospitality suites lean smart-casual. Typical cost ranges from 400 to 2500 EUR per person.
The world's most important endurance motor race, run since 1923 over the 13.6km Circuit de la Sarthe, which mixes a permanent circuit with public roads closed for the week. Cars run flat out for 24 hours through daylight, dusk, night and dawn, and hundreds of thousands of fans camp inside the circuit to watch it. The scale is the point: a moving city of tents, campfires and floodlights around a track you can walk for hours without repeating yourself.
- When
- Jun 9 - 13, 2027 (race starts Sat Jun 12, finishes Sun Jun 13)
- Where
- Le Mans, France
- Dress code
- Casual and weather-ready. This is a camping-and-standing event: comfortable shoes, layers for the cold pre-dawn hours, waterproofs and ear protection. Hospitality suites lean smart-casual
- Cost
- Typical cost ranges from 400 to 2500 EUR per person.
- Weather
- 20 - 25C by day dropping to single digits overnight, with a real chance of rain over 24 hours
- When to book
- General admission and camping open the previous autumn and the good campsites go quickly; book 6 - 9 months out
- Getting there
- CDG (Paris Charles de Gaulle), 2 hr to Le Mans by TGV via Paris
- Where to stay
- Le Mans Country Club, Mercure Le Mans Centre Gare, Domaine de la Groirie (Trange)
- Official site
- https://www.24h-lemans.com/en
How to attend
Buy from the official 24h-lemans.com site, ideally months ahead. A general admission week ticket runs roughly EUR 90 - 170 and covers the public enclosures and infield, numbered grandstand seats start around EUR 200, and hospitality packages run into the thousands. Fully open to the public. On-site campsites are sold with the ticket and are the classic way to do it; Le Mans hotels are booked out a year in advance.
Insider tip
Skip the main straight and walk out to the Porsche Curves or Tertre Rouge at around 2am - the cars are at their most spectacular in the dark, the crowds have thinned, and general admission tickets cover both.
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