With late January’s release of guest world functionality, Watopia is now available every day. The other four worlds rotate as the “Guest World” according to the calendar below, giving Zwifters access to two worlds (Watopia + Guest) at any given time.
If you’d like to ride an off-schedule course, see How to ride any Zwift course at any time using the <world> tag. You may also join events held on off-schedule courses.
October 2019
The schedule for October gives us 2 Yorkshire, 12 London, 13 New York, 2 Innsbruck, and 2 Richmond days. (Yorkshire days are indicated by light grey below.)
In addition to these rotating guest worlds, Watopia is always available.
Keep in mind the guest world course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
September 2019
The schedule for September gives us 17 Yorkshire, 3 London, 5 New York, 3 Innsbruck, and 2 Richmond days. Yorkshire days are indicated by light grey below.
In addition to these rotating guest worlds, Watopia is always available.
Keep in mind the guest world course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
August 2019
The schedule for August gives us 14 London, 11 New York, 4 Innsbruck, and 2 Richmond days. In addition to these rotating guest worlds, Watopia is always available.
Keep in mind the guest world course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
July 2019
The schedule for July gives us 12 London, 12 New York, 4 Innsbruck, and 3 Richmond days. In addition to these rotating guest worlds, Watopia is always available.
Keep in mind the guest world course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
June 2019
The schedule for June gives us 11 London, 11 New York, 5 Innsbruck, and 3 Richmond days. In addition to these rotating guest worlds, Watopia is always available.
Keep in mind the guest world course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
May 2019
The schedule for May gives us 12 days in London, 11 in New York, 5 in Innsbruck, and 3 in Richmond. In addition to these rotating guest worlds, Watopia is always available.
Keep in mind the guest world course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
April 2019
The schedule for April gives us 10 days in London, 12 in New York, 5 in Innsbruck, and 3 in Richmond. In addition to these guest worlds, Watopia is always available as the “home world.”
Keep in mind the guest world course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
March 2019
The schedule for March gives us 11 days in London, 11 in New York, 5 in Innsbruck, and 4 in Richmond. In addition to these guest worlds, Watopia is always available as the “home world.”
Keep in mind the guest world course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
February 2019
The schedule for February gives us 10 days in London, 12 in New York, 4 in Innsbruck, and 2 in Richmond. In addition to these guest worlds, Watopia is always available as the “home world.”
Keep in mind the guest world course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
January 2019
UPDATE: with guest world feature release, the daily guest map schedule will certainly be changing for January. We will update it here once a new schedule is available.
The schedule for January gives us 14 days in Watopia, 9 in London, and 7 in New York. Our guess is they are working on world choice/guest map option and this calendar could change during the month.
Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
Invisible Row
December 2018
The schedule for December gives us 15 days in Watopia, 9 in London, 6 in New York, and 1 in Innsbruck.
Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
November 2018
October 2018
September 2018
August 2018
July 2018
June 2018
May 2018
April 2018
March 2018
February 2018
January 2018
Invisible Row
December 2017
November 2017
October 2017
September 2017
August 2017
July 2017
June 2017
May 2017
April 2017
March 2017
February 2017
January 2017
Invisible Row
December 2016
November 2016
This schedule is very different from the past couple months, swapping London and Watopia’s places in the week.
London moves to Thursday-Saturday, and Watopia is Sunday through Wednesday, with the exception of Wednesdays the 9th and 23rd, which will be in Richmond.
October 2016
The October course schedule for Zwift has been posted, and it is nearly identical to September’s schedule with London on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, Richmond only being used two Wednesdays of the month, and Watopia on all other days.
The only exception to this schedule is we’ll be staying on Watopia Sunday, October 16th instead of riding in London.
What do you suppose Zwift HQ has up their sleeve on Sunday the 16th?
With late January’s release of guest world functionality, Watopia is now available every day. The other four worlds rotate as the “Guest World” according to the calendar below, giving Zwifters access to two worlds (Watopia + Guest) at any given time.
If you’d like to ride an off-schedule course, see How to ride any Zwift course at any time using the <world> tag. You may also join events held on off-schedule courses.
June 2019
The schedule for June gives us 11 London, 11 New York, 5 Innsbruck, and 3 Richmond days. In addition to these rotating guest worlds, Watopia is always available.
Keep in mind the guest world course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
May 2019
The schedule for May gives us 12 days in London, 11 in New York, 5 in Innsbruck, and 3 in Richmond. In addition to these rotating guest worlds, Watopia is always available.
Keep in mind the guest world course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
April 2019
The schedule for April gives us 10 days in London, 12 in New York, 5 in Innsbruck, and 3 in Richmond. In addition to these guest worlds, Watopia is always available as the “home world.”
Keep in mind the guest world course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
March 2019
The schedule for March gives us 11 days in London, 11 in New York, 5 in Innsbruck, and 4 in Richmond. In addition to these guest worlds, Watopia is always available as the “home world.”
Keep in mind the guest world course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
February 2019
The schedule for February gives us 10 days in London, 12 in New York, 4 in Innsbruck, and 2 in Richmond. In addition to these guest worlds, Watopia is always available as the “home world.”
Keep in mind the guest world course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
January 2019
UPDATE: with guest world feature release, the daily guest map schedule will certainly be changing for January. We will update it here once a new schedule is available.
The schedule for January gives us 14 days in Watopia, 9 in London, and 7 in New York. Our guess is they are working on world choice/guest map option and this calendar could change during the month.
Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
June 2019
The schedule for June gives us 11 London, 11 New York, 5 Innsbruck, and 3 Richmond days. In addition to these rotating guest worlds, Watopia is always available.
Keep in mind the guest world course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
May 2019
The schedule for May gives us 12 days in London, 11 in New York, 5 in Innsbruck, and 3 in Richmond. In addition to these rotating guest worlds, Watopia is always available.
Keep in mind the guest world course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
April 2019
The schedule for April gives us 10 days in London, 12 in New York, 5 in Innsbruck, and 3 in Richmond. In addition to these guest worlds, Watopia is always available as the “home world.”
Keep in mind the guest world course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
March 2019
The schedule for March gives us 11 days in London, 11 in New York, 5 in Innsbruck, and 4 in Richmond. In addition to these guest worlds, Watopia is always available as the “home world.”
Keep in mind the guest world course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
February 2019
The schedule for February gives us 10 days in London, 12 in New York, 4 in Innsbruck, and 2 in Richmond. In addition to these guest worlds, Watopia is always available as the “home world.”
Keep in mind the guest world course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
January 2019
UPDATE: with guest world feature release, the daily guest map schedule will certainly be changing for January. We will update it here once a new schedule is available.
The schedule for January gives us 14 days in Watopia, 9 in London, and 7 in New York. Our guess is they are working on world choice/guest map option and this calendar could change during the month.
Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
June 2019
The schedule for June gives us 11 London, 11 New York, 5 Innsbruck, and 3 Richmond days. In addition to these rotating guest worlds, Watopia is always available.
Keep in mind the guest world course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
May 2019
The schedule for May gives us 12 days in London, 11 in New York, 5 in Innsbruck, and 3 in Richmond. In addition to these rotating guest worlds, Watopia is always available.
Keep in mind the guest world course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
April 2019
The schedule for April gives us 10 days in London, 12 in New York, 5 in Innsbruck, and 3 in Richmond. In addition to these guest worlds, Watopia is always available as the “home world.”
Keep in mind the guest world course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
March 2019
The schedule for March gives us 11 days in London, 11 in New York, 5 in Innsbruck, and 4 in Richmond. In addition to these guest worlds, Watopia is always available as the “home world.”
Keep in mind the guest world course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
February 2019
The schedule for February gives us 10 days in London, 12 in New York, 4 in Innsbruck, and 2 in Richmond. In addition to these guest worlds, Watopia is always available as the “home world.”
Keep in mind the guest world course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
January 2019
UPDATE: with guest world feature release, the daily guest map schedule will certainly be changing for January. We will update it here once a new schedule is available.
The schedule for January gives us 14 days in Watopia, 9 in London, and 7 in New York. Our guess is they are working on world choice/guest map option and this calendar could change during the month.
Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
June 2019
The schedule for June gives us 11 London, 11 New York, 5 Innsbruck, and 3 Richmond days. In addition to these rotating guest worlds, Watopia is always available.
Keep in mind the guest world course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
May 2019
The schedule for May gives us 12 days in London, 11 in New York, 5 in Innsbruck, and 3 in Richmond. In addition to these rotating guest worlds, Watopia is always available.
Keep in mind the guest world course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
April 2019
The schedule for April gives us 10 days in London, 12 in New York, 5 in Innsbruck, and 3 in Richmond. In addition to these guest worlds, Watopia is always available as the “home world.”
Keep in mind the guest world course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
March 2019
The schedule for March gives us 11 days in London, 11 in New York, 5 in Innsbruck, and 4 in Richmond. In addition to these guest worlds, Watopia is always available as the “home world.”
Keep in mind the guest world course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
February 2019
The schedule for February gives us 10 days in London, 12 in New York, 4 in Innsbruck, and 2 in Richmond. In addition to these guest worlds, Watopia is always available as the “home world.”
Keep in mind the guest world course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
January 2019
UPDATE: with guest world feature release, the daily guest map schedule will certainly be changing for January. We will update it here once a new schedule is available.
The schedule for January gives us 14 days in Watopia, 9 in London, and 7 in New York. Our guess is they are working on world choice/guest map option and this calendar could change during the month.
Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
June 2019
The schedule for June gives us 11 London, 11 New York, 5 Innsbruck, and 3 Richmond days. In addition to these rotating guest worlds, Watopia is always available.
Keep in mind the guest world course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
May 2019
The schedule for May gives us 12 days in London, 11 in New York, 5 in Innsbruck, and 3 in Richmond. In addition to these rotating guest worlds, Watopia is always available.
Keep in mind the guest world course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
April 2019
The schedule for April gives us 10 days in London, 12 in New York, 5 in Innsbruck, and 3 in Richmond. In addition to these guest worlds, Watopia is always available as the “home world.”
Keep in mind the guest world course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
March 2019
The schedule for March gives us 11 days in London, 11 in New York, 5 in Innsbruck, and 4 in Richmond. In addition to these guest worlds, Watopia is always available as the “home world.”
Keep in mind the guest world course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
February 2019
The schedule for February gives us 10 days in London, 12 in New York, 4 in Innsbruck, and 2 in Richmond. In addition to these guest worlds, Watopia is always available as the “home world.”
Keep in mind the guest world course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
January 2019
UPDATE: with guest world feature release, the daily guest map schedule will certainly be changing for January. We will update it here once a new schedule is available.
The schedule for January gives us 14 days in Watopia, 9 in London, and 7 in New York. Our guess is they are working on world choice/guest map option and this calendar could change during the month.
Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
Invisible Row
December 2018
The schedule for December gives us 15 days in Watopia, 9 in London, 6 in New York, and 1 in Innsbruck.
Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
November 2018
October 2018
September 2018
August 2018
July 2018
June 2018
May 2018
April 2018
March 2018
February 2018
January 2018
Invisible Row
December 2017
November 2017
October 2017
September 2017
August 2017
July 2017
June 2017
May 2017
April 2017
March 2017
February 2017
January 2017
Invisible Row
December 2016
November 2016
This schedule is very different from the past couple months, swapping London and Watopia’s places in the week.
London moves to Thursday-Saturday, and Watopia is Sunday through Wednesday, with the exception of Wednesdays the 9th and 23rd, which will be in Richmond.
October 2016
The October course schedule for Zwift has been posted, and it is nearly identical to September’s schedule with London on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, Richmond only being used two Wednesdays of the month, and Watopia on all other days.
The only exception to this schedule is we’ll be staying on Watopia Sunday, October 16th instead of riding in London.
What do you suppose Zwift HQ has up their sleeve on Sunday the 16th?
Has anyone else noticed a new road leading down from the radio tower. Or has it been there for ages? I spotted as o rolled down the reverse Epic KOM
I haven’t noticed that, no. You got a screenshot?
I know it gets mentioned every couple months, but I really wish Richmond got a day every week. I don’t understand the huge priority London gets over Richmond since I like them both pretty equally. I do think Richmond needs the ability to do U-turns, though.
The only thing less fun than Richmond is dinner at a trainspotting convention.
About time Zwift got it’s act together and put in real courses like the Spring Classics. Mimicked climbs like Ventoux. This game could be immense. Why so much dreariness. They need to hire talent.
Agree more realism needed, not that hard to do now. Find the Volcano is a credibility jump too far for me. I now avoid it.
I like Richmond, too! But it seems like we’re in the minority. Perhaps ZwiftHQ will expand it and utilize it more in the future. Richmond is actually my favorite course for racing–I like how it’s structured overall.
Richmond is infrequent because it lacks a big climb.
@eschlange you can always edit your prefs.xml file in Documents/Zwift…
Add in
2
just before the
This will set you to Richmond all the time (just remove it to go back to the scheduled maps)
To ride Watopia, add: 1
To ride Richmond, add: 2
To ride London, add: 3
I realize this… I’m the guy who maintains this site. 😉
Haha! Fair enough… thanks for the world hack though… very happy that I can choose where to ride when I want to…
Maybe this is the point. Zwift have left the world hack open to be used and can see how many people are using it and for which world. If more people want Richmond then more people would use the world hack for Richmond and i believe Zwift would put more Richmond days up accordingly. I world hack onto Watopia all the time because i want that mountain for my Tron Bike 50000 meters challenge. Once i’ve got my Tron Bike i’ll definitley be hacking into Richmond a lot because i do like the course, but at the moment it’s not what i’m working towards.
Would definitely love to see Zwift replicate some of the Dolomite days from Giro etc. Get some real mountains going instead of this little pussy one in Watopia.
All my tags got removed… very annoying….!
I get bored doing London so often since London has typically been on the weekends. I wish they’d throw Richmond in their a bit more often. Why is it only worthy of one day a fortnight?
Use the world hack… https://zwiftinsider.com/world-tag-ios/
Still think London gets far too much, Sat and Suns. please too much. Would not be so bad if the course was bigger. Not everyone wants to do Box or Fox hill laps and that infernal Subway climb. And please cut out the rain. Thats why we Zwift cos its raining outside.
Hope you’re right and something exciting is happening on the 7th of March! 🙂
Too much London is the reason my last ride on Zwift was over a month ago. I guess some people like it given it gets priority each month. Came here hoping for better news .. but alas London is still featured prominently.
Use the world hack… https://zwiftinsider.com/world-tag-ios/
I like the schedule change for March 17 as come Spring I start doing longer rides outside on a Sunday, and the thought of doing 3 or 4hrs round London on a Sunday is enough to make me want to go out lol…
Having Watopia on a Sunday over Winter works well as I don’t ride out much over Winter and a lap of the island is a lot longer than a London or Richmond lap. But why restrict Richmond to 2 times a month, it should be a weekly thing same as London or Watopia.
Gutted with the schedule change 🙁 Loved doing The Pretzel every Sunday morning, the thought of London for a couple of hours is enough to put me back on the roads. Oh well is was fun.
It seems the underlying theme here is one of preferences and choice which, at least to me, suggests that Zwift really needs to implement map selection. They have enough users now to allow that to happen without having to worry about not having enough riders on a given map so that it doesn’t feel empty. Oh and what is with the rain on Watopia now! Hope that was a mistake lol. Next thing you know they’ll add honking cars, screaming drivers, and snow! 😛
I noticed last week when it was raining in Watopia that a lot of people stopped on the side of the road. Is this like a mass protest or something? I hate rain there too. Please don’t add rain to Watopia. If I wanted to endure the misery of riding in a gloomy weather I would have not joined Zwift and just ride outside during the winter months.
They really need to do something about their day night cycle as well, One lap of Watopia can be either light or dark. A 2hr ride seems like you have gone thru a week. And get rid of the rain.
Totally agree, ditch the rain and sort out the day/night cycles. Think it’s easy enough to keep to the approx day/night cycle of the respective courses. Shouldn’t be riding London in the dark when it’s 2pm in the UK, that’s just stupid.
On the other hand, I live in Seattle and if I want to ride after work it would ALWAYS be dark in London. I think the “days” are too short though and should be lengthened without changing the length of the “nights”.
I like the light rain but the heavy thunder and lightning weather is too much.
Same, I joined Zwift and kept having to ride London and haven’t played in awhile now. Wish they would bang out more course options, that London course is crazy boring.
What’s tomorrow’s course? https://community.zwift.com/#course-schedule
Tomorrow is Watopia! https://zwiftinsider.com/schedule/
Really, doesn’t anyone on here actually read through Zwiftblog? Why complain about the course not being the one you want on the day you want when you can all use the world hack and ride whatever course you want when you want to… https://zwiftinsider.com/world-tag-ios/
If you all want to ride Richmond, or wherever, on a Sunday morning then do so and Zwift will see that that’s what most people want.
I ride Watopia all the time because i want to complete my 50000 Tron Bike challenge. The courses are all open all the time for whenever you want them. Just use the world hack and ride wherever you wish to. Ergo, stop moaning and just get on with it. xxxx
Too hard for me to negotiate all that coding changes. Challenged enough with computers as it is.
It’s really easy to do. It’s not a lot of coding changes at all, you just have to go to your Zwift folder which should be in your documents folder and open your ‘prefs’ file in notepad and add the line… 1 as the last line above the line at the bottom. Then just save and close.
Open Zwift and you’ll find yourself on Watopia every time if you use 1 or Richmond if you use 2 or London if you use 3
Looked at that page and it made no sense at all. Told you I have no idea.
Are you on PC or Apple?
PC Just a mass of code and stuff I have no idea of, or where to start.
Ok. I’ll write a much clearer and easier to follow version, with some pics, as to how to do it later today when i get a few moments spare and get back to you once it’s done.
Hi David, just finished it… http://growingyoung.co.uk/health-fitness-and-wellbeing/cycling/zwift-world-hack-for-windows/
Hopefully that should make it easier. Just don’t worry about all the coding stuff written in the prefs file, it’s completely irrelevant to what we’re doing, just paste in the world bits exactly where shown and that’s all you need to do.
Ok think I got it. Annoying everytime I switched tabs. I had to re open the Zwift file. I forget where I am in the process. I am a definite file 404 not found sort of person. But thanks for your help. Richmond and Watopia for me until they do something with London.
Glad to help. 😀
something coming on the 15th maybe?
I would love to see the Rio Olympic Road Cycling course added!! That final climb and descent would be epic!
London expansion in June I reckon.
That is a lot more London than usual, hopefully that big update they’ve hinted at is coming! Looks like I’ll be getting in a good amount of Box Hill climbing time this month.
I don’t believe it. Zwiftblog recognized odd patterns in the agenda in all of the previous months, hinting at the possible release of new routes. Nothing ever happened, though weather in those months was on the edge of riding indoors vs. outdoors, so users might have been interested to try out. However, for the time being Zwift only needs rumors, as people just need enough of a spark of interest to stay subscribed. People will then return anyways in November and December. If Zwift wants them to return a bit earlier, it might make sense to release the expansion in September/October, at earliest in August (Tour of Britain is in September, by the way). But now? I’d only expect a small expansion at best.
Well it will have to something special for me to venture back to London, I just hate London so hack Watopia instead.
Wow
Watopia expansion coming by the looks of it. Please lord, some hills and rolling roads 🙂
Rumor has it July 13 will be Watopia mountain bike trail. One straight week for Watopia.
And maybe the promised levels 26-30. Yipee-ki-ya!
Hopefully … but there was also a long stretch of Watopia in May that lead to nothing.
I don’t think Zwift will ever add levels above 25. You still accumulate XP even after 25 so those of us who have been playing for a long time would instantly hit any new level cap and be back at square one.
What’s more likely is they will completely remove all levels and convert XP to gold which you can spend on in game items. The Zwift profiles API has had a field for gold (currently 0 for everyone) for a long time so it’s definitely in the works.
The long stretch in May was to tie in with the tour of California. Pretty sure they did the same last year.
An insider told me about the levels. Your current points are not accumulating to level 26, those km’s won’t start until they are released. (so I’m told) but, there is a chance they won’t be on the July update.
XP is still accumulating, you can see it in game.
According to Zwift Blog level 25 requires 110,000 XP and I’m currently at 340,000 XP. Long term players like me would need levels 26-50 for it to be worthwhile and Zwift probably isn’t going to create enough new bikes or kits for that.
I’ve never understood why Zwift has a schedule instead of an option to select a course on the login menu? It must be possible, as we can do it through the prefs.xml hack.
Agree with that we should choose what we ride, it could help Zwift then as to where to spend their time in improving or developing new courses.
Never understood why they don’t simply link the three maps together so you can go from one world to another during the same ride. Would help to give a bit more variety.
I’m guessing it’s because Strava and other apps can’t deal with it. In order to map on Strava, Garmin, etc., these have to be in the real world. Just look at the mess apps make of Box Hill – can you imagine them trying to jump from the Pacific Ocean to Trafalgar Square?
I’m sure you’re right. But as you say Box Hill is a mess and Watopia bears no resemblance to the real world map; half of it is in the sea! Would it really matter if Richmond was plonked next to it in the Pacific?
I believe the reason they put Watopia where they did was to isolate it from the real world so they could create a fantasy cycling paradise. Richmond is Richmond and London is London.
As an ex- London urban combat cyclist (12.5 years) before i moved to Devon, i really love going back to London and riding some of the old roads without all the vans and taxis trying to kill me, but i really don’t like the Box Hill connection thing, but it was a work round to solve the problem of not having to create all those roads to do the full London course which would have been completely unaffordable for Zwift at the time. The last London expansion added a little more of the PRL course towards Box the real way, and being the ever optimistic person that i am, LOL, i’m thinking that over time, and with new investors coming on board, Zwift will hopefully fill in the rest of it, bit by bit, and connect Fox the proper way – which would be awesome. But that’s a lot of investment and will take some years to do.
I get your point though. It would be fun to be able to jump worlds a lot easier in Zwift without having to close the whole game, hack the pref file, and restart it all. I still don’t understand why they don’t just allow people to pick the world they want to ride at start up instead of this silly calendar thing. The worlds are accessible through hacking the pref file so i really don’t understand why Zwift don’t just let people pick when they start up the program – that would have to be the first step to get closer to what you are after, i think?
To answer your question I just get a little fed up that depending which world you ride (and I rode London earlier….on a Watopia day) you start from the same spot; to get to the same point (say the top of Watopia mountain) you have to go over the same roads….again etc etc. It would be a nice variant, on a lap of Richmond, to be able to break off half way along and ride Box Hill or whatever without changing maps or even to be able to start at the top of the mountain and just do a loop.
Anyway, at 61 I just use this to keep fit; to do my 60 – 75 miles a week which is usually impossible outdoors. I can just as easily do it using other apps which are (for now at least) free and give me much greater variety. So when my current month is up I’ll probably ditch it….not for the first time!
As an aside I’ve fought the London roads as well; back in the 1980’s I used to cycle from Harrow to Hendon every day and for about three years in the mid 1990’s in the summer months I would cycle from Chelmsford to the City and back a couple of times a week depending on the weather. Don’t think I’d dare risk that stretch from Stratford in to the City these days, though….
Agree you should be able to pick your world on start up. Cannot really see any server problems with that. They may get a suprise as to what gets used the most. May help in where to spend their money.
Geoffrey… i do think the spawn point thing could do with sorting out. I can understand it being like it was when there wasn’t a map but now that there’s a map of the course it would be a great update to be able to pick your spawn point on the map and start wherever you want.
I’m hoping a lot of your ideas will be solved with future updates. Choice of world in which to ride, not having to close and re-open program to change worlds, choice of spawn point, etc.. I think these are all do-able as future updates. Fingers crossed.
Also think Zwift should allow resizing, moving and removing of on screen data. It’s all either too big, unnecessary or could be put in a much preferred place.
And likewise, i certainly wouldn’t be found riding around the real London ever again unless i’m in a closed course event. When i was younger i did enjoy the Urban Combat Cycling – especially in the city before congestion charging came in – the adrenalin rush was incredible and you had to be 100% focused to survive.
David… totally agree. If people could pick their courses easily at start up and also their spawn points it would definitely give Zwift much better feedback on future update areas.
And yeah, ditch the night time thing – or at least make it factual to what it is in that place at the time if they’re going to have night time. I watch ‘Treadmill TV’ videos when i’m on my treadmill and always play the super sunny ones. Who wants to run or ride indoors with dark, overcast, rainy virtual reality – i thought that’s why we did indoor training in the first place, to get away from those conditions.
I would like to see the night gone, as whenever I ride here in Australia during the day.. It is always alot of night on Zwift, or at least get the cycle right. Doing a Pretzel takes 3 days. I am not that slow. Also ditch the rain. That is usually why we Zwift, cos its wet outside.
About how early does Zwift post the next months schedule? Id like to start planning for December.
Not very. Typically within the last 3-5 days of the month.
Hey Zwift generally a good experience but..any plans to *let the user* limit the number of riders – or eliminate completely – seen on the screen? I could barely see the pavement the other day. Awful! My buddy and I ended our ride early the other day because it was so distracting.
I’m sticking with Zwift for now, but I am hoping a competitor comes soon because not being able to race myself, having 1000 people on the same road as me, and having to edit the prefs.xml file to choose where to ride all seem like things a competitor would address.
All you have to do is unplug from the internet after you get Zwift up and running. Then plug back in to upload your ride when done. In the time unplugged you will be riding on empty roads.
So my guess is that we will see the London extension the 27th of December 2017.
Hmm, I was riding London this morning. According to the calendar today and yesterday there should be Watopia on the plan. Strange …
Looks a bit “different” here – https://community.zwift.com/#course-schedule
Obviously, today (Friday) was London not Watopia. Can anyone confirm WBR ride tomorrow is Watopia?
Yes, it’s on Watopia. Looks like ZwiftHQ updated the calendar a bit after initially publishing. I just updated the image above to reflect that.
Question is, do I ride London now or stay up late until the “current world” changes back to Watopia 🙂
The location for January 8th is listed as Watopia on the Zwift program after login. I guess they changed their mind after you posted this. It’s now 17 days Watopia, 11 London and 3 Richmond.
Hopefully the London update is worthwhile. More flat roads would be boring. The London and Richmond course are just 90% flat runs. I don’t really get the point of doing then because you could just do the hilly route or even flat on watopia to get the same effect.
I’m hoping they’ll just add all of the Sussex part of the PRL classic course. That’s certainly what it needs…
https://d1ffaecguugkl4.cloudfront.net/ridelondon/live/uploads/cms_page_media/105/Prudential-RideLondon-Surrey-Classic-route-map.pdf
The PRL doesn’t go into Sussex… you mean Surrey?
I think it’s obvious what i meant.
Err no not obvious if you said the wrong couny ??
Eric. Can i ask you guys to do something a little different? Please publish the schedule a bit earlier. I lead the SMITE event on saturday mornings at 9am, and given it’s a strava segment oriented HIIT ride, there’s a tonne of work i need to do to scout the routes, select (and make the segments), before sending out a notice to all club members with the structure of the event. If it’s a simple matter of publishing the calendar early, that would be awesome! If there is some technical or other reason you can’t, i totally get it. Just thought i’d ask.
I don’t create the schedule–I just publish it once I see Zwift has released it. You’ll need to talk to them about releasing it sooner! 🙂
I suspected as much after i hit ‘post comment’. Cheers anyway. I’ll ask Allen C.
London & Richmond should never be on the weekend.
https://calendar.google.com/calendar?cid=dG9nMTUwNTgyZHBndTVqYm1uZjgwOXIxYWdAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ
I detest london. #End_Zwift_London
Hmmmm….. https://community.zwift.com/#course-schedule
The hack doesn’t work on Macs.
Half the month on Innsbruck including an 8-day stretch? Sure it’s UCI Worlds month and it’s a pretty good course but still, that’s a lot of time shoehorned onto the one small map* and one without a proper “flat” course. It lacks choice and variety of routes. In-game user world selection has GOT to be coming soon, right? Yeah, I’ve been saying that for some time now…
* Yes I know you can hack, but that’s almost beside the point at this stage.
No Richmond all month …. Double 🙁
I like Richmond, don’t understand all the dislike of that course?
I agree!
I habe a problem with the Innsbruck course. The power of my trainer does not adjust. why is that only in Innsbruck?
October 2018?
Just posted!
Needs an update. No longer Richmond.
Has New York replace Richmond?
I haven’t tried New York yet.
Was hoping for New York this month 🙂
Will the Innsbruck course stay for the long term?
Yes, the question is how often it will be in the “World of the day” rotation. But it won’t go away, that’s for sure. Event organizers can hold races on it whenever they’d like, etc.
I believe Zwift plans to expand this course at least a little bit in the future… you can see some “under construction” roads in the city center as you ride.
Now there are several worlds, can Zwift please move to giving us a choice at the log-in stage. At least a choice of two. I like all of the worlds, but Richmond, Innsbruck and New York are small, and having the same small world day after day is, sorry, a bit boring!
Hi – I’m colour blind (red/green) and find the shades you use quite difficult to distinguish. Could you use brighter primary colours or add a hover over text bar? Thanks!
Hi Silas,
Apologies. I just take the image from Zwift’s own site calendar (https://community.zwift.com/). I tried to adjust the colors a bit this month (December 2018)–is it any better for you?
when is December schedule avaiable? please 🙂
Just posted.
Wen the Amstel Gold Race ll be on the program..
Hi. What about December 2018.
Just posted!
Thank you 😁
Thanks for this. There are no colors for several days in Oct 2018. Yes I know old, but I was just curious was the schedule was in the past. Anyone remember what those days were?
I believe that was when NYC was launched… those became NYC days.
Hey Eric, any intentions to setup an outlook/google shareable/subcribable calender?
Cheers Martin
Hi Martin,
Not at this time… it wouldn’t be a hard project for someone with some programming mojo to pull off, though!
Just getting started with Zwift. What happens at the exact time the “world” changes, if you are in the middle of a ride? Is this something to avoid?
Nah, it’s not problem. You may just notice that the number of riders in that world starts to decrease. But it won’t mess up your ride at all!
Welcome to Zwift! The addiction is real…
Thanks for letting me know. Maybe I’ll try to make that happen sometime! I was riding in the “Fondo” for December, a few days back, and your name came up, you must have been sending messages to the group, and I thought, “Hey, ZwiftInsider!!”
Yes, Zwift has been addictive, and super helpful. I ride outside a lot, but this has been a winter of freezing rain and freeze thaw cycles. Happy to be on my trainer! Thanks for your work on this site, and all the helpful info!!
Did the schedule changed due to the Tour of London? Based on this calendar Watopia is planned on Stage 3 day in London.
I don’t think so. Keep in mind events can be held on off-calendar courses, so this is no big deal!
Could you let us know if/when there would be a multiple worlds offered. I know I can ride other off-calendar courses but I would like to do a race in NY once a week or so. Thinking for one it would be cool if there was an option that asked to select your world and 2nd if there were races planned for each world.
I have no idea–I’m not ZwiftHQ! See https://zwiftinsider.com/where-is-map-choice/ for current status of world choice.
I set up a rudamentary personal iCal for myself for December. Am happy to share when January comes online… Just let me know
Where is the January calendar? How come Zwift haven’t released it yet? I’m supposed to be organising an event tomorrow and I have no idea if it will be able to go ahead now.
Based on the routes for events from https://zwifthacks.com/app/events/ I would guess that Jan 1-2 is London, Jan 3-4 Watopia. But I’m not sure if it’s accurate if the schedule hasn’t been announced.
I have created an iCal for January if anyone is interested in it – am happy to send it across to people.
Why don’t we see Richmond nor Innsbruck anymore? NY is cool but seems generally overcrowded to me!? Any info on this?
They’re baaaaack!
Why are you showing guest like it’s the only thing out there now? What happened to the primary?
Big question is why can’t you show both on the same calendar?
Personally the only thing I want is to know is where the people are so I can go to the place where they aren’t and this new calendar only showing guest is of what purpose? Why would anyone want to know only the guest site?
There seem to be some misunderstandings here, Steven.
First: I’m not Zwift. I just run a fansite ABOUT Zwift.
Second: Watopia is ALWAYS the “home world”, so it doesn’t need to be shown on the calendar. It’s not going anywhere.
Third: lots of people want to know which world is the guest world… so they can plan to ride their if they want. They know Watopia is also available and they can ride there anytime…
@Steven. lol.
Why would Watopia need to be shown on the calendar when it’s every single day? And when you start up Zwift and are at the menu where you choose your world (Watopia or guest), it shows you the rider count for both so you can pick whichever is busiest or quietest if you wish.
Hi Eric – thanks for setting up this page – very useful. Is it possible to show the following month as well as the current month?
I can only show the calendar Zwift publishes… and they usually don’t have the next month ready until the last few days of the month. Speaking of which… I just noticed March is up. Time to update this page!
Do you update your iCal every month? If so, would you be willing to publish the url?
My previous question was directed to Lawrence Pacey
I entered the “Ride the Worlds Challenge” but I missed al the NY days (so I just figured out) is it possible to access the NY route today or tomorrow even though it isn’t posted on the schedule? Only need to ride NY to complete the challenge which ends March 31st.
Hi Eric, Is the month of June published yet?
It is now!
When does October 2019 schedule come out please???? It’s October !!! LOL 😉
That’s a great question! We’re waiting on Zwift to release it…
Why not more balance between the world’s? Lots of londen and NY, and just few days of say.. Innsbruck
So … is Yorkshire the light grey mark, and not shown on the key, or is there no return to Harrogate now that the Worlds are over? Even if it is the light grey, seems a bit stingy given it is a new world and some of us are only just getting our turbos out for the Autumn. Especially when (much as I like the occasional ride around NYC) there is a massive surplus of riding days in the Big Apple.
Yes, Yorkshire is light grey.
Interesting that Innsbruck, Yorkshire and Richmond (all UCI World Championship courses) are on Monday and Fridays only this month and also that Monday and Friday happen to be the off days on TrainerRoad base plans. Surely that’s a coincidence, right?