Zwift currently places all riders on the same world according to a changing monthly schedule. If you’d like to ride an off-schedule course, see How to ride any Zwift course at any time using the <world> tag. And as of June 2018, you may also join events held on off-schedule courses!
July 2018
The schedule for July gives us 18 days in Watopia, 2 in Richmond, and 11 in London. We’re starting to see some events being held on “off-schedule” courses, which is an exciting development.
Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
June 2018
The schedule for June gives us 16 days in Watopia, 3 in Richmond, and 11 in London. With nine straight days of Watopia (2nd-10th) surely Zwift has something special planned. And three days in Richmond? Time to race!
Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
May 2018
The schedule for May gives us 17 days in Watopia, 2 in Richmond, and 12 in London. Watopia tends to cover the second half of the week as well as the weekend, with London and Richmond in the early part of the week. We’ve also got a little more London than usual.
Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
April 2018
The schedule for April gives us 18 days in Watopia, 3 in Richmond, and 9 in London. With Alpe du Zwift rolling out soon, extra days on Watopia will be welcome.
Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
March 2018
The schedule for March gives us the same number of Watopia and Richmond days as last month, and quite a few London days as well (12). The second week of the month has 5 London days in row–what do you suppose Zwift has planned?
Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
February 2018
The schedule for February gives us the same number of Watopia days as last month, but fewer London and Richmond days since it’s a short month. Generally speaking we’ve got London early in the week (beginning Mondays) and Watopia at the end of the week and over the weekend. 17 Watopia days, 9 London, 2 Richmond.
Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
January 2018
The schedule for January gives us nearly the same number of days in each world as last month… except… 3 days in Richmond?! Time to race! 17 Watopia days, 11 London, 3 Richmond. Looking forward to course expansions on both London and Watopia this month… perhaps London is coming on on the 8th?
Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
December 2017
The schedule for December gives us a little less Watopia and a little more London/Richmond that recent months. 18 Watopia, 11 London, 2 Richmond. Two Richmond days… when did that happen last?
Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
November 2017
The schedule for November gives us the most Watopia days we’ve had in recent memory, with 22 Watopia days, 7 London, and just 1 Richmond.
Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
October 2017
The schedule for October gives us the most Watopia days we’ve had in recent memory. We’ve got a total of 20 Watopia days, 10 London, and just 1 Richmond.
Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
September 2017
The schedule for September is similar to August’s, with London generally running Sunday-Tuesday, and Watopia running Wednesday-Saturday… plus a couple Richmond days thrown in. We’ve got a total of 18 Watopia days, 10 London, and 2 Richmond.
Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
August 2017
The schedule for August is similar to July’s, although a bit more uniform. We’ve got a total of 18 Watopia days, 11 London, and 2 Richmond.
Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
July 2017
The schedule for July is quite different from June’s, with Watopia being featured later in the week for the first half of the month, then earlier in the week for the second half. Still just 2 Richmond days, but we have 17 Watopia days and 12 in London.
Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
June 2017
The schedule for June is quite different from last month’s, with Watopia being featured early in the week and a lot more London days. Our guess is ZwiftHQ is planning to release some major London updates in the next week or two and wants to let riders try out the new route(s)!
Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
May 2017
May’s schedule is similar to April’s, but with a couple odd Richmond days and London only featured on two Sundays. We’ve got eleven straight days of Watopia from the 11th-21st… what does ZwiftHQ have planned?
Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
April 2017
April brings our most confusing schedule in recent memory. ZwiftHQ must have some special events or course expansions planned! We still get Richmond on the 2nd and 4th Friday like last month, but London and Watopia are all over the place.
Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
March 2017
This schedule is a big change from the last several months, with Watopia and London switching timeslots. Instead of two Richmond Wednesdays we now have two Richmond Fridays. This is the biggest schedule shake-up since November 2016.
What do you suppose is happening on the 7th? Guess we’ll wait and see!
Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
February 2017
This schedule matches January’s, with Watopia featured Sunday-Wednesday and London Thursday-Saturday, the exceptions being two Richmond Wednesdays.
Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
January 2017
This schedule basically matches November and December’s, with Watopia featured Sunday-Wednesday and London Thursday-Saturday, the exceptions being two Richmond Wednesdays.
Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
December 2016
This schedule is similar to November’s, with Watopia generally featured Sunday-Wednesday and London Thursday-Saturday, the exceptions being two Richmond days and a couple Watopia Saturdays (plus an odd Watopia Friday on December 9th–I wonder why that is?)
Keep in mind the course changeover happens at 21:00 Los Angeles time (PST) or UTC-8 hrs.
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?
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