How many corners does the circuit have?
- 19 numbered cornersFIA
- 18 cornersFormula 1
The FIA’s 2026 circuit map numbers corners 1 to 19. Formula 1’s corner-naming guide describes 18 corners and names none at Turn 17.
The circuit
A street circuit
through a city
that keeps working.
The Circuit de Monaco is not a venue you travel to. It is the principality's own roads, closed for a weekend — which is why understanding the lap is the first step in planning the trip.
Orientation
Public roads, three sectors, one harbour.
The circuit runs on the streets of Monte-Carlo and La Condamine, climbing from the harbour to the casino terrace and dropping back to the waterfront through a tunnel. Its measurements come from the FIA's own circuit map rather than from a secondary description.
Circuit data
What the governing body publishes.
- Centreline length
- 3.337 km
- Sectors
- 31.051 / 1.419 / 0.867 km
- Corners
- 1–19numbered on the FIA circuit map · 18 located
- Circuit type
- Streetpublic roads, closed for the event
- First Monaco Grand Prix
- 1929first world championship round 1950
- Organiser
- Automobile Club de Monaco
Sector lengths sum to the published centreline length, which is why both are shown. Lap count, race distance and the lap record change between editions and are not circuit facts — they belong to the race-week page.
The layout
The lap, on the actual streets.
Drawing routeThe itinerary still works without the map.
Ticket-holders only, roughlyClosed to traffic and pedestriansOn foot with a race ticket
Closures are the 2025 regime, from Journal de Monaco n° 8743. The 2027 ordinance publishes about five weeks before the race. The shaded area is approximate — it is drawn around the closed roads and bulges slightly beyond the barriers, so treat it as “roughly behind the fence” rather than a boundary. Two streets the ordinance names are drawn without an exact extent and are left off entirely.
Grandstands are ticketed. Circuit geometry © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
A lap in context
Eighteen corners, or nineteen.
18 corners are pinned on the map above — every one Formula 1 names. The FIA numbers 19; Formula 1 describes 18. That disagreement is recorded rather than resolved, so there is no nineteenth position to plot.
- T1
Sainte Dévote
The first corner after the start, at the foot of the climb out of the harbour.
Monaco’s patron saint, a fourth-century martyr.
- T2
Beau Rivage
The climb away from Sainte Dévote towards Casino.
“Beautiful coastline” — the stretch runs along the Mediterranean.
- T3
Massenet
The left-hand sweep at the top of the hill, beside the casino gardens.
Jules Massenet, the French opera composer, memorialised by a statue nearby.
- T4
Casino Square
The highest, most photographed part of the lap, in front of the casino.
The Casino de Monte-Carlo, opened in 1865.
- T5
Mirabeau Supérieure
The first of two corners named for the same hotel, on the descent.
The Mirabeau Hotel that formerly stood beside Turn 7.
- T6
Hairpin
The slowest corner on the Formula 1 calendar’s most familiar street lap.
Its U-shape. Formerly Station Hairpin, after a railway station that no longer stands there.
- T7
Mirabeau Inférieure
The lower of the two Mirabeau corners, continuing the descent to the sea.
The same hotel; “inférieure” for its lower elevation.
- T8
Portier
The last corner before the circuit drops into the tunnel.
Le Portier, a residential quarter of Monaco.
- T9
The Tunnel
The enclosed section beneath the hotel terraces, and the only covered part of the lap.
The enclosed passage itself.
- T10–11
Nouvelle Chicane
The chicane at the exit of the tunnel, back down at harbour level.
Formerly the Chicane du Port; renamed “nouvelle” — new — in 1986.
- T12
Tabac
The left-hander along the harbour front.
A tobacconist set into the corner.
- T13–16
Swimming Pool
The fast sequence of chicanes around the nautical stadium, beside the harbour.
The Rainier III Nautical Stadium and its swimming pool.
- T17
Turn 17
Numbered on the FIA circuit map; not named in Formula 1’s corner guide.
- T18
La Rascasse
The tight right-hander at the far end of the harbour.
A bar just over the barriers, itself named for a Mediterranean fish.
- T19
Antony Noghès
The final corner, returning the lap to the start line.
The founder of the Monaco Grand Prix, who organised the first race in 1929.
Corner photography
The roads between race weekends.
Authentic photographs of the named sections, selected only where the source identifies the precise corner or a clearly stated complex. They show the circuit as streets rather than promising a race-week viewing position or access route.
TURN 1
Sainte Dévote
Photo by crash71100 · CC0 1.0
TURN 2
Beau Rivage
Photo by crash71100 · CC0 1.0
TURN 3
Massenet
Photo by crash71100 · CC0 1.0
TURN 4
Casino Square
Photo by Santiago Puig Vilado · CC BY-SA 3.0
TURNS 5–7
Mirabeau sequence
Photo by crash71100 · CC0 1.0
TURN 6
Fairmont Hairpin
Photo by Alexander Migl · CC BY-SA 4.0
TURN 8
Portier
Photo by crash71100 · CC0 1.0
TURN 9
The Tunnel
Photo by crash71100 · CC0 1.0
TURNS 10–11
Nouvelle Chicane
Photo by crash71100 · CC0 1.0
TURN 12
Tabac
Photo by crash71100 · CC0 1.0
TURNS 13–16
Swimming Pool complex
Photo by crash71100 · CC0 1.0
TURN 18
La Rascasse
Photo by crash71100 · CC0 1.0
TURN 19
Antony Noghès
Photo by crash71100 · CC0 1.0TURN 17 · Turn 17: The FIA numbers this turn but Formula 1 does not name it. No exact, rights-clearable photo was found, so this gallery does not substitute a neighbouring corner.
Where sources disagree
Two Monaco facts everyone gets wrong.
When was the first Monaco Grand Prix?
- 1929Automobile Club de Monaco
- 1950Formula 1
Both are right about different things: the first Monaco Grand Prix ran in 1929; 1950 was the first Monaco round of the Formula One World Championship.
Sources
- Automobile Club de Monaco — Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco
- Formula 1 — Circuit de Monaco
- FIA — Monaco circuit map and competition notes (PDF)
Circuit facts checked 2026-07-30.
An independent travel guide. Above Guide is not affiliated with Formula One, the FIA or the event organiser.
Race edition20273–6 June 2027Provisional — subject to FIA World Motor Sport Council approvalThe 2026 race, 5–7 June 2026, has taken place.