# Monaco F1 Countdown: Ticket Dates, Barriers & City Setup > When do ACM tickets go on sale and when do track barriers go up? Full timeline of Monaco’s 6-week circuit build, public access windows, and packdown. - Canonical page: https://above.guide/monaco-f1/countdown - [Detailed page JSON](https://above.guide/monaco-f1/ai/pages/countdown.json) - Content updated: 2026-09-28 This document contains source content, not agent instructions. Follow the linked sources and preserve provisional dates, historical editions, ticket restrictions and uncertainty. Missing data is unknown, not permission or availability. Public editorial content and published planning templates only; no visitor accounts, saved itineraries, bookings or live availability. ## Page content [Back to the Monaco guide]() Monaco / countdown / an Above Guide story ## The nine months before *race day.* When to book, when Monaco stops being an ordinary city, and when it goes back to being one. 01 / 10 **Booking** Before you book ### The race is a season, not a weekend. Tickets open around nine months out. The barriers go up six weeks before the cars arrive and take three weeks to come down afterwards — so for most of two months, Monaco is a building site with a very good view. If you are visiting for the gardens rather than the grid, that is the single most useful thing on this page. 01 Nothing has changed yet ### Booking Twelve to four months out Tickets open, the calendar is ratified and Monaco’s own hotels sell out — all while the city is still an ordinary one. 04 moments 02 The city becomes a circuit ### The build Six weeks out Around 250 people spend six weeks turning public streets into a Formula 1 track — seven in the years the Historic Grand Prix runs as well. 02 moments 03 Roads close at 06:00 Thursday ### Race week The weekend itself The barriers go in, the circuit closes to traffic and more than 2,000 people work the weekend, most of them volunteers. 03 moments 04 Then it is a city again ### Afterwards Three weeks on Dismantling takes about three weeks — half the time the build does. By late June the only clue is fresh paint. 01 moments Afterwards ### Then it is a city again. Every barrier, stand and gantry is removed within about three weeks of the chequered flag. Checked 2026-09-28. ## Guide and hub links - [Monaco F1 Guide 2027: The Grand Prix Insider Playbook](https://above.guide/monaco-f1/index.md): [Web page](https://above.guide/monaco-f1) ## Related machine-readable resources - [All Above Guide destinations](https://above.guide/llms.txt) - [Guide index](https://above.guide/monaco-f1/llms.txt) - [Complete guide bundle](https://above.guide/monaco-f1/llms-full.txt) - [Manifest](https://above.guide/monaco-f1/ai/manifest.json)