List of Olympic torch relays

Summer Olympic Games

Site of the Olympic Games	Days	Total length	Total number of torchbearers	Route
Berlin 1936	8	3,422	3,422	Olympia – Athens – Thessaloniki – Sofia – Belgrade – Budapest – Vienna – Prague – Dresden – Berlin Two secondary relays carried the flame from Olympic Stadium in Berlin to the off-site aquatic venues: Grunau, and Kiel. The cauldron in Kiel sat in an old Hanseatic galley in the bay. Kiel would also be the yachting site of the 1972 Munich Olympics.
/ Cancelled 1940 Games
Cancelled 1944 Games
London 1948	13	7,870	3,372	Olympia – Corfu Bari – Milan – Lausanne – Geneva – Besançon – Metz – Luxembourg – Brussels – Lille – Calais – Dover – London A second relay carried the flame from Wembley, where the Games were based, to the sailing centre at Torbay, via Slough, Basingstoke, Salisbury, and Exeter.
Helsinki 1952	5	3,365	1,416	Olympia - Athens Aalborg - Odense - Copenhagen Malmö - Gothenburg - Stockholm - Tornio - Oulu - Helsinki. A second flame was lit in Pallastunturi and joined the main one in Tornio
Melbourne 1956	21	20,470	3,118	Olympia - Athens Darwin - Brisbane - Sydney - Canberra - Melbourne
Stockholm 1956	9	1,000	490	Olympia - Athens Copenhagen Malmö - Stockholm
Rome 1960	14	2,750	1,529	Olympia - Athens Syracuse - Catania - Messina - Reggio Calabria - Naples - Rome
Tokyo 1964	51	20,065	870	Olympia - Athens Istanbul - Beirut - Tehran - Lahore - New Delhi - Rangoon - Bangkok - Kuala Lumpur - Manila - Hong Kong - Taipei - Okinawa - Tokyo
Mexico City 1968	51	13,620	2,778	Olympia - Athens Genoa Barcelona - Madrid - Seville - Palos Las Palmas - San Salvador Island - Veracruz - Mexico City
Munich 1972	30	5,532	6,000	Olympia - Athens - Thessaloniki - Istanbul - Varna - Bucharest - Timișoara - Belgrade - Budapest - Vienna - Linz - Salzburg - Innsbruck - Garmisch-Partenkirchen - Munich
Montreal 1976	5	775	1,214	Olympia - Athens Ottawa - Montreal
Moscow 1980	31	4,915	5,000	Olympia - Athens - Thessaloniki - Sofia - Bucharest - Kishinev - Vinnytsia - Kiev - Tula - Moscow
Los Angeles 1984	83	15,000	3,636	Olympia - Athens New York – Boston – Philadelphia – Washington – Detroit – Chicago – Indianapolis – Atlanta – St. Louis – Dallas – Denver – Salt Lake City – Seattle – San Francisco – San Diego - Los Angeles
Seoul 1988	26	15,250	1,467	Olympia - Athens Jeju - Busan - Seoul
Barcelona 1992	51	6,307	10,448	Olympia - Athens Empúries - Bilbao - A Coruña - Madrid - Seville Las Palmas - Málaga - Valencia Palma de Mallorca – Barcelona
Atlanta 1996	112	29,016	13,267	Olympia - Athens Los Angeles – Las Vegas – San Francisco – Seattle – Salt Lake City – Denver – Dallas – St. Louis – Minneapolis – Chicago – Detroit - Boston – New York – Philadelphia – Washington – Miami – Birmingham - Atlanta
Sydney 2000	127	27,000	13,300	Olympia - Athens Guam - Palau - Federated States of Micronesia - Nauru - Solomon Islands -Papua New Guinea - Vanuatu - Samoa - American Samoa - Cook Islands - Tonga - Queenstown - Christchurch - Wellington - Rotorua - Auckland - Uluru - Brisbane - Darwin - Perth - Adelaide - Melbourne - Canberra - Sydney
Athens 2004	142	86,000	11,360	Olympia - Marathonas - Athens Sydney - Melbourne - Tokyo - Seoul - Beijing - Delhi - Cairo - Cape Town - Rio de Janeiro - Mexico City - Los Angeles - St. Louis - Atlanta - New York - Montreal - Antwerp - Brussels - Amsterdam - Lausanne - Geneva - Paris - London - Madrid - Barcelona - Rome - Munich - Berlin - Stockholm - Helsinki - Moscow - Kiev - Istanbul - Sofia - Nicosia - Iraklion - Thessaloniki - Patras - Athens
Beijing 2008	130	137,000	21,880	Olympia - Athens - Beijing - Almaty - Istanbul - Saint Petersburg - London – Paris – San Francisco – Buenos Aires – Dar es Salaam – Muscat – Islamabad – New Delhi – Bangkok – Kuala Lumpur – Jakarta – Canberra – Nagano – Seoul – Pyongyang – Ho Chi Minh City – Hong Kong – Macau – Sanya - Wuzhishan - Wanning - Haikou ' – Guangzhou - Shenzhen - Huizhou - Shantou ' – Fuzhou - Quanzhou - Xiamen - Longyan ' – Ruijin - Jinggangshan - Nanchang ' – Wenzhou - Shaoxing - Hangzhou - Ningbo - Jiaxing ' – Shanghai – Suzhou - Nantong - Taizhou - Yangzhou - Nanjing ' – Hefei - Huainan - Wuhu - Jixi - Huangshan ' – Wuhan - Yichang - Jingzhou ' – Yueyang - Changsha - Shaoshan ' – Guilin - Nanning - Baise ' – Kunming - Lijiang - Shangri-La ' – Guiyang - Kaili - Zunyi ' – Chongqing – Ürümqi - Kashgar - Shihezi - Changji ' – Lhasa ' – Golmud - Qinghai Lake - Xining ' – Yuncheng - Pingyao - Taiyuan - Datong ' – Jiuquan – Zhongwei - Wuzhong - Yinchuan ' – Yan'an - Yangling - Xianyang - Xi'an ' – Dunhuang - Jiayuguan - Lanzhou ' – Hohhot - Ordos - Baotou - Chifeng ' – Harbin - Daqing - Qiqihar ' – Changchun - Songyuan - Jilin - Yanji ' – Shenyang - Anshan - Dalian ' –Qingdao - Linyi - Qufu - Tai'an - Jinan ' – Zhengzhou - Kaifeng - Luoyang - Anyang ' – Shijiazhuang - Qinhuangdao - Tangshan ' – Tianjin – Guang'an - Leshan - Chengdu ' – Beijing Sichuan route postponed to the end due to earthquake.
London 2012	70	12,800	8,000	Olympia - Athens - Land's End - Plymouth - Exeter - Taunton - Bristol - Cheltenham - Worcester - Malvern ' - Cardiff - Swansea - Aberystwyth - Bangor ' - Chester - Stoke-on-Trent - Bolton - Liverpool ' - Douglas ' - Portrush - Derry - Newry ' - Dublin - Belfast ' - Glasgow - Inverness - Kirkwall - Lerwick - Stornoway - Aberdeen - Dundee - Edinburgh ' - Alnwick - Newcastle - Durham - Middlesbrough - Hull - York - Carlisle - Bowness-on-Windermere - Blackpool - Manchester - Leeds - Sheffield - Cleethorpes - Lincoln - Nottingham - Derby - Birmingham - Coventry - Leicester - Peterborough - Norwich - Ipswich - Chelmsford - Cambridge - Luton - Oxford - Reading - Basingstoke - Winchester - Salisbury - Weymouth and Portland - Bournemouth - Southampton ' - Saint Peter Port ' - Saint Helier ' - Portsmouth - Brighton and Hove - Brighton - Hastings - Dover - Maidstone - Guildford - London '
Rio de Janeiro 2016	106	20,000	12,000	Olympia - Athens - Lausanne - Geneva - Brasilia ' - Goiânia ' - Belo Horizonte ' - Vitória ' - Salvador ' - Aracaju ' - Maceió ' - Recife ' - Joao Pessoa ' - Natal ' - Fernando de Noronha - Fortaleza ' - Teresina ' - Palmas ' - São Luís ' - Belém ' - Macapá ' - Boa Vista ' - Manaus ' - Rio Branco ' - Porto Velho ' - Cuiabá ' - Campo Grande '- Porto Alegre ' - Florianópolis ' - Curitiba ' - São Paulo ' - Rio de Janeiro
Tokyo 2020	111	-	-	Olympia - Athens - Fukushima - Utsunomiya - Maebashi - Nagano - Gifu - Tokyo Irregular period, relay in Greece started on 12 March 2020 in Ancient Olympia, then curtailed in Sparta the next day, and later finished in Athens without spectators on 19 March 2020, the relay went later suspended on 25 March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic after the Olympics postponed to 2021. Japan relay will start on 25 March 2021 in Naraha and will end on 23 July 2021 during the opening ceremony.
Paris 2024	-	-	-	Olympia – Paris
Los Angeles 2028	-	-	-	Olympia – Los Angeles

Winter Olympic Games

Site of the Olympic Games	Days	Total length	Total number of torchbearers	Route
Oslo 1952	2	225	94	Morgedal – Oslo
Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956	5			Rome - Venice – Cortina d'Ampezzo
Squaw Valley 1960	19	960	700	Morgedal – Oslo - Los Angeles – Fresno – Squaw Valley
Innsbruck 1964	8			Olympia – Athens Vienna – Innsbruck
Grenoble 1968	50	7,222	5,000	Olympia – Athens Paris – Strasbourg – Lyon – Bordeaux – Toulouse – Marseille – Nice – Chamonix – Grenoble
Sapporo 1972	38	18,741	16,300	Olympia – Athens Okinawa Tokyo – Sapporo
Innsbruck 1976	6	1,618		Olympia – Athens Vienna Linz – Salzburg – Innsbruck Graz – Klagenfurt – Innsbruck
Lake Placid 1980	15	12,824	52	Olympia – Athens Shannon Langley Air Force Base, Hampton – Washington – Baltimore – Philadelphia – New York – Albany – Lake Placid
Sarajevo 1984	11	5,289	1,600	Olympia – Athens Dubrovnik Split – Ljubljana – Zagreb - Sarajevo Skopje – Novi Sad – Belgrade – Sarajevo
Calgary 1988	95	18,000	6,250	Olympia – Athens St. John’s, Newfoundland – Québec City – Montreal – Ottawa – Toronto – Winnipeg – Inuvik – Vancouver – Edmonton – Calgary
Albertville 1992	58	5,500	5,500	Olympia – Athens Paris – Nantes – Le Havre – Lille – Strasbourg – Limoges – Bordeaux – Toulouse – Ajaccio – Nice – Marseille – Lyon – Grenoble – Albertville
Lillehammer 1994	82	12,000	7,000	Olympia – Athens – Copenhagen – Stockholm – Oslo – Lillehammer '
Nagano 1998	51	3,486	6,901	Olympia – Athens Tokyo Hokkaidō – Chiba – Tokyo – Nagano Okinawa – Hiroshima – Kyoto – Nagano Kagoshima – Osaka – Shizuoka – Nagano
Salt Lake City 2002	85	21,275	12,012	Olympia – Athens Atlanta – Charleston, South Carolina - Jacksonville, Florida - St. Augustine, Florida – Orlando, Florida - Miami – Mobile, Alabama – Biloxi, Mississippi – New Orleans - Houston – San Antonio – Austin, Texas - Dallas – Little Rock, Arkansas - Memphis - Nashville, Tennessee – Louisville, Kentucky – Cincinnati– Pittsburgh – Cumberland, Maryland – Washington, D.C. – Baltimore – Philadelphia – New York - Hartford, Connecticut – Providence, Rhode Island - Boston – Burlington, Vermont - Lake Placid – Syracuse - Cleveland - Columbus, Ohio – Chicago – Milwaukee - Detroit – Fort Wayne, Indiana – Indianapolis – Lexington – St. Louis - Kansas City – Omaha – Wichita - Oklahoma City – Amarillo - Albuquerque - Phoenix – Los Angeles – San Francisco – Squaw Valley – Reno – Portland – Seattle – Juneau – Boise – Bozeman – Cheyenne – Denver – Salt Lake City
Turin 2006	75	11,300	10,000	Olympia – Athens Rome – Florence – Genoa – Cagliari - Valletta – Palermo – Naples – Bari – Ancona – San Marino – Bologna – Venice – Trieste - Koper - Klagenfurt - Trento – Cortina d'Ampezzo – Milan - Lugano - Bardonecchia – Albertville - Turin
Vancouver 2010	106	45,000+	12,000+	Olympia – Athens Victoria, British Columbia – Yukon – Northwest Territories – Alberta – Saskatchewan – Manitoba – Nunavut – Quebec – Newfoundland and Labrador – Nova Scotia – Prince Edward Island – New Brunswick – Quebec – Ontario – Manitoba – Saskatchewan – Alberta – Washington – Vancouver
Sochi 2014	123	65,000	14,000+	Olympia – Amaliada - Elis - Pyrgos - Zacharo - Kalo Nero - Tripoli - Levidi - Lefkasi - Kalavryta - Patras - Rio - Missolonghi - Agrinio - Karpenisi - Lamia - Volos - Larissa - Katerini - Thessaloniki - Giannitsa - Naousa - Edessa - Florina - Kastoria - Grevena - Ioannina - Kalabaka - Trikala - Karditsa - Lamia - Amfissa - Delphi - Arachova - Livadeia - Athens - Moscow - Kolomna - Odintsovo - Arkhangelskoye - Krasnogorsk - Dmitrov - Saint Petersburg – Kaliningrad – Murmansk – Arkhangelsk – Yakutsk – Vladivostok – Irkutsk – Novosibirsk – Kazan – Nizhny Novgorod – Volgograd – Rostov-on-Don – Astrakhan – Grozny – Sochi
Pyeongchang 2018	101	2,018	7,500	Olympia – Athens - Incheon – Jeju – Busan – Ulsan – Geoje - Tongyeong - Changwon - Changnyeong - Sacheon ' – Yeosu - Suncheon - Gangjin - Mokpo - Damyang - Gokseong ' – Muju - Jeonju ' – Buyeo ' – Daejeon – Sejong – Osong – Jincheon - Chungju - Danyang ' – Bonghwa - Andong ' – Daegu – Pohang ' – Suwon ' – Seoul – Paju - Yeoncheon ' – Hwacheon - Goseong - Hwacheon - Hwacheon - Hoengseong - Samcheok - Jeongseon - Pyeongchang
Beijing 2022	-	-	-	Olympia – Beijing
Milan–Cortina d'Ampezzo 2026	-	-	-	Olympia – Milan

Youth Summer Olympic Games

Site of the Olympic Games	Days	Total length	Total number of torchbearers	Route
Singapore 2010	22	26,700+	2,400+	Olympia – Berlin - Dakar - Mexico City - Auckland - Seoul - Singapore
Nanjing 2014	108		104	Athens - 258 different online locations from the 204 participating NOCs - Nanjing
Buenos Aires 2018	63	14,000	-	Athens - La Plata ' - Parana ' - Santa Fe ' - Iguazu ' - Corrientes ' - Jujuy ' - Salta ' - Catamarca ' - La Rioja ' - Mendoza ' - San Juan ' - Cordoba ' - Neuquen ' - Bariloche ' - Ushuaia ' - Buenos Aires '
Dakar 2022	-	-	-	Athens - Dakar

Youth Winter Olympic Games

Site of the Olympic Games	Days	Total length	Total number of torchbearers	Route
Innsbruck 2012	18	3,573	2,012	Olympia - Innsbruck - Bregenz - St. Anton am Arlberg - Lienz - Klagenfurt - Semmering - Wien - Graz - Eisenstadt - St. Pölten - Linz - Salzburg - Schladming - Seefeld in Tirol - Kühtai - Kufstein - Innsbruck
Lillehammer 2016	74	-	-	Athens - Lillehammer - Alta - Oslo - Gjøvik - Otta - Elverum - Trysil - Lillehammer
Lausanne 2020	110	-	-	Athens - Lausanne - Morges - Nyon – Yverdon-les-Bains - Payerne - Aigle - Ollon - University of Lausanne - Échallens - Château-d'Œx - Prilly - Bourg-en-Lavaux - Lausanne - Geneva - Neuchâtel - Lausanne
Gangwon 2024	-	-	-	Athens - Chuncheon