The season will start on the icy tarmac roads in Monte Carlo from 21-24 January before rounds in the snow in Sweden and vast landscapes of Safari Rally Kenya.
Three tarmac events in a row then take place in Croatia, the Canary Islands and Japan, before the Acropolis Rally in Greece.
The WRC’s Italian round moves from September to July, and will switch from the gravel roads of Sardinia to tarmac in Rome.
The high-speed events in Estonia and Finland retain their back-to-back summer slots before the USA hosts its first WRC round in 39 years from 26-29 August.
The WRC last held a points-paying round in the USA at the Olympus Rally in 1988, and the championship will return as a gravel round after a successful candidate event in June.
Rally Scotland takes place in early October before a South American double-header, in Paraguay and Chile, and Rally Saudi Arabia round out the calendar.
A Saudi Arabia race was set to end the 2026 season but it was cancelled because of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
Rally de Portugal will not feature in the 2027 calendar but is in talks to return in 2028.
The upcoming season will mark a new era for the sport with the introduction of a new promoter along with WRC27 regulations which will limit costs and reduce the horsepower of the top cars.
It will also mark the return of Ford as a manufacturer to the sport in a collaboration with the M-Sport banner.
2027 World Rally Championship calendar
Rallye Monte-Carlo 21-24 January
Rally Sweden 18-21 February
Safari Rally Kenya 18-21 March
Croatia Rally 8-11 April
Rally Islas Canarias 6-9 May
Rally Japan 3-6 June
Acropolis Rally Greece 24-27 June
Rally Italia Roma 8-11 July
Rally Estonia 22-25 July
Rally Finland 29 July-1 August
Rally US 26-29 August
Rally Scotland 30 September-3 October
Rally del Paraguay 21-24 October
Rally Chile 4-7 October
Rally Saudi Arabia 25-28 November
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