The sixth series of Race Across the World began airing on 2 April 2026. The racers start from Palermo in Sicily, and travel 12,000km across Europe and Asia to finish in Hatgal by Lake Hövsgöl in Mongolia. The five pairs of contestants are Jo & Kush,...
Race Across the World is a British television competition programme, in which teams of two race across an area of the world to become the fastest to reach a destination using any means of transportation other than air travel. For the journey, each...
The first series of Race Across the World first aired on BBC Two from 3 March to 7 April 2019. Five pairs of racers travelled from London to Singapore, with the contestants each given £1,329 for the whole race without using air transport. The racers...
The third series of Race Across the World began airing on 22 March 2023. Unlike the transcontinental races in previous series, the race took place entirely in Canada between Vancouver, British Columbia and St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Celebrity Race Across the World is a spin-off series of Race Across the World, where pairs of competitors race across an area of the world to reach a destination using any means of transportation other than by air. It uses a similar format to Race...
The fourth series of Race Across the World began airing on 10 April 2024. Each two-person team was required to complete the 15,000 kilometres (9,300 mi) route from Japan to Indonesia without using air travel, and was given a budget equal to the cost...
The fifth series of Race Across the World began airing on 23 April 2025. Each two-person team was required to complete the 14,000 kilometres (8,700 mi) route from China to India without using air travel with a budget equivalent to the cost of the...
The second series of Race Across the World began airing on 8 March 2020 with five teams setting off from Chapultepec Castle in Mexico City in a race to the most southerly city in the world, Ushuaia in Argentina, covering a distance of 25,000 km in 2...
The third series of Celebrity Race Across the World was a race over 5,900 kilometres (3,700 mi) across Central America, starting in Isla Mujeres, Mexico and finishing in the Península de La Guajira, Colombia. It is the eighth overall series in the...
The first series of Celebrity Race Across the World was first announced on 3 October 2019, but production was subsequently delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 27 July 2023, the BBC announced that the delayed celebrity version would air later...
