PDC World Darts Championship 2026-27: Dec. 11 to Jan. 3 Dates, Alexandra Palace, US Times

The PDC World Darts Championship 2026-27 runs from Friday, Dec. 11, 2026 to Sunday, Jan. 3, 2027 at Alexandra Palace in London, according to Sky Sports and the venue’s own page. The Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) runs the event. The day-by-day schedule, session start times and the draw are not yet announced, so this story gives the confirmed dates, a day-by-day calendar and a time-zone converter for the times the PDC has yet to post.

World Darts Championship 2026-27 dates and the Jan. 3 final

Sky Sports reported on Aug. 6, 2026: “The Paddy Power PDC World Championship dates have been confirmed for Friday December 11 to Sunday January 3 with a record 180,000 tickets on offer.” Alexandra Palace’s event page says the tournament “returns to Alexandra Palace from 11 December 2026 to 3 January 2027” and lists “Doors open 19:00”. The final falls on the last day, Sunday, Jan. 3, 2027, which Sky Sports describes as a Sunday final.

The tournament will be held in Alexandra Palace’s Great Hall for the first time, Sky Sports says. Sky Sports reported in December 2025 that Alexandra Palace will remain the home of the World Darts Championship until 2031.

Day-by-day calendar, Dec. 11 to Jan. 3

Sky Sports says “there will also be the usual Christmas break between December 24-27 with the tournament concluding after New Year’s Eve.” Neither source says what is played on each day, so the table shows the window and the break only.

Date	Marked
Fri., Dec. 11	First day
Sat., Dec. 12
Sun., Dec. 13
Mon., Dec. 14
Tue., Dec. 15
Wed., Dec. 16
Thu., Dec. 17
Fri., Dec. 18
Sat., Dec. 19
Sun., Dec. 20
Mon., Dec. 21
Tue., Dec. 22
Wed., Dec. 23
Thu., Dec. 24	Christmas break (Sky Sports)
Fri., Dec. 25	Christmas break (Sky Sports)
Sat., Dec. 26	Christmas break (Sky Sports)
Sun., Dec. 27	Christmas break (Sky Sports)
Mon., Dec. 28
Tue., Dec. 29
Wed., Dec. 30
Thu., Dec. 31
Fri., Jan. 1
Sat., Jan. 2
Sun., Jan. 3	Final

Put the dates on the December 2026 printable calendar and the January 2027 printable calendar.

What time is the World Darts Championship in the US?

Not yet announced. London is on Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) for the whole tournament, and U.S. Eastern Time (ET) is on Eastern Standard Time (EST), 5 hours behind. Pacific Time (PT) is 8 hours behind.

The venue’s “Doors open 19:00” is 7:00 p.m. GMT, which is 2:00 p.m. ET and 11:00 a.m. PT. That is the doors time, not a session start time.

Converter for session times once the PDC posts them (examples only, not the schedule)

London (GMT)	ET	PT
1:00 p.m.	8:00 a.m.	5:00 a.m.
7:00 p.m.	2:00 p.m.	11:00 a.m.
8:00 p.m.	3:00 p.m.	12:00 p.m.

Where to watch the World Darts Championship

Sky Sports is the UK broadcaster, according to Sky Sports’ Aug. 6 report. A U.S. and Canada broadcaster is not yet announced.

Who is the defending champion?

Luke Littler beat Gian van Veen 7-1 in the final on Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026, according to Sky Sports’ results page. RTÉ called it his second world title.

What do we know about tickets, the field and prize money?

Alexandra Palace says that for the first time, tickets were allocated through a ballot, and “The Ballot has now closed.” Ticket prices are not yet announced, nor are the field size, the qualifiers and the prize money.

For comparison, the 2025-26 event had a £5 million prize fund with £1 million for the winner, according to Sky Sports’ results page. Round one ran Dec. 11-19, the semi-finals were on Friday, Jan. 2, and the final was on Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026. Those are last year’s figures, not this year’s.

Free World Darts Championship 2026-27 tracker

The printable lists each day from Fri., Dec. 11 to Sun., Jan. 3 with a blank for the session time and the result, and marks the Dec. 24-27 Christmas break. Its source note names Sky Sports and Alexandra Palace. For more darts, see the Grand Slam of Darts 2026 dates, and for other sport across time zones the Six Nations 2027 fixtures and kick-off times.