| # |
Host City |
Country |
Year |
Activities |
| 1st | Paris | France | 1894 | Athens selected as the host for the 1896 Summer Olympics. Paris selected as the host for the 1900 Summer Olympics.[1] |
| 2nd | Athens | Greece | 1896 | Pierre de Coubertin elected President of the IOC. |
| 3rd | Le Havre | France | 1897 | |
| 4th | Paris | France | 1901 | St.Louis selected as the host for the 1904 Summer Olympics.[1] |
| 5th[2] | Paris | France | 1903 | |
| 6th[2] | London | United Kingdom | 1904 | London selected as the host for the 1908 Summer Olympics.[1] |
| 7th | Brussels | Belgium | 1905 | |
| 8th | Athens | Greece | 1906 | |
| 9th | The Hague | Netherlands | 1907 | |
| 10th | Berlin | Germany[2] | 1909 | Stockholm selected as the host for the 1912 Summer Olympics.[1] |
| 11th | Luxembourg City | Luxembourg | 1910 | |
| 12th | Budapest | Austria-Hungary | 1911 | |
| 13th | Basel | Switzerland | 1912 | |
| 14th | Stockholm | Sweden | 1912 | Berlin selected to host the 1916 Summer Olympics.[1] |
| 15th | Lausanne | Switzerland | 1913 | |
| 16th | Paris | France | 1914 | |
| All international Olympic business was suspended from 1915 to 1918 due to World War I. |
| 17th | Lausanne | Switzerland | 1919 | Antwerp selected to host the 1920 Summer Olympics.[1] |
| 18th | Antwerp | Belgium | 1920 | |
| 19th | Lausanne | Switzerland | 1921 | Chamonix selected to host the 1924 Winter Olympics. Paris selected to host the 1924 Summer Olympics. Amsterdam selected to host the 1928 Summer Olympics.[1] |
| 20th | Paris | France | 1922 | |
| 21st | Rome | Italy | 1923 | Los Angeles selected to host the 1932 Summer Olympics.[1] |
| 22nd | Paris | France | 1924 | |
| 23rd | Prague | Czechoslovakia | 1925 | Henri de Baillet-Latour elected President of the IOC. |
| 24th | Lisbon | Portugal | 1926 | St. Moritz selected to host the 1928 Winter Olympics.[1] |
| 25th | Monte Carlo | Monaco | 1927 | |
| 26th | Amsterdam | Netherlands | 1928 | |
| 27th | Lausanne | Switzerland | 1929 | Lake Placid selected to host the 1932 Winter Olympics.[1] |
| 28th | Berlin | Germany | 1930 | |
| 29th | Barcelona | Spain | 1931 | Berlin selected to host the 1936 Summer Olympics.[1] |
| 30th | Los Angeles | United States | 1932 | |
| 31st | Vienna | Austria | 1933 | Garmisch-Partenkirchen selected to host the 1936 Winter Olympics.[1] |
| 32nd | Athens | Greece | 1934 | |
| 33rd | Oslo | Norway | 1935 | |
| 34th | Garmisch-Partenkirchen | Germany | 1936 | |
| 35th | Berlin | Germany | 1936 | Tokyo selected to host the 1940 Summer Olympics.[1] |
| 36th | Warsaw | Poland | 1937 | Sapporo selected to host the 1940 Winter Olympics.[1] |
| 37th | Cairo | Egypt | 1938 | |
| 38th | London | United Kingdom | 1939 | Garmisch-Partenkirchen selected to host the 1940 Winter Olympics. Cortina d'Ampezzo selected to host the 1944 Winter Olympics. London selected to host the 1944 Summer Olympics.[1] |
| All international Olympic business was suspended from 1940 to 1945 due to World War II. |
| 39th | Lausanne | Switzerland | 1946 | St. Moritz selected to host the 1948 Winter Olympics. London selected to host the 1948 Summer Olympics.[1] J. Sigfrid Edström elected President of the IOC. |
| 40th | Stockholm | Sweden | 1947 | Oslo selected to host the 1952 Winter Olympics. Helsinki selected to host the 1952 Summer Olympics.[1] |
| 41st | St. Moritz | Switzerland | 1948 | |
| 42nd | London | United Kingdom | 1948 | |
| 43rd | Rome | Italy | 1949 | Cortina d'Ampezzo selected to host the 1956 Winter Olympics. Melbourne selected to host the 1956 Summer Olympics.[1] |
| 44th | Copenhagen | Denmark | 1950 | |
| 45th[2] | Vienna | Austria | 1951 | |
| 46th | Oslo | Norway | 1952 | |
| 47th | Helsinki | Finland | 1952 | Avery Brundage elected President of the IOC.[3] |
| 48th | Mexico City | Mexico | 1953 | |
| 49th | Athens | Greece | 1954 | |
| 50th | Paris | France | 1955 | Squaw Valley selected to host the 1960 Winter Olympics. Rome selected to host the 1960 Summer Olympics.[1] |
| 51st | Cortina d'Ampezzo | Italy | 1956 | |
| 52nd | Melbourne | Australia | 1956 | |
| 53rd | Sofia | Bulgaria | 1957 | |
| 54th | Tokyo | Japan | 1958 | |
| 55th | Munich | West Germany | 1959 | Innsbruck selected to host the 1964 Winter Olympics. Tokyo selected to host the 1964 Summer Olympics.[1] Luge added to the program in 1964.[4] |
| 56th | San Francisco | United States | 1960 | |
| 57th | Rome | Italy | 1960 | |
| 58th | Athens | Greece | 1961 | |
| 59th | Moscow | Soviet Union | 1962 | |
| 60th | Baden-Baden | West Germany | 1963 | Mexico City selected to host the 1968 Summer Olympics.[1] |
| 61st | Innsbruck | Austria | 1964 | Grenoble selected to host the 1968 Winter Olympics.[1] |
| 62nd | Tokyo | Japan | 1964 | |
| 63rd | Madrid | Spain | 1965 | |
| 64th | Rome | Italy | 1966 | Sapporo selected to host the 1972 Winter Olympics. Munich selected to host the 1972 Summer Olympics.[1] |
| 65th | Tehran | Iran | 1967 | |
| 66th | Grenoble | France | 1968 | |
| 67th | Mexico City | Mexico | 1968 | |
| 68th | Warsaw | Poland | 1969 | |
| 69th[5] | Amsterdam | Netherlands | 1970 | Denver selected to host the 1976 Winter Olympics. Montreal selected to host the 1976 Summer Olympics.[1] |
| 70th | Amsterdam | Netherlands | 1970 | |
| 71st[5] | Luxembourg City | Luxembourg | 1971 | |
| 72nd | Sapporo | Japan | 1972 | |
| 73rd | Munich | West Germany | 1972 | Lord Killanin elected President of the IOC.[6] |
| 74th | Varna | Bulgaria | 1973 | |
| 75th | Vienna | Austria | 1974 | Lake Placid selected to host the 1980 Winter Olympics. Moscow selected to host the 1980 Summer Olympics.[1] |
| 76th | Lausanne | Switzerland | 1975 | |
| 77th | Innsbruck | Austria | 1976 | |
| 78th | Montreal | Canada | 1976 | |
| 79th | Prague | Czechoslovakia | 1977 | |
| 80th | Athens | Greece | 1978 | Sarajevo selected to host the 1984 Winter Olympics. Los Angeles selected to host the 1984 Summer Olympics.[1] |
| 81st | Montevideo | Uruguay | 1979 | |
| 82nd | Lake Placid | United States | 1980 | |
| 83rd | Moscow | Soviet Union | 1980 | Juan Antonio Samaranch elected President of the IOC.[7] |
| 84th | Baden-Baden | West Germany | 1981 | Calgary selected to host the 1988 Winter Olympics. Seoul selected to host the 1988 Summer Olympics.[1] Tennis readmitted to the Olympic program in 1988.[4] |
| 85th | Rome | Italy | 1982 | |
| 86th | New Delhi | India | 1983 | |
| 87th | Sarajevo | Yugoslavia | 1984 | |
| 88th | Los Angeles | United States | 1984 | |
| 89th | Lausanne | Switzerland | 1984 | |
| 90th | East Berlin | East Germany | 1985 | |
| 91st | Lausanne | Switzerland | 1986 | Barcelona selected to host the 1992 Summer Olympics.[8] Albertville selected to host the 1992 Winter Olympics.[1] Changed on separating Summer and Winter games in alternating even-years beginning from 1994. |
| 92nd | Istanbul | Turkey | 1987 | |
| 93rd | Calgary | Canada | 1988 | |
| 94th | Seoul | South Korea | 1988 | Lillehammer selected to host the 1994 Winter Olympics[8] |
| 95th | San Juan | Puerto Rico | 1989 | Demonstration sports were removed from the Olympic program beginning from 1994.[4] |
| 96th | Tokyo | Japan | 1990 | Atlanta selected to host the 1996 Summer Olympics.[8] |
| 97th | Birmingham | United Kingdom | 1991 | Nagano selected to host the 1998 Winter Olympics.[8] Curling and snowboarding added to the Olympic program in 1998.[4] |
| 98th | Albertville | France | 1992 | |
| 99th | Barcelona | Spain | 1992 | |
| 100th | Lausanne | Switzerland | 1993 | |
| 101st | Monte Carlo | Monaco | 1993 | Sydney selected to host the 2000 Summer Olympics.[8] Beach Volleyball added to the Olympic program in 1996.[9] |
| 102nd | Lillehammer | Norway | 1994 | |
| 103rd | Paris | France | 1994 | |
| 104th | Budapest | Hungary | 1995 | Salt Lake City selected to host the 2002 Winter Olympics.[8] |
| 105th | Atlanta | United States | 1996 | |
| 106th | Lausanne | Switzerland | 1997 | Athens selected to host the 2004 Summer Olympics.[8] |
| 107th | Nagano | Japan | 1998 | |
| 108th | Lausanne | Switzerland | 1999 | |
| 109th | Seoul | South Korea | 1999 | Turin selected to host the 2006 Winter Olympics.[8] |
| 110th | Lausanne | Switzerland | 1999 | |
| 111th | Sydney | Australia | 2000 | |
| 112th | Moscow | Russia | 2001 | Beijing selected to host the 2008 Summer Olympics.[8] Jacques Rogge elected President of the IOC.[10] |
| 113th | Salt Lake City | United States | 2002 | |
| 114th | Mexico City | Mexico | 2002 | |
| 115th | Prague | Czech Republic | 2003 | Vancouver selected to host the 2010 Winter Olympics.[8] |
| 116th | Athens | Greece | 2004 | |
| 117th | Singapore | Singapore | 2005 | London selected to host the 2012 Summer Olympics. Baseball and softball removed from the Olympic program in 2012. |
| 118th | Turin | Italy | 2006 | |
| 119th | Guatemala City | Guatemala | 2007 | Sochi selected to host the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Creation of the Youth Olympics.
Singapore selected to host the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics. |
| 120th | Beijing | China | 2008 | |
| 121st | Copenhagen | Denmark | 2009 | Rio de Janeiro selected to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. Golf and rugby readmitted to the Olympic program in 2016. |
| 122nd | Vancouver | Canada | 2010 | Nanjing selected to host the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics. |
| 123rd | Durban | South Africa | 2011 | Pyeongchang selected to host the 2018 Winter Olympics. |
| 124th | London | United Kingdom | 2012 | |
| 125th | Buenos Aires | Argentina | 2013 | Tokyo selected to host the 2020 Summer Olympics. Wrestling selected for Olympic program for 2020 and 2024. Thomas Bach elected to succeed Jacques Rogge as IOC President. |
| 126th | Sochi | Russia | 2014 | Discussions on ideas that will eventually form a strategic roadmap for the future of the Olympic Movement, the so-called Olympic Agenda 2020 initiated by IOC President Thomas Bach last year.[11] |
| 127th | Monte Carlo | Monaco | 2014 | Extraordinary session hosted by IOC member Albert II, Prince of Monaco. The IOC discussed IOC President Thomas Bach's "Olympic Agenda 2020."[12] |
| 128th | Kuala Lumpur | Malaysia | 2015 | Beijing selected to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. Lausanne selected to host the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics. |
| 129th | Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | 2016 | 5 new sports for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo were approved.[13] |
| Future sessions |
| 130th | Lima | Peru | 2017 | 2024 Summer Olympics and 2023 Summer Youth Olympics host to be announced. |
| 131st | Pyeongchang | South Korea | 2018 | |
| 132nd | | | 2019 | 2026 Winter Olympics and 2025 Winter Youth Olympics host to be announced. |
| 133rd | Tokyo | Japan | 2020 | |
| 134th | | | 2021 | 2028 Summer Olympics and 2027 Summer Youth Olympics host to be announced. |
| 135th | Beijing | China | 2022 | |