NFL 2026 Miles Traveled - All Teams Ranked: Schedule Release Set; 49ers Lead Way
The NFL schedule comes out on Thursday (May 14) but we already know that the San Francisco 49ers will set an NFL record for miles traveled by a league franchise. Our NFL Teams 2026 Miles Traveled analysis shows that that the NFL is headed for a record season when it comes to overall miles traveled thanks to nine international games.
The 49ers will cover 38,105 miles thanks to the NFL season-opener against the LA Rams in Melbourne, Australia, and a "home game" in Mexico City. The Australia game takes place on September 10 in the United States and will be stream on Netflix.
The game against the Rams in Australia adds 15,738 linear miles round trip. And the visit to Mexico City adds another 3,854 miles to what would normally be a home game. The trip to Australia covers a whopping 34 time zones round trip. Melbourne will be 17 hours ahead of U.S. Pacific Standard Time when that game in played on September 11th Down Under.
In all, the 58 time zones crossed by the Niners will also crush the record of 42, also set by the Bolts last year.
The NFL season begins on Wednesday, Sept. 8, when the host Seattle Seahawks celebrate their Super Bowl 60 championship. One potential opponent: the New England Patriots. Seattle beat New England 29-13 in the Super Bowl. The Patriots offseason has been rocked by reports of a relationship between head coach Mike Vrabel and former NFL reporter Dianna Russini.
Our round-trip distances are determined by using Google Earth coordinates from stadium-to-stadium and then calculated using the WGS-84 ellipsoidal Earth model. That is used for GPS and includes the curvature of the earth, as opposed to measuring in a straight line.
49ers Miles Traveled: NFL Record At Risk
Here's NFL Teams 2026 Miles Traveled breakdown for each 49ers game:
49ers Miles Traveled in 2026
Total air miles for all San Francisco 49ers road trips — regular season 2026, including international games.
The NFL may well set up their schedule to eat into some of those trips, but this is where things stand pre-schedule release.
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'Home Team' Designation Puts 49ers Over Top
The 49ers have road games in Kansas City, Arizona, Dallas, Atlanta and at the New York Giants. The Niners break the record set in 2025 by the Chargers (37,086 miles) by more than 1,000 miles. Bookies.com first reported the total number once the 49ers' two international games were announced ahead of our NFL Teams 2026 Miles Traveled list.
The Niners having that "Home Game" in Mexico City is the major difference maker this season. The 49ers are the visiting team for the game in Australia for the Rams, thus their normal regular-season trip to play the Rams at SoFi is not included above.
The Rams will cover 31,279.15 miles in all, including their trip Down Under and road games at Philadelphia and Washington.
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NFL 2026 International Games
The full schedule of NFL games played outside the United States in 2026 — venues, matchups & dates.
NFL Set To Shatter All-Time League Miles Record
NFL Teams 2026 Miles Traveled number will also break the overall mark of 625,947 miles set last season. This is thanks to a record number of 9 international games. In addition to the games mentioned above in Australia and Mexico, The Shield visits Paris this season for the first time. The Saints are the home team in that game. Other international games will be played in London, Munich, Rio de Janeiro, and Madrid.
Currently, the league's teams are set to travel 570,004 miles. But that's before seven of the nine overseas games have their designated both opponents.
Los Angeles Chargers covered more miles last season than any NFL team in history. Thanks to a Week 1 round-trip to Brazil and six Eastern Time Zone games, the Bolts traversed 37,086 miles last season, traversing 42 time zones and toying with jet lag along the way.
Not only is that an NFL record, it was more regular-season mileage than all but 3 MLB teams this past season.
Overall, 7 NFL teams traveled more miles than it takes to go around the world last season. The distance around Earth at the equator is 24,901 miles. The teams going "around the world" and more in 2025-26 are the Chargers, Los Angeles Rams, Seattle Seahawks, San Francisco 49ers, Atlanta Falcons, and Indianapolis Colts. The Seahawks and 49ers did not leave the continental United States.
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