Venues of the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics

The 2016 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXI Olympiad, will be an international multi-sport event held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from August 5 to August 21, 2016.^{[n 1]}^[1] The 2016 Summer Paralympics, officially known as the Games of the XV Paralympiad, will be an international multi-sport event held in Rio de Janeiro from September 7 to September 18, 2016. Events will take place at ten existing venues without permanent works required, eight existing venues needing works, nine new venues constructed for the Summer Games, and seven temporary venues that will be removed following the games.^[2] In addition, four venues outside Rio de Janeiro will host football events, in the cities of Brasília, Salvador and São Paulo.^[2]

Rio de Janeiro won its bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics on October 2, 2009.^[1] Days later, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided to include golf and rugby sevens in the Olympic program.^[3] Thus, the newly formed Rio de Janeiro Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (COJOR) proposed São Januário Stadium to stage the Rugby sevens tournament.^[4] The International Rugby Board (IRB) approved the proposed venue,^[4] while the International Golf Federation (IGF) worked with the organising committee to approve construction for a new course.

The Rio OC is planning to hold all the competitions inside the city, in four Olympic clusters—Barra, Copacabana, Deodoro, and Maracanã—as was done in the 2007 Pan American Games.^[5]^[6] Several of the venues will be located at the Barra Cluster Olympic Park.^[2] The largest venue at the games in terms of seating capacity is the Maracanã Stadium, officially known as Jornalista Mário Filho Stadium, which can hold 90,000 spectators and will be the site for the opening and closing ceremonies as well as football finals.^[2]

For the first time the Opening and Closing Ceremonies for the Summer Olympics are not to be held in the same place as athletics events and all gymnastics events will take place in same arena.