The 2026 NFL schedule is here! After months of planning, debate and deliberation, the league officially unveiled its 272-game slate on Thursday night in prime-time fashion.
With the release comes a Wednesday night kickoff game between the Seahawks and the Patriots, a record nine (!) International Series contests with eight different teams playing host, a brand-new Thanksgiving Eve bout, three Turkey Day matchups , the fourth annual Black Friday showdown and a Christmas tripleheader. Combine that with all 32 clubs playing 17 games apiece over 18 weeks, and you’ve got yourself a whole lot of football to look forward to in 2026 …
… and a whole lot of travel.
Over the course of the upcoming season, the NFL will play games in eight different countries—so we calculated the air miles that each team is expected to travel from September to January, which comes to a staggering league-wide total of 630,824.
For further context, we used distance.to as our source and measured each road trip city-to-city, including…