Worldcon History

A comprehensive list of past Worldcons including attendance/membership figures when available is maintained by the WSFS Formulation of Long List Entries Committee and can be found here.

The most recent Worldcons have been (and will be) as follows:

Year Convention Location
2026 Worldcon 84, LAcon V Anaheim, CA, USA
2025 Worldcon 83, Seattle Worldcon 2025, Building Yesterday’s Future — For Everyone Seattle, WA, USA
2024 Worldcon 82, Glasgow 2024, A Worldcon For Our Futures Glasgow, Scotland
2023 Worldcon 81, Chengdu Worldcon 2023 Chengdu, China
2022 Worldcon 80, Chicon 8 Chicago, IL, USA
2021 Worldcon 79, DisCon III Washington, DC, USA
2020 Worldcon 78, CoNZealand Wellington, New Zealand
2019 Worldcon 77, Dublin 2019: An Irish Worldcon Dublin, Ireland
2018 Worldcon 76 in San José San José, CA, USA
2017 Worldcon 75 Helsinki, Finland
2016 Worldcon 74, MidAmeriCon II Kansas City, MO, USA
2015 Worldcon 73, Sasquan Spokane, WA, USA
2014 Worldcon 72, Loncon 3 London, UK
2013 Worldcon 71, LoneStarCon 3 San Antonio, TX, USA
2012 Worldcon 70, Chicon 7 Chicago, IL, USA
2011 Worldcon 69, Renovation Reno, NV, USA
2010 Worldcon 68, Aussiecon 4 Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2009 Worldcon 67, Anticipation Montréal, QC, Canada
2008 Worldcon 66, Denvention 3 Denver, CO, USA
2007 Worldcon 65, Nippon 2007 Yokohama, Japan
2006 Worldcon 64, L.A.con IV Anaheim, CA, USA
2005 Worldcon 63, Interaction Glasgow, Scotland
2004 Worldcon 62, Noreascon 4 Boston, MA, USA
2003 Worldcon 61, Torcon 3 Toronto, ON, Canada
2002 Worldcon 60, ConJosé San José, CA, USA
2001 Worldcon 59, The Millennium Philcon Philadelphia, PA, USA
2000 Worldcon 58, Chicon 2000 Chicago, IL, USA
1999 Worldcon 57, Aussiecon Three Melbourne, VIC, Australia
1998 Worldcon 56, BucConeer Baltimore, MD, USA
1997 Worldcon 55, LoneStarCon 2 San Antonio, TX, USA
1996 Worldcon 54, L.A.con III Anaheim, CA, USA
1995 Worldcon 53, Intersection Glasgow, Scotland
1994 Worldcon 52, ConAdian Winnipeg, MN, Canada
1993 Worldcon 51, ConFrancisco San Francisco, CA, USA
1992 Worldcon 50, Magicon Orlando, FL, USA

Note that each Worldcon is an independent entity responsible for maintaining its own web site, and that worldcon.org does not archive past Worldcons’ sites. The FANAC Fan History Site does attempt to archive past Worldcons’ web sites.