All Overwatch 2 Seasons: Complete List & Dates (2022–2026)

Overwatch 2 launched its modern season model with Season 1 on October 4, 2022, and Blizzard has shipped 22 completed seasons since — with Reign of Talon — Season 3: Into the Tiger’s Den now open as the 23rd. The average Overwatch season runs 61 days, but durations have swung from a record-short 49 days (Season 18) to a holiday-spanning 70 days (Season 8: Call of the Hunt and Season 14: Hazard). This is the complete record of every Overwatch 2 season since 2022, with exact start dates, end dates, and the trend data the other lists skip.

Total Seasons

23 (22 completed + 1 open)

Shortest Season

Season 18 · 49 days

Longest Season

S8 Call of the Hunt / S14 Hazard · 70 days

Average Length

~61 days

Current

Reign of Talon S3 · timer →

Quick answer: Overwatch 2 has run for 23 seasons since its free-to-play relaunch in October 2022 — 20 numbered seasons through Vendetta, plus the Reign of Talon story arc (Conquest, Summit, and Into the Tiger’s Den) following Blizzard’s 2026 rebrand back to Overwatch. The current Overwatch season timer carries the live estimate and confirmation status; this article keeps the completed-season record stable.

How Overwatch 2 Seasons Work

Blizzard rebuilt Overwatch’s live-service model around a two-month seasonal cadence when Overwatch 2 launched on October 4, 2022. Each season ships a 80-tier Premium Battle Pass (1,000 Overwatch Coins, roughly $10), a hero or major hero rework, new maps and modes, a thematic event lineup, and a competitive rank reset. Unclaimed Battle Pass tiers expire at season end, but purchased and earned cosmetics stay on your account permanently.

The cadence target has held steady at roughly nine weeks — 56 to 63 days — with two notable exceptions. Season 8: Call of the Hunt and Season 14: Hazard both ran 70 days because they bridged the December holidays, when Blizzard pauses content drops between Christmas and New Year. The shortest season on record is Season 18 at 49 days, which was deliberately compressed to set up the 2026 rebrand cycle.

In February 2026, Blizzard reset the season counter as part of the Reign of Talon story arc, dropped the “2” from the game’s name, and restructured the year into six themed seasons advancing a single long-form narrative. Functionally the cadence and Battle Pass model are unchanged — only the numbering and arc framing reset. Competitive Points carry across all seasons and the rank ladder still resets each cycle.

All Overwatch 2 Seasons — Complete Timeline

Below is every season since the October 2022 free-to-play launch, sorted newest to oldest. Dates are the official launch and end timestamps from Blizzard, normalized to UTC for cross-region accuracy.

Reign of Talon Era — 2026 Rebrand (post-S20)

The Reign of Talon arc is the first restructure of Overwatch’s seasonal model since the October 2022 reboot. The two completed seasons in the arc have landed inside Blizzard’s nine-week target, averaging 62.5 days. Season 3: Into the Tiger’s Den launched June 16, 2026, continuing the arc; the current Overwatch season timer carries the live estimate for its close.

Overwatch 2 — 2025 Seasons (S15–S20)

2025 subtotal: 6 seasons across 357 days. Season 16: Stadium introduced the new 5v5 Stadium third-person mode that has carried into the Reign of Talon arc. Season 18 at 49 days is the shortest season Blizzard has ever shipped — it was the deliberate set-up window for the Vendetta storyline finale.

Overwatch 2 — 2024 Seasons (S9–S14)

2024 subtotal: 6 seasons across 371 days. Season 14: Hazard is one of two 70-day holiday-spanning seasons on record. Season 10: Venture Forth introduced Venture, the first new Damage hero added under the Overwatch 2 model.

Overwatch 2 — 2022–2023 Seasons (S1–S8)

2022–2023 subtotal: 8 seasons across 497 days. Season 6: Invasion is the largest content drop in this stretch — it delivered the long-promised PvE Story Missions for the first three Null Sector chapters. Season 8: Call of the Hunt matches Hazard at 70 days as the longest Overwatch season ever shipped.

Records & Stats

Longest Overwatch 2 seasons

1. Season 8: Call of the Hunt — 70 days (Dec 5, 2023 → Feb 13, 2024)
2. Season 14: Hazard — 70 days (Dec 10, 2024 → Feb 18, 2025)
3. Season 10: Venture Forth — 65 days (Apr 16, 2024 → Jun 20, 2024)

Both record-holders are December-to-February cycles. Blizzard freezes content drops over the holiday break (mid-December through early January), which adds roughly two weeks of dead time onto whichever season is live at that point.

Shortest Overwatch 2 seasons

1. Season 18 — 49 days (Aug 26, 2025 → Oct 14, 2025)
2. Season 7: Rise of Darkness — 56 days (Oct 10, 2023 → Dec 5, 2023)
3. Season 12: New Frontiers / Season 13: Spellbinder / Season 19 — 56 days each

Season 18 is a clear outlier. The other 56-day seasons cluster at the back half of each calendar year, where Blizzard tightens the schedule to land a December “holiday” season inside the right window.

Average season length and the nine-week target

Across the 22 completed seasons, the mean duration is 61.4 days — almost exactly the nine-week (63-day) cadence Blizzard publicly targets. If you drop the two 70-day holiday outliers, the average pulls down to 60.5 days.

Are Overwatch seasons getting shorter?

Slightly. The 2025 calendar averaged 59.5 days per season — about three days under the long-run mean — driven entirely by the compressed Season 18. The Reign of Talon arc has so far reverted to the original nine-week cadence at 62–63 days per season, so 2026 is on track to land back in the historic average rather than continue the 2025 contraction.

What Happens When an Overwatch Season Ends

Three things reset at every season transition, and they all matter for Battle Pass and ranked players.

Battle Pass deadline. Unclaimed tiers on the current Premium Battle Pass expire the moment the next season goes live. You keep everything you’ve already unlocked — skins, weapon charms, name cards, intro animations — but any tier you haven’t claimed is gone. The current Overwatch season timer tracks exactly when this season’s Battle Pass deadline lands.

Competitive rank decay. Each new season runs a soft rank reset — your skill rating is recalibrated downward, and you must play seven Role Queue or Open Queue placement matches before your new rank is locked in. Competitive Points (the currency used to unlock Golden, Jade, and Celestial weapons) do not reset — they accumulate across all seasons.

Seasonal currencies and consumables. Stadium bucks, event tokens, and any limited-time arcade currencies are deprecated when the new season’s events go live. If you’ve been hoarding them for the season finale, spend them before the reset.

For the live transition timer, see the Overwatch 2 countdown. For a comparable cadence story in the looter-shooter genre, the Destiny 2 season history tracks how Bungie’s slower 84–155 day cycles compare to Overwatch’s tight two-month rhythm — and the Call of Duty season timeline shows how Activision’s nearly identical nine-week target has played out across seven game eras. More breakdowns live on the SeasonTimer blog.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many Overwatch 2 seasons have there been?

There have been 23 Overwatch seasons since the free-to-play relaunch on October 4, 2022 — 20 numbered seasons through Vendetta (Season 20), followed by the 2026 rebrand to Overwatch and the Reign of Talon story arc (Conquest, Summit, and the open Into the Tiger’s Den); the open interval is shown in the table and tracked on the Overwatch 2 timer.

How long do Overwatch 2 seasons last?

Overwatch 2 seasons average 61 days — Blizzard’s stated target is roughly nine weeks (63 days). Most fall in a 56–63 day band. Two holiday-spanning seasons (Call of the Hunt and Hazard) ran 70 days, and the 2025 rebrand setup season (Season 18) was 49 days.

What was the longest Overwatch 2 season ever?

Two seasons are tied at 70 days: Season 8: Call of the Hunt (December 5, 2023 → February 13, 2024) and Season 14: Hazard (December 10, 2024 → February 18, 2025). Both spanned the December holiday content freeze, which is why they ran a week over the standard cadence.

Why did Overwatch drop the “2” in 2026?

Blizzard rebranded the game back to Overwatch in February 2026 alongside the launch of the Reign of Talon story arc. The seasonal cadence, Battle Pass model, and live-service systems are unchanged — only the numbering reset (so the arc restarted counting from Reign of Talon Season 1 rather than continuing at Season 21) and the year-long story-arc framing are new.

Data sourced from Blizzard Entertainment’s official patch notes and season launch announcements, cross-referenced with our season records. Last updated July 17, 2026.