Apex Legends Map Rotation Guide (Season 31): Every Map and Mode

Apex Legends doesn't let you pick your battle royale map: Pubs and Ranked each run a timed rotation, and the maps in it change with every season and often at the mid-season split. Season 31 "Cipher", which started on 3 November 2026, narrows the main rotation to three maps and moves the other three into Wildcard, Mixtape or the waiting room for Season 32. This guide lists every map and mode for the season with dates, explains how the timers work, shows two years of rotation history from EA's own patch notes and tells you how to prepare when the rotation changes.

The Season 31 rotation at a glance

EA's notes list no Wildcard maps between 10 and 30 November, which is also when the Godzilla event runs on Storm Point; check the playlist in game for that window. Every date here is from EA's Cipher patch notes, and EA can change a rotation with a hotfix or a mid-season update, so the in-game lobby is always the final word.

How the rotation timer works

Battle royale maps rotate on a fixed timer, and the lobby shows the current map and how long it has left. EA's Season 30 patch notes (3 August 2026) are the most recent to spell out the timers: after a launch window, Pubs went back to "the normal 90-minute rotation" and Ranked to "the normal 4.5-hour rotation". The Cipher notes don't restate them, so treat those numbers as the standard and the lobby timer as the truth.

BoostPirate's tip: in ranked, the 4.5-hour window is worth planning around. If one of the three maps is your weakest, it makes sense to queue when the timer shows your strong map and to spend the weak map's window in Pubs or in the Firing Range. It also explains why a ranked session can feel like "always Storm Point": you may simply be playing inside the same window every evening.

All six battle royale maps this season

Apex Legends has six battle royale maps. Here is where each one stands in Season 31, from EA's notes:

The three maps outside the main rotation all changed recently. World's Edge got a rework with Season 30 in August 2026, with Sorting Factory and Construction Stacks back, Tree Settlement and War Camp in place of The Tree and Survey Camp, and Big Maude merged into Landslide; the Cipher notes add cover at War Camp and fixes at Construction Stacks and Sorting Factory. Olympus was revamped in Season 27 (Somers University, Gravity Engine, Stabilizer, Dockyard) and had Elysium moved in March 2026. Kings Canyon gets the biggest change of all: EA announced "Kings Canyon Evolved", "a completely reworked map with numerous new, remixed, and touched up POIs", as Season 32's major map update in early 2027.

Mixtape: Team Deathmatch, Control and Gun Run

Mixtape is the playlist of small-map modes, and its maps are mostly cut-outs of battle royale maps. From 3 November 2026 – 5 January 2027:

Several of those arenas are pieces of the big maps: Barometer and Wattson Pylon come from Storm Point, Production Yard from Broken Moon, and Fragment and Monument from World's Edge. That makes Mixtape a useful warm-up: a few rounds of Control on Barometer or Production Yard teach you the buildings you will fight in on the battle royale map later.

Wildcard: maps and dates

Wildcard is the casual battle royale variant; in Season 31 EA's notes say Wild Cards are granted at the start of Rounds 1, 2 and 3 and that Replicators were removed from the mode. Its map schedule this season:

1. 3 – 9 Nov 2026

   E-DistrictBroken Moon District Wildcard and Broken Moon Wildcard.

2. 10 – 30 Nov 2026

   No Wildcard maps listed in EA's notes; the Godzilla event runs on Storm Point from 10 November to 1 December.

3. 1 Dec 2026 – 5 Jan 2027

   OlympusE-DistrictBroken Moon Olympus is back, in Wildcard only.

Events and ladders on the calendar

Two other dates shape what you play this split. EA's Godzilla event brings Godzilla to Storm Point from 10 November to 1 December 2026. And the Cipher notes announce five weekly Ranked Ladders, "coming later this split":

Each ladder week is played on the same three-map rotation, so a squad that wants to place well on a ladder should be comfortable on all three. Our Season 31 ranked changes page explains ladders, bans and the new match types.

Two years of rotation

The table below collects the Pubs and Ranked rotation from every EA patch note we could read since E-District arrived. Two patterns stand out:

• Broken Moon is the constant. It appears in 7 of the 9 rotations shown, more than any other map.
• Season 31 repeats a classic trio. Storm Point, E-District and Broken Moon were also the rotation of Season 22 (2024) and Season 26 (2025). Otherwise every split in the table changes at least one map, so expect the pool to change at Season 31's split too.

Not every split is in the table: we leave out Seasons 23 to 25 and the second splits of Seasons 26, 27 and 29, whose notes we haven't read for this guide.

What changed on the maps this season

Besides the rotation, the Cipher notes change the maps themselves. Every map got a lighting and material pass, standardised world lighting for "more predictable character contrast", reworked fog that keeps sightlines and slower auto-exposure. EA lists "99 targeted Quality of Life" fixes focused on Storm Point, Olympus and World's Edge, more than 35 rat and hiding spots resolved across all maps and more than 15 out-of-bounds clips with Alter's abilities fixed. E-District Night got its own lighting rework (see our E-District guide).

What's next: split two and Season 32

The next rotation change will most likely come at Season 31's split. EA hasn't published its date: the Cipher notes give none, though the five ranked ladders run "this split" until 13 December. Season 30's split started on 15 September, six weeks after the season. When the split arrives, expect new patch notes and possibly new maps; we update this page from them.

Further out, Season 32 in early 2027 brings Kings Canyon Evolved and EA's ranked overhaul (new tiers and a Pro-Am League where Drop Zones and Legend bans live). Our Season 32 ranked overhaul guide covers the ranked side.

How to prepare when the rotation changes

• Read the patch notes' "Map Rotation" section on season and split days; it lists Pubs, Ranked, Mixtape and Wildcard separately.
• Play two or three Pubs matches on any map that is new to the rotation before you queue ranked on it.
• Use Mixtape arenas cut from the rotation's maps to learn their buildings.
• Re-learn one drop and one rotation per map: a quiet POI and the route out of it.
• Check what changed on the map itself; a rework (like World's Edge in Season 30) can break old routes.
• In ranked, plan sessions around the 4.5-hour window of your strongest map.

For where to land on each map, our drop spots guide has a board for all three, and how to rank up in Apex turns map knowledge into rank points.

More map guides: Storm Point · E-District · Broken Moon · drop spots · ranked reset and splits · Season 31 ranked changes