When Does Shark Week 2025 Start? Here's The Full Week-Long Schedule
Shark Week 2025 is just around the corner. Discovery Channel's annual celebration of the ocean's apex predator returns for its 37th year this weekend. Read on to find out exactly when Shark Week begins, the full release schedule and more details about the jaw-dropping event.
Shark Week brought in an impressive 25 million viewers last year, according to Warner Bros. Discovery, and the thrilling footage and groundbreaking scientific discoveries are back for 2025.
The week-long event will feature 20 hours of new specials, including Dancing with Sharks to kick off the week. Hosted by Emmy-winning TV personality Tom Bergeron, the special features 'an unprecedented underwater dance competition between expert divers and their shark partners,' Discovery teased.
This summer also marks the 50th anniversary of Jaws, and Shark Week is honoring the milestone with special programming inspired by the blockbuster film. Surviving Jaws features marine biologist Tom 'The Blowfish' Hird and predator ecologist Michelle Jewell as they dive with great whites to answer one burning question: Does skinny-dipping really attract great white sharks?
Fans can also look forward to the return of Air Jaws, where two teams travel the globe in search of the biggest breaching sharks in the world. Another special, In the Eye of the Storm, follows victims and first responders in real time as they encounter a cluster of shark attacks along Florida's Gulf Coast.
Keep reading for the full Shark Week 2025 programming slate.
When Does Shark Week 2025 Start?
Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), underwater with caged divers. Dangerous Reef, South ... More Australia. (Photo by Auscape/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Discovery Channel's 'Shark Week' officially runs from Sunday, July 20, through Saturday, July 26. Programming will begin at 8 p.m. ET each night.
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