--- description: The games wrap up on Sunday night. Here's what to expect and when and how to watch the closing ceremony, which ends the Rio Olympics. title: How to Watch the Rio Olympics Closing Ceremony image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc4fed9fee1a64134/6988a3110a4a22ab609cafbc/rio-de-janeiro.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Sports](/section/sports/) ## Sports Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [olympics](/tag/olympics/) ## olympics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # How to Watch the 2016 Rio Olympics Closing Ceremony by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 19, 2016 10:24 PM CUT  Fireworks explode over the Maracana stadium during the opening ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on August 5, 2016. Fireworks explode over the Maracana stadium during the opening ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on August 5, 2016.WILLIAM WEST—AFP/Getty Images by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 19, 2016 10:24 PM CUT Two weeks of athletic achievement, success and disappointment [wrap up on Sunday night](http://www.nbcolympics.com/news/how-watch-rio-2016-olympic-games "undefined") at the [closing ceremony](http://www.vox.com/2016/8/19/12502888/closing-ceremony-time-rio-olympics-watch-online-time-live-stream "undefined") for the 2016 [Olympics](http://time.com/4440535/olympics-host-cities/ "undefined") in Rio de Janeiro. The event will be televised on NBC at 8 p.m. Eastern (on a one-hour delay from the actual ceremony), 7 p.m. Central and Mountain, and 8 p.m. Pacific. Viewers can also watch on the NBC Sports app or on [NBCOlympics.com](http://NBCOlympics.com "undefined"), but will be prompted for a log-in after 30 minutes. Like the opening ceremony, Sunday’s festivities are expected to be more modest than Olympics past, directed by the same team as the opener. The Olympic flag will be passed to the host of the next summer games: get ready for [Tokyo 2020](http://time.com/4437796/olympics-toyko-new-sports/ "undefined"). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4460028/closing-ceremony-rio-olympics-2016/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4460028/closing-ceremony-rio-olympics-2016/"},"headline":"How to Watch the 2016 Rio Olympics Closing Ceremony","datePublished":"2016-08-19T22:24:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T00:06:10.087Z","description":"The games wrap up on Sunday night","url":"https://time.com/4460028/closing-ceremony-rio-olympics-2016/","keywords":["olympics"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc4fed9fee1a64134/6988a3110a4a22ab609cafbc/rio-de-janeiro.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Sports","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc4fed9fee1a64134/6988a3110a4a22ab609cafbc/rio-de-janeiro.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"OLY-2016-RIO-OPENING","caption":"OLY-2016-RIO-OPENING","creditText":"WILLIAM WEST—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/sports/","name":"Sports"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/olympics/","name":"olympics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4460028/closing-ceremony-rio-olympics-2016/","name":"How to Watch the 2016 Rio Olympics Closing Ceremony"}}]}] ```