Complete Guide to All VALORANT Maps and Their Locations

VALORANT features an impressive roster of maps, each inspired by real-world locations and designed with unique gameplay mechanics. From the sun-drenched streets of Venice to the frozen tundras of the Arctic, these battlegrounds offer diverse tactical challenges. Here’s everything you need to know about all Valorant maps.

Current Competitive Map Pool

Riot Games keeps a rotation of seven maps in the competitive pool at any one time, making swaps every few months to keep the pro scene fresh. The current map pool can be checked here.

All Valorant Maps: Standard Modes

Ascent

Location: Venice, Italy

Ascent brings players to the heart of Venice, showcasing beautiful Italian architecture high in the clouds. This two-site map features a massive middle area that serves as the primary battleground, with sliding mechanical doors that can cut off rotations between sites. The combination of open spaces and chokepoints creates dynamic gameplay that rewards both aggressive pushes and calculated plays. Ascent’s mid-dominant design makes controlling the center crucial, as it allows for easy site-to-site rotations and strategic pressure.

Key Features: Mechanical doors, wide-open mid area

Bind

Location: Rabat, Morocco

Set in the arid deserts of Morocco, Bind revolutionized VALORANT map design by eliminating the traditional middle section. Instead, the map features two one-way teleporters that allow instant travel across the map, though they announce your presence with loud audio cues. This unique layout forces teams to commit to either A or B site, creating intense strategic decisions. The desert aesthetic and narrow passages make for close-quarters combat and explosive utility usage.

Key Features: One-way teleporters, no mid section, tight angles

Breeze

Location: Bermuda Triangle, Atlantic Ocean

Breeze transports players to a tropical paradise with wide-open beaches and historic ruins. As one of VALORANT’s largest maps, it emphasizes long-range engagements and open sightlines, making it a paradise for snipers. The massive bomb sites and numerous approach angles give attackers plenty of options, while defenders must carefully manage rotations through the vent system connecting A Site and mid. The map received significant reworks in 2026 to reduce some of the most extreme angles, but it remains a playground for Operator users and long-range duelists.

Key Features: Extremely large sites, vent rotations, long-range combat focus

Icebox

Location: Bennett Island, Russian Far East

Deep in the Arctic Circle sits Icebox, a Kingdom excavation site overtaken by ice and snow. This vertical playground features horizontal ziplines and shipping container mazes that create complex angles and unexpected encounters. Icebox has undergone more reworks than any other map, with Riot constantly adjusting its notoriously difficult layout. The close spawns make for fast-paced rounds, and the multiple elevation changes require players to constantly check vertical angles.

Key Features: Horizontal ziplines, extreme verticality, tight container corridors

Lotus

Location: Western Ghats, India

Lotus is VALORANT’s second three-site map, set within an ancient temple radiating with mysterious power. The map features rotating stone doorways that unlock alternate routes between sites, adding a dynamic element to rotations and flanks. Like Haven, Lotus does not include a third ultimate orb at mid, and players can use rope ascenders and silenced drops for tactical repositioning. The combination of three sites and rotating doors creates mind games where predicting attacker intentions becomes paramount.

Key Features: Three bomb sites, rotating stone doors, verticality

Split

Location: Tokyo, Japan

Split divides its two sites with a narrow central alley, making mid control the key to victory. This original launch map showcases Japanese urban architecture with extreme verticality and rope ascenders connecting multiple levels. The tight pathways and numerous elevation changes create intense close-quarters battles. Split’s design forces aggressive mid control from both teams, as losing the center effectively surrenders map control.

Key Features: Extreme verticality, wide mid with connections to both sites, rope ascenders

Sunset

Location: Los Angeles, California, USA

Sunset brings VALORANT to the streets of East LA, where a Kingdom facility has caused a massive sinkhole. This traditional two-site, three-lane map emphasizes mid control with a destructible mechanical door between B Market and Mid Courtyard. Players can open or close this door, creating more tactical options. The map’s straightforward layout and focus on fundamentals made it quickly popular, resembling fan-favorites like Ascent and Split. Vibrant murals from LA street artists add authentic cultural flavor to the urban environment.

Key Features: Mechanical door, strong mid focus, traditional layout

Abyss

Location: Secret base in Norway

Abyss plunges players into a clandestine facility built on a massive floating platform suspended over an endless void. This 2024 addition literally has no boundaries – players can fall off the edges into the abyss below. The unique layout emphasizes vertical angles and care about rotations, with death drops creating high-risk, high-reward utility plays. With a long mid with multiple angles, tight choke points on A, and B with several nifty hiding spots, Abyss is a map that needs teamwork.

Key Features: No boundaries/walls, death drops, extreme vertical gameplay

Corrode

Location: Mont-Saint-Michel, Normandy, France

Corrode transforms the historic French castle town of Mont-Saint-Michel into a radianite salt mining facility. After the Omega First Light event caused waters to evaporate, vast salt flats were exposed for mining. This traditional two-site, three-lane map features medieval architecture mixed with industrial machinery. The map emphasizes layered defensive angles, long rotations, and fundamental gunplay without gimmicky mechanics. Its classic FPS design rewards precise aim and tactical positioning.

Key Features: Layered pathing, wide mid, medieval-industrial aesthetic

Fracture

Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

Fracture broke VALORANT conventions with its revolutionary H-shaped layout where attackers spawn on both sides of defenders. This research facility was literally fractured by a failed radianite experiment, splitting it down the middle. The unconventional design forces defenders to watch multiple angles simultaneously, as bomb sites sit on opposite ends with attackers able to pressure from both sides. An underground zipline connects the attacker sides, enabling lightning-fast rotates and flanks. The map demands exceptional communication and coordination.

Key Features: Four ultimate orbs, H-shaped layout, underground ziplines

Haven

Location: Thimphu, Bhutan

Haven made history as VALORANT’s first three-site map, breaking the tactical shooter tradition of two bomb sites. Set in a spiritual Bhutanese temple, the map creates unique strategic depth where defenders must spread resources across three locations while attackers have more options to pressure. The large pathways and spacious mid area give both teams plenty of room to maneuver. Haven’s distinctive layout has made it a perennial favorite, forcing teams to make difficult decisions about site coverage and rotations.

Key Features: Three bomb sites, large mid area

Pearl

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Pearl marked VALORANT’s first map set on Omega Earth, showcasing an underwater city preserved by Kingdom Industries. After climate change caused catastrophic flooding, a protective dome saved part of Lisbon while the rest fell to ruin. This three-lane map deliberately avoids mechanical gimmicks, focusing entirely on gunplay fundamentals. Mid Plaza control becomes crucial, as it provides access to both sites and dictates round pace. Despite initial community criticism, numerous reworks have refined Pearl into a more balanced experience.

Key Features: No mechanical elements, underwater setting, traditional three-lane design

Team Deathmatch Maps

VALORANT’s five TDM-exclusive maps are smaller, faster-paced arenas designed for quick duels. These maps feature power-up orbs, weapon upgrades, and heal orbs.

District

Inspired by Split, District offers tight urban lanes with numerous flank routes. The compact design encourages frequent close-to-mid-range gunfights, with power-ups spawning in contested central areas.

Glitch

This futuristic high-tech map rewards height advantage and coordinated pushes. The layout demands quick repositioning and constant awareness of elevated positions.

Drift

Drift caters to players who love mid-to-long-range combat. Open sightlines and elevated platforms make crosshair placement and map awareness critical for success.

Piazza

Themed after a European town square, Piazza features a central plaza with short connecting paths. The circular layout creates chaotic, fast-paced action with constant repositioning opportunities.

Kasbah

North African architecture defines Kasbah’s tight indoor corridors. The close-quarters emphasis makes every engagement unpredictable and intensely tactical.

All Valorant Maps: Skirmish

Introduced in Patch 11.07b, Skirmish mode offers three mirrored map variations designed for warm-up and practice. These stripped-down arenas support 1v1 up to 5v5 matches without abilities, economy, or spike plants.

Skirmish A

The most compact variation, emphasizing pure aim duels in a straight-line layout.

Skirmish B

A wider arena with two main lanes, rewarding positioning and crosshair placement alongside mechanical skill.

Skirmish C

The most complex Skirmish map, featuring multiple lanes and constant flanking opportunities that demand quick repositioning.