ESTIMATED65% CONFIDENCEWikipedia's[1][2] article dates it "scheduled to take place in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, in October 2030". Only the month is fixed so far, so the pin covers the whole of it.
The 2030 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXIV Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Amdavad 2030, is a planned multi-sport event scheduled to take place in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, in October 2030. This will be the second Commonwealth Games to be hosted in India, following the 2010 Games in Delhi, and the third in Asia. The article's infobox names Narendra Modi Stadium as the main venue, and its venue table lists the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Sports Enclave around it as the ceremonies venue, capacity 132,000.
SCHEDULED82% CONFIDENCENASA's[1][2][3] eclipse catalogue gives the instant of greatest eclipse as 06:50:19 UT on 2030-11-25 (06:51:37 TD, the two separated by delta-T), from Saros series 133. Eclipse circumstances are computed from orbital mechanics, so the date and time are exact centuries ahead.
The Moon's shadow touches down at 06:50:19 UT on 2030-11-25, and the total phase lasts up to 3 minutes 44 seconds along a path 169.3 km wide crossing Botswana, S. Africa and Australia. A partial eclipse is visible from southern Africa, southern Indian Oc., the East Indies, Australia and Antarctica.
SCHEDULED79% CONFIDENCEGiven as scheduled, per en.wikipedia.org[1]: "…Riga) to the Lithuania-Poland border is scheduled for 2030, with completion of the double track rail…"
A European-gauge high-speed line finally connecting Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to the rest of the EU rail network. Estimated date.
SCHEDULED75% CONFIDENCEGiven as scheduled, per en.wikipedia.org[1]: "…te], the first phase of the project was scheduled to be completed in 2030.[8] Bin Salman, as chairma…"
The first 2.4 km of a proposed 170 km linear city of mirrored walls, scaled back sharply from original announcements. Estimated date.
SCHEDULED82% CONFIDENCEGiven as scheduled, per the source[1]: "Phase I is expected to open in 2030 with two runways and capacity for 60 million passengers."
Ethiopia has begun construction on the $12.5BN Bishoftu International Airport, designed for up to 110 million passengers a year and billed as Africa's biggest aviation project.
ESTIMATED66% CONFIDENCETwo estimates disagree. Gulf News[3] (18 February 2025) reported the developer targeting 2028, while Wikipedia's[2] infobox estimates 2030 and records that as of May 2026 only the raft foundation and the nine-level basement car park were in progress, with about 750 workers on site daily. The later, better-evidenced 2030 estimate is followed and dated to the last day of that year.
Azizi Developments is building the 725m Burj Azizi on Dubai's Sheikh Zayed Road, a tower meant to become the world's second-tallest building, though work was still on the raft foundation and basement car park in mid-2026.
ESTIMATED61% CONFIDENCEA target, per the source[1]: work continues "until 2030, when the entire Seine-Scheldt[2] network will be brought into service", though some sources put full completion closer to 2032.
A €5.1BN, 107km canal connecting the Seine basin to Belgium and the Netherlands, finally under construction after being proposed for more than two decades and delayed twice by World Wars.
SCHEDULED75% CONFIDENCEGiven as scheduled, per the source[1]: the remediation works agreement covers "seven years of remediation works" with a "contract scheduled completion date" of 31/12/2030.
A €23M EBRD-backed grant funds a seven-year project to relocate radioactive uranium tailings from Mailuu-Suu's most dangerous dam, away from the Fergana Valley's water supply.
ESTIMATED66% CONFIDENCEA target, per the source[1]: "there's still a lot to do to reach the 2030 target for completion."
Belgium's €10BN Oosterweel project is finally closing the long-unfinished Antwerp Ring Road, using sunken river tunnels and a route built inside an existing canal to cut chronic traffic delays.
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, 2101 NASA Parkway, Houston, TX, USANASA
SCHEDULED77% CONFIDENCEGiven as scheduled, per the source[1]: "NASA[3] and its international partners are planning to intentionally deorbit the orbiting laboratory around 2030 or shortly thereafter."
NASA plans to retire the 25-year-old ISS by guiding it into a remote stretch of the South Pacific using a purpose-built SpaceX deorbit vehicle.
ESTIMATED62% CONFIDENCEGiven as scheduled, per the source[1]: "Estonia is pressing ahead with its part of the project and has already begun procurement for new trains expected to run from Tallinn to the Latvian border by 2030."
Estonia is pressing ahead with its share of the cross-Baltic Rail Baltica line, aiming to run new high-speed trains from Tallinn to the Latvian border even as the wider three-country project slips well past its original schedule.
ESTIMATED63% CONFIDENCEEstimated: Wikipedia's[2] staging table ends stage 3 in 2028, but Dezeen[3] (5 March 2024) and the City of Vienna give the district's completion as 2030, and the pin's date is that completion, so it uses the end of 2030.
Vienna is building out Aspern Seestadt, a $6BN new city quarter on a former airfield meant to house 25,000 residents once its final construction stage wraps up.
DELAYED5 years late62% CONFIDENCEGiven as scheduled, per the source[1]: "the first 1.6 GW unit of its Hinkley Point C nuclear project in the UK is scheduled to start producing electricity in 2030".
EDF has pushed the first reactor at Britain's Hinkley Point C nuclear plant back to 2030 and raised its cost estimate to roughly £35bn in 2015 prices.
DELAYED2 years late76% CONFIDENCEA target year, per bismarcktribune.com[1]: Base Electron's Tyler Hammond said that if the permit is approved "construction would commence in the second quarter of 2027 and the plant would be operational in 2030"; a year alone is dated to its last day.
The 1,200 MW gas-fired plant Babcock & Wilcox is building for Base Electron near Center, North Dakota, to power Applied Digital's AI data centres is now due to run in 2030, after B&W first promised power by the end of 2028.
ESTIMATED66% CONFIDENCEEstimated, per NextDecade's FID release: "The guaranteed substantial completion date for Train 4, as well as the date of first commercial delivery (DFCD) under the Train 4 LNG SPAs, is anticipated in the second half of 2030" - a half-year, so its last day.[1]
NextDecade's 6 mtpa Train 4 at Rio Grande LNG near Brownsville, Texas, a $6.7 billion expansion, is due to reach substantial completion and begin deliveries under its 20-year contracts in the second half of 2030. Aramco buys 1.2 mtpa of its output, alongside ADNOC and TotalEnergies.