# List of covers of Time magazine (2020s)

This is a list of covers of Time magazine between 2020 and 2029. Time was first published in 1923. As Time became established as one of the United States' leading news magazines, an appearance on the cover of Time became an indicator of notability, fame or notoriety. Such features were accompanied by articles.
European, Middle Eastern, African, Asian and South Pacific versions of the magazine were published in addition to the United States edition. This article distinguishes versions when the covers are different.
For other decades, see Lists of covers of Time magazine.

## 2020

| Date | Persons or topics | Caption |
| January 20 | Nancy Pelosi | Her Gamble |
| January 27 | Jared Kushner | The Family Business |
| February 3 | The Earth | Youthquake |
| February 10 | Joe Biden | What Makes Joe Run |
| February 17 | Illustration of Xi Jinping | China's Test |
| March 2 | Martin Luther King Jr. | His Legacy |
| March 16 | Various covers of influential women throughout history | 100 Women of the Year |
| March 30 | Coronavirus disease 2019 | New Coronavirus 2019 |
| April 6 | José Andrés | Apart. Not Alone |
| April 20 | An Anesthesiologist | Special Report: Heroes of the front lines |
| April 27 | Street art in Paris on April 11 | Finding Hope |
| May 11 | A NOPE! sign | The Long road back |
| May 18 | US unemployment graph from 1933 to 2020 | The Great Reckoning |
| May 25 | Illustration of Donald Trump | There's a right way to reopen America. This isn't it. |
| June 1 | Photograph by Hannah Beier | Generation Pandemic |
| June 15 | Painting by Titus Kaphar | ...Trayvon Martin, Yvette Smith, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Lacquan McDonald, Tanisha Anderson, Akai Gurley, Tamir Rice, Jerame Reid, Natasha McKenna, Eric Harris, Walter Scott, Freddie Gray, William Chapman, Sandra Bland, Darrius Stewart, Samuel Dubose, Janet Wilson, Calin Roquemore, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Joseph Mann, Terence Crutcher, Chad Robertson, Jordan Edwards, Aaron Bailey, Stephon Clark, Danny Ray Thomas, Antwon Rose, Botham Jean, Atatiana Jefferson, Michael Dean, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd... (Names around the red border) |
| June 22 | George Floyd Protests | The Overdue Awakening |
| July 6 | Painting by Charly Palmer | America Must Change |
| July 20 | A graph of climate change over the last 2 centuries | One Last Chance |
| August 3 | John Lewis | 1940-2020 |
| August 17 | Illustration of Donald Trump and coronavirus disease 2019 floating in a body of water in front of the White House | The Plague Election |
| August 31 | Image of a black and red Flag of the United States being sewn | The New American Revolution |
| September 21 | A list of dates from February 29 through September 8 and the US coronavirus disease 2019 death toll with "200,000" highlighted | An American Failure |
| October 5 | Various covers, including Megan Thee Stallion, Anthony Fauci, Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union, The Weeknd, and more | Time 100 |
| October 19 | An image of coronavirus disease 2019 viral cells exiting the White House | (no caption) |
| November 2 | An illustration by Shepard Fairey of a woman wearing a face-covering with an image of a ballot box | For the first time in history, Time replaced its logo with the word "VOTE" |
| November 16 | An image of a distressed face mask designed to look like an American flag | American Reality |
| November 23 | A photograph of President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris taken on November 7 at their victory speech | A Time to Heal |
| November 30 | A photo-illustration by Sean Freeman and Eve Steben of a snowy and icy window | The Covid Winter Vaccines are coming. So are the hardest months. |
| December 14 | A photograph by Sharif Hamza of Gitanjali Rao | Kid of the Year |
| December 21 | Joe Biden and Kamala Harris | Person of the Year |

## 2021

| Date | Persons or topics | Caption |
| January 18 | U.S. Capitol under attack | Democracy under attack |
| February 1 | Illustration of Joe Biden in the Oval Office | Day One |
| February 15 | Amanda Gorman | The Black Renaissance |
| March 1 | Six different covers, including Brit Bennett, Telfar Clemens, Dua Lipa, Sanna Marin, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan and Marcus Rashford. | The Next 100 |
| March 15 | | Women and the Pandemic |
| March 29 | | We Are Not Silent |
| April 12 | Twyla Joseph | The Lost Year |
| April 26 | | Climate Is Everything |
| May 10 | George Floyd | Justice Not Yet For All |
| May 24 | "God Bless The Child" (painting by Jordan Casteel) | Visions of Equity |
| June 7 | | Will Return: The Great Reopening |
| June 21 | | We'll Never Be The Same |
| July 5 | | The History Wars |
| July 19 | Naomi Osaka | It's O.K. To Not Be O.K. |
| August 2 | Various "Help Wanted" signs | Rethinking Work |
| August 23 | Jared Isaacman, Sian Proctor, Hayley Arceneaux, Christopher Sembroski | Three Days That Could Change Humanity Inside Inspiration4 / The First All-Civilian Trip Into Orbit |
| September 13 | 16 bus drivers in New Mexico who delivered lunches to students during the pandemic | The People Who Saved A School Year |
| September 27 | Seven different covers | The World's Most Influential People |
| October 11 | Jane Goodall | The Enduring Hope of Jane Goodall |
| October 25 | Two different covers. Timothée Chalamet and Mark Zuckerberg | |
| November 8 | | Last call. |
| November 22 | Shannon Brewer | The Last Abortion Clinic |
| December 27 | Elon Musk | Person of the Year for 2021 |

## 2022

| Date | Persons or topics | Caption |
| January 17 | Shonda Rhimes | TV's Greatest |
| January 31 | Illustration of Joe Biden in the Oval Office | Year One |
| January 31 | Alexei Navalny | The Man Putin Fears |
| January 31 | Chloe Kim | Solid Gold |
| February 14 | | How COVID Ends |
| February 14 | | The Crisis that could change Europe forever |
| February 28 | Daniel Motaung | Inside Facebook's African Sweatshop |
| February 28 | Orion Jean | Kid of the Year |
| March 14 | 4 different covers, including Kerry Washington, Kacey Musgraves, Zahra Joya, Amal Clooney | Women of the Year |
| March 14 | Illustration of the Flag of Ukraine | Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Heroes of Ukraine |
| March 28 | Vitalik Buterin | The Prince of Crypto has Concerns |
| March 28 | | The Resilience of Ukraine and The Agony of Ukraine |
| April 11 | 3 different covers, including Mindy Kaling, BTS, Andy Jassy | 100 Most Influential Companies |
| April 25 | Shohei Ohtani | It's Sho-time |
| April 25 | | Earth, Inc. |
| May 9 | Elon Musk holding the logo of Twitter | What everyone gets wrong about Elon Musk |
| May 9 | Olaf Scholz | Germany's Moment |
| May 9 | Volodymyr Zelenskyy | How Zelensky Leads |
| Spring | Olaf Scholz, Ursula von der Leyen | Together Again |
| May 23 | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | Lula's Second Act |
| May 23 | Olga Rudenko | Witnessing a War |
| May 23 | | The Cold Truth |
| June 6 | 5 different covers, including Mary J. Blige, Zendaya, Tim Cook, Mía Mottley, Simu Liu | Time 100 |
| June 20 | Ursula von der Leyen | Europe's Power Broker |
| June 20 | | When are we going to do something? |
| July 4 | | The Oceans Issue |
| July 25 | | Where the Abortion Fight Goes Next |
| July 25 | Shinzo Abe | Shinzo Abe |
| July 25 | Olena Zelenska | Her Private War |
| August 8 | Brittney Griner | Brittney Griner and her fight for freedom |
| August 8 | | Into the Metaverse |
| August 22 | Hasina Najibi and Raihana Rahimi | Stories of Hope, Fear & Resilience |
| August 22 | | Katrina Babies |
| August 22 | | How to do more good |
| September 12 | Gabriel Boric | The New Guard |
| September 12 | Cast of The Rings of Power | TV's Biggest Bet |
| September 12 | Serena Williams | The Greatest |
| September 26 | Elizabeth II | The Queen |
| September 26 | | Climate's New Era |
| October 10 | SZA, Keke Palmer, Sydney Sweeney, Farwiza Farhan | Time 100 Next |
| October 10 | Valerii Zaluzhnyi | The General |
| October 10 | | The Defenders |
| October 24 | Abraham Lincoln | How our greatest president saved democracy and we can too |
| October 24 | Bukayo Saka | Next Generation Leaders |
| November 7 | | The Planet We Made |
| November 21 | | Democracy |
| November 21 | 2022 FIFA World Cup | The Dangerous Game |
| December 5 | Steven Spielberg | Spielberg. |
| December 26 | Volodymyr Zelenskyy | Person of the Year |

## 2023

| Date | Persons or topics | Caption |
| January 16 | | The Secrets of Happiness Experts |
| January 30 | | Zip It! |
| February 13 | | Division & Destiny |
| February 27 | ChatGPT | The AI Arms Race is Changing Everything |
| March 13 | | Our 100th Year |
| March 27 | The Giza pyramid complex | The World's Greatest Places |
| April 10 | Bad Bunny | El Mundo De Bad Bunny |
| April 24 | | Unprecedented |
| May 22 | Charles III | Finally, King |
| June 12 | Ron DeSantis | What Ron DeSantis Means for America |
| July 3 | Kim Kardashian | The 100 Most Influential Companies |
| July 24 | Hari Nef, Alexandra Shipp, Margot Robbie, Issa Rae, Kate McKinnon | Barbie's World |
| August 14 | John Fetterman | Out of the Darkness |
| September 4 | Donald Trump | Does this Ride Ever End? |
| September 25 | Jalen Hurts | Time 100 Next |
| October 9 | Elon Musk | Elon Musk's Fight for the Future of AI |
| October 23 | Deion Sanders | The Believer |
| November 6 | Jonathan Polin, Rachel Goldberg-Polin | The Hostage Nightmare |
| November 20 | | The Horror of Gaza |
| December 4 | Sultan Al Jaber | Man in the Middle |
| December 6 | Taylor Swift | Person of the Year |

## 2024

| Date | Persons or topics | Caption |
| January 22 | Antony Blinken | The Envoy |
| February 12 | Issa Rae | Working To Close the Racial Wealth Gap |
| February 26 | MrBeast | How He Became the Most Watched Person In the World |
| March 11 | Greta Gerwig | Women of the Year |
| March 25 | Evan Gershkovich | The Fight to Free Evan Gershkovich |
| April 8 | Jane Fonda | Jane Fonda's Next Act |
| April 29 | Patrick Mahomes | The World's Most Influential People |
| May 13 | Coco Gauff | Why the Tennis Star is Playing for Herself Now |
| May 27 | Donald Trump | If He Wins |
| June 10 | Selena Gomez | The 100 Most Influential Companies |
| June 24 | | Donald Trump Convicted in Historic New York Hush-Money Trial |
| July 15 | Melinda French Gates | Melinda French Gates Is Going It Alone |
| August 5 | Kamala Harris | Why Joe Biden Dropped Out |
| August 26 | Kamala Harris | |
| September 16 | Nayib Bukele | The Strongman |
| September 30 | Donald Trump | In Trouble |
| October 14 | JD Vance | The New Right |
| October 28 | Nicola Coughlan | Next Generation Leaders |
| November 11 | | Your Vote is Safe |
| November 25 | A photograph of President-elect Donald Trump during his victory speech | President-elect Donald Trump |
| December 11 | Elon Musk | Citizen Musk |
| December 30 | Donald Trump | Person of the Year |

## 2025

| Date | Persons or topics | Caption |
| January 27 | Jimmy Carter | Jimmy Carter 1924 – 2024 |
| February 10 | Donald Trump | He's Back |
| February 27 | Colman Domingo | The Revolutionary Colman Domingo |
| March 10 | Nicole Kidman | Women of the Year |