Swimming at the 2016 Paralympic Games was held from 8 to 17 September 2016 at Rio Olympic Aquatics Stadium.

The competition consisted of 152 events, across multiple classifications, and all swum in a long course (50-metre) pool.

[1] Up to 600 swimmers (340 males, 260 females) competed in the Games.

With 152 events, swimming came second only to athletics as the largest sport at the 2016 Games.

152 events over two genders (with one mixed relay), across 14 classification and four strokes were contested during the Games.