Valencia, Spain · 42.195 km road marathon
Valencia Marathon 2026
Sunday 6 December 2026
A single asphalt loop from the City of Arts and Sciences that the organizer calls the fastest and flattest in the world, with a fixed 12:57 cut-off at 25 km for every wave.
Valencia Marathon at a glance
- Start
- 08:15 to 09:35 in nine waves, Plaça de la Marató beside the City of Arts and Sciences
- Finish
- Walkway beside the Hemisfèric, City of Arts and Sciences
- Course
- One loop through the Cabanyal, the northern ring boulevard and the old town, on a profile from 1.8 to 18 m
- Elevation
- From about sea level to 33 m
- Time limit
- 5 h 30 from your own start crossing; the course closes at 15:15
- Cut-offs
- Km 25 at Plaça de Saragossa by 12:57 clock time, or you board the sweep vehicle
- Entry
- Sold out (36,000 bibs); the waiting list is closed and official tour operators hold packages
- Bib pickup
- Expo 42K, Feria Valencia, Thursday 3 to Saturday 5 December (Saturday until 19:00); none on Sunday
Checked against the organizer's pages on 16 September 2026. Facts for the next edition can still change; the organizer's page is the final word.
Valencia Marathon course map and elevation
One loop through the Cabanyal, the northern ring boulevard and the old town, on a profile from 1.8 to 18 m. Map, elevation profile and 3D flyover.
› running direction two lines: out and back on the same road race kilometresCourse: TrailSplits reconstruction; map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
Route drawn by TrailSplits from published race information; approximate. For illustration, not navigation.
What to expect on the course
- Over the Pont de Montolivet and out to the Marina at km 3
- Turnaround on José María Haro at km 17, then past halfway on the Carrer de la Reina
- Over the Pont de les Arts at km 28 and out to the Bioparc at km 34
- Home by Avinguda del Cid, the Estació del Nord, Colón and the Porta de la Mar to the promenade finish
The map follows the 2026 course as published; the final road-closure plan may differ.
Read the full course description
A single asphalt loop from the City of Arts and Sciences that the organizer calls the fastest and flattest in the world. It crosses the Pont de Montolivet, runs east on Avinguda de les Balears to the Marina at 3 km, north through the Cabanyal and west along Avinguda dels Tarongers, turns at the avenue's western end and threads the Blasco Ibanez and Catalunya grid and the northern ring boulevard to the Alameda around km 13 to 14. A second eastern sweep along Aragon and Blasco Ibanez to a turnaround at Jose Maria Haro at km 17, back down Ramon Llull, along Tarongers eastbound and the Carrer de la Reina past halfway, returns by the port and the Eduard Bosca loop to Placa de Saragossa at 25 km. The north bank of the old riverbed leads over the Pont de les Arts at 28 km into the old town, out west to the Bioparc at 34 km, back over the Pont del Nou d'Octubre and Tres Creus, and home by Avinguda del Cid, the Estacio del Nord, Colon and the Porta de la Mar to the promenade finish. The organizer's profile spans 1.8 to 18 m.
Source, licence and file
TrailSplits reconstruction of the published route. Course: TrailSplits reconstruction; map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL · original source · Download reference GPX (43.0 km in the file). Approximate terrain-model heights added by TrailSplits, sampled and smoothed at roughly 100 m intervals. Buildings, bridges and small road gradients are not surveyed road elevations.Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved.
Three decisions to make before race day
Check the 25 km clock against your wave, not the 5 h 30 figure
The cut-off at Placa de Saragossa is an absolute 12:57. A runner in the 09:35 wave has 3 h 22 to cover 25 km, about 8:05 per kilometre, well inside the 5 h 30 limit but tighter than most people plan for; the course itself closes at 15:15.
Collect your bib at Feria Valencia by Saturday 19:00
The expo is outside the centre and closes at 19:00 on Saturday 5 December; the organizer states that neither bibs nor race bags are issued on the Sunday. A third party may collect with the authorisation set up in the runner portal from 7 November.
Treat a resale bib as a cancelled bib
Entries are sold out and the organizer cancels transferred bibs that bypass its name-change process, which costs 5 euro until 6 November and 25 euro until 26 November and stops entirely afterwards. The refund service returns 80 percent only until 29 November.
Your race-day sheet
Even elapsed splits for 42.195 km. All clocks are local to Valencia.
ESTIMATED FINISH
12:15:00
MOVING PACE BUDGET
5:34/ km
ELAPSED PACE
5:41/ km
90 min below the modelled finish limit
| Distance | Elapsed | Local clock |
|---|---|---|
| 5 km | 00:28:26 | 08:43:26 |
| 10 km | 00:56:53 | 09:11:53 |
| 15 km | 01:25:19 | 09:40:19 |
| 20 km | 01:53:45 | 10:08:45 |
| Halfway | 02:00:00 | 10:15:00 |
| 25 km | 02:22:12 | 10:37:12 |
| 30 km | 02:50:38 | 11:05:38 |
| 35 km | 03:19:05 | 11:34:05 |
| 40 km | 03:47:31 | 12:02:31 |
| Finish | 04:00:00 | 12:15:00 |
Training plan for Valencia Marathon 2026
A free week-by-week plan dated to this race. It starts from a stated default (weekly distance, longest recent run, days a week) that you can change; nothing is read from your watch or training history. It does not use the finish-time target above.
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Entry, bib pickup and rules
- Entry:
- Sold out (36,000 bibs); the waiting list is closed and official tour operators hold packages
- Bib pickup:
- Expo 42K, Feria Valencia, Thursday 3 to Saturday 5 December (Saturday until 19:00); none on Sunday
Read the full entry and pickup rules
Places were allocated by a ballot in December 2025 after a loyalty window for 2025 finishers, and the 36,000 bibs are sold out; a waiting list at 200 euro plus a 5 euro day licence exists but is closed to new sign-ups, and official tour operators hold packages. Name changes cost 5 euro until 6 November and 25 euro until 26 November 2026, after which none are made. Bibs are issued only in person at the Expo 42K at Feria Valencia on Thursday 3 December 17:00 to 21:00, Friday 09:00 to 21:00 and Saturday 09:00 to 19:00, with third-party collection by portal authorisation; nothing is issued on the Sunday.
Sources
Checked 16 September 2026; next review due 2026-10-16. Event facts come from the organizer; the pacing sheet, decisions and plan are TrailSplits' own. Independently prepared by TrailSplits, not endorsed by the organizer.
What each source confirms
- Race rules: The 6 December 2026 date and 46th edition, the 42.195 km certified course, the nine waves, the 5 h 30 limit from the start-line crossing with the 15:15 closure, the 12:57 cut-off at 25 km, fees, name-change deadlines and the expo pickup rules.
- Course page: The 2026 course PDF and image used for the reconstruction and the fastest-and-flattest description.
- Entry information: The ballot phases, the 36,000 places, sold-out status and the waiting list.