On the named avenue
Mandarin Oriental, Barcelona
The hotel's own page lists Passeig de Gràcia 38-40, Barcelona 08007.
Consider: That is a hotel address, not a start mat and not a course mile.
Zurich Marató Barcelona is Sunday 14 March 2027. The regulation gun is 08:30 for 42.195 urban kilometres, and a 1 November 2026 note says all 37,000 entries sold out. Prices step from €70 to €100 by bib number. We have no dollar fee, no climb, and no finish street. The hub is Passeig de Gràcia. A linked GPX asked for a login, so we stored no file. Six hours from the last starter is the limit.
Checked 4 November 2026 against the regulation, the course page, the 1 November sell-out note, bib pickup, and the visitor-area page. No GPX is stored. The finish street and the expo building are not published.
Why we'd pick it
- The course profile is not published yet, so there is no fake climbing number here.
- The organizer reports the field sold out; direct entry is no longer available.
- A non-racing partner gets a real weekend here — 5/5.
- Race day usually sits 7.5–15.7°C, about 27% chance of rain.
The course
The regulation calls it 42.195 km, totally urban, certified by the FCA, RFEA, and World Athletics. The course page puts the hub on Passeig de Gràcia and links a map pin at 41.388646, 2.169358, which is a point on the avenue rather than a surveyed mat. Start and finish map links on that page are empty, and the PDF is named as a 2026 circuit. A Strava GPX link is published, but the download required a login, so this record has no course file and no elevation total. The official limit is 6 hours from the last starter, and the race ends at 16:00. Liquid stations are listed by approximate kilometre only.
Difficulty and PR scores
Difficulty is the course and the conditions. The PR score is a separate read on a fast clock. Missing inputs are dropped and the other weights are rescaled. The method, with the weights.
- Difficulty
- 22 / 100
- PR / BQ friendliness
- Not scored
Weight used: 70%. Need 40% before we print a number.
Weight used: 40%. Need 45% before we print a number.
Weather median for 2011–2025, race date ±7 days, 225 days, at Organizer map pin / Passeig de Gràcia. Grid elevation 26 m.
No cited BQ rate for this race.
| Input | 0–100 | What went in |
|---|---|---|
| G Gain | — | No trusted gain per km. Uncertain stored gain is not used. |
| A Altitude | 0 | 26 m. 0 below 300 m, 100 at 2000 m. Source: open-meteo-grid. |
| H Heat | 30 | High 15.7°C, dew point 7.6°C. The hotter of the two bands is used. |
| W Wind | 15 | 2.55 m/s median. Bands: under 3 → 15, under 5 → 40, under 8 → 70, else 100. |
| C Cutoff | 50 | 360 min. A 5:00 marathon maps to 100 and a 7:00 marathon maps to 0, scaled by distance. |
| S Surface | 15 | road. Road 15, mixed 45, gravel 70, trail 90. |
| T Cool temps | 70 | 100 minus heat (30). |
| B BQ evidence | — | No cited BQ rate. |
| E Execution | 30 | Cutoff 360 min on 42.2 km. Pacers and a course certificate are not in this record, so they add nothing. |
