Running · Berlin, DE
Edition
2027
A published start straight and a course map that is still the 2026 edition.
Race day
September 26, 2027
Distance
Marathon
Climbing
73 m
Photo: Claire (via Wikimedia Commons) · CC BY 2.0
2026 operating status
Know what is final.
Sunday 26 September 2027. Schedule and route are subject to change.
SourceLottery 1 October to 12 November 2026. Results 3 December 2026. €215 charged only if you are drawn, from 4 December. Born 2009 or earlier.
SourceNo GPX. Interactive map is explicitly the 2026 edition. Elevation tba. Refreshment kilometres are printed on the Generali course page anyway.
SourceRace weekend board
Every race weekend has a different failure point. Tell us who is coming and what the hotel must solve; the board changes the base, spectator plan, and race-day timing.
Your strongest base
Kleiner SternWhy this result · This base matches “I’m racing” and “Start logistics” more strongly than the other authored options.
The start line is on Straße des 17. Juni between the Brandenburg Gate and Kleiner Stern. This pin is Kleiner Stern, the west end of that description, not the mat. Do not use a western geocode of the same street in Charlottenburg.
Tradeoff: The start and the gate are the same event site. A hotel east of the gate is not an entrance.
Course timing signal
Unter den Linden, beside the gate.
Kempinski prints Hotel Adlon Kempinski Berlin, Unter den Linden 77, 10117 Berlin.
Consider: The door is not a runner entrance. The printed entrances are Platz der Republik and Bremer Weg. The start straight is west of the gate, toward Kleiner Stern.
Address from the Kempinski location page, opened 4 November 2026.
03 / Predicted finish
These are elapsed estimates after the runner crosses the start, not clock times. Add transit and security margin.
Give this to your support crew
The map is still 2026. These two places are named on the 2027 pages.
Straße des 17. Juni
Subway: Unter den Linden, Bundestag, Brandenburg Gate, Potsdamer Platz. S-Bahn: Brandenburg Gate, Hauptbahnhof, Potsdamer Platz.
Start between the Brandenburg Gate and Kleiner Stern. Public entry to the fenced site is not how you watch the gun.
Olivaer Platz
The course page does not name a station for this square.
Printed after kilometre 33. About mile 20.5. The interactive map on that page is the 2026 edition. Cutoff at kilometre 33 is 15:50.
Meetup: Your bib is a zone A–C ticket from 23 through 26 September. Spectators need their own ticket.
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Berlin is Sunday 26 September 2027. The €215 lottery stays open through 12 November 2026, and you pay only if you are drawn on 3 December. The start is the straight between the Brandenburg Gate and Kleiner Stern. The course page still shows the 2026 map and says elevation is tba, so the old 73 m figure is not a 2027 profile.
Race day on the participant page is Sunday 26 September 2027. The start is on Straße des 17. Juni between the Brandenburg Gate and Kleiner Stern. The finish closes at 17:15, and after that you cannot run through the Brandenburg Gate. The course page says the interactive map is the 2026 BMW Berlin Marathon and that elevation is tba. No GPX. The lottery runs through 12 November 2026.
Sunday 26 September 2027 starts on Straße des 17. Juni between the Brandenburg Gate and Kleiner Stern. The finish closes at 17:15, and the race-day page says you can no longer run through the Brandenburg Gate after that. Time limit 6:15. The course page says its interactive map is still the 2026 edition and that elevation is tba. No GPX.
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.
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 Kleiner Stern (west end of the published start straight, not the mat). Grid elevation 49 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 | 49 m. 0 below 300 m, 100 at 2000 m. Source: open-meteo-grid. |
| H Heat | 50 | High 17.5°C, dew point 9.1°C. The hotter of the two bands is used. |
| W Wind | 15 | 2.99 m/s median. Bands: under 3 → 15, under 5 → 40, under 8 → 70, else 100. |
| C Cutoff | 37.5 | 375 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 | 50 | 100 minus heat (50). |
| B BQ evidence | — | No cited BQ rate. |
| E Execution | 30 | Cutoff 375 min on 42.2 km. Pacers and a course certificate are not in this record, so they add nothing. |
Four-day operating plan
Thursday 23 September 2027
01Saturday 25 September 2027
02Sunday 26 September 2027
03
Difficulty 49
Difficulty 57
Difficulty 18 · PR 80
Difficulty 49 · PR 4