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Nice Half Marathon

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Promenade des Anglais
© OpenStreetMap Promenade des Anglais. Photograph by Patafisik, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons . Course line © OpenStreetMap contributors

The course

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Flat from start to finish: 7 m between the lowest and the highest point.

Start, finish

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Le Méridien Nice

All the starts are on the Promenade des Anglais facing the Le Méridien hotel.

Height drawn many times taller than life. Heights: GEDTM30.

Course elevation profile, 8× vertical exaggeration Elevation along the course from km 0 to km 21. The trace runs between 4 and 11 metres, a range of 7 metres, drawn at 8 times vertical exaggeration so the shape is legible. Smoothed over 1 km before this profile was derived. An unsmoothed urban surface carries the buildings and would assert a climb that is not there.
0 5 10 15 20 km
0 5 10 13.1 mi

  • flat all the way

Your 2 gels, at the orange marksFor a 1:55 finish, one every 40 minutes

  1. km 7.3mile 4.6
  2. km 14.7mile 9.1

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The course in short 2 lines
  • Sea level along the Promenade des AnglaisThe high point is at 8.7 km, the low point at 17.0 km, 6.8 m apart.
  • Start and finish on the Promenade des AnglaisA gold-label half on the seafront; 3 hours; 9,000 finishers in 2025.
Course notes 2 short reads on the course
km 0 to 21.1GradientSea level along the Promenade des AnglaisThe high point is at 8.7 km, the low point at 17.0 km, 6.8 m apart.

The organiser’s 2026 course runs between 4.1 m and 10.9 m above sea level, a spread of 6.8 m. The highest point is at 8.7 km and the lowest at 17.0 km. Altogether the half marathon climbs 19.8 m. The organiser gives 65 m of positive climb, which counts every short rise from underpasses and kerbs.

Measured

Whole courseFinishStart and finish on the Promenade des AnglaisA gold-label half on the seafront; 3 hours; 9,000 finishers in 2025.

For the 34th edition, on 19 April 2026, the organiser put the 21.1 km start on the Promenade des Anglais facing the Le Méridien hotel and the finish on the same promenade facing the Jardin Albert 1er. The time limit was 3 hours. The French athletics federation gives the race its gold label, which makes it a qualifier for the French championships, and in 2025 9,000 runners took part in the 21.1 km, 16% of them international.

Sourced

Race fuel

Energy gel
An energy gel sachet
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2 gels for Nice, plus 1 spare

Finish

One every 40 minutes, the orange marks on the profile. Nice stays within 7 m23 ft of height, so they go by the clock:

  1. km 7.3mile 4.6
  2. km 14.7mile 9.1

Our pick: SiS BETA Fuel gel, box of 6, strawberry and lime. 40 g of carbohydrate a gel, about twice a usual gel, from two kinds of sugar your body takes up side by side.

Easy to forget on race morning: pack them with your bib the night before.

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In Canada the button opens GU Energy Gel, Salted Caramel, 24-pack, the best seller there.

Outside the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, the UK and Ireland, Spain and Portugal, Italy, the rest of the EU and Canada the button opens GU Energy Gel, Chocolate Outrage, 24-pack on Amazon.com, the best seller there.

Anti-chafe
Compeed Anti-blister stick
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An invisible layer before the start keeps seams, straps and shoes from rubbing skin raw.

Put it on before you leave for the start: heels and toes, inner thighs, under a bra or heart-rate strap.

Try it on a long run first, like everything you use on race day.

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Number belt
A race number belt
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Compressport Race Belt

Holds your bib without safety pins through your top, with loops for up to 8 gels.

Clip the bib on the night before, so it goes on with your shorts in the morning.

Keep the number on the front, where officials and photographers can see it.

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Electrolytes
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SiS Hydro electrolyte tablets, tube of 20

One tablet in a bottle puts back some of the salt you sweat out.

One tablet in 500 ml of water in the hour before the start.

Only if you have used them in training: nothing new on race day.

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Blister plasters
Compeed Blister plasters, medium, 6
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Compeed blister plasters, medium, 6

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One in a pocket cushions a blister if one starts.

Put it on clean, dry skin and leave it until it comes off by itself.

Give a couple to whoever comes to cheer, so they are there at the km you need them.

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distance
21.1 km13.1 mi
climb
19.8 m65 ft
cut-off
3:00 h

The Nice Half Marathon is a flat course of 21.1 km with 19.8 m of climbing. Its lowest point is 4 m and its highest 11 m above sea level.

Trip

Getting a place

Entry through the organiser

Entry details on the organiser’s site →

The organiser, a third party. We take no entries and have no part in the race.

Sources and licence

Last checked.

Course line matched onto OpenStreetMap road geometry: (c) OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License 1.0 (ODbL). Elevation sampled from GEDTM30, Global Ensemble Digital Terrain Model at 30 m (v1.2): Elevation: GEDTM30 (Ho & Hengl, OpenGeoHub), CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

Elevation gain computed by us from that line, smoothed over 1 kmsmoothed over 0.6 mi.

The line follows the road down its middle, so it measures 1.66% longer than the certified distance, which is measured on the shortest legal line through every bend.

Date and entry information from the organiser.

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