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A climb of 43 m to km 4, downhill to km 9, then a slow rise of 11 m home.
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The race starts and finishes on the square, and every lap comes back through it from Ilica.
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km 8.4mile 5.2
Every lap crosses Trg Eugena Kvaternika from Vlaška ulica onto Maksimirska cesta.
km 15.7mile 9.8
Every lap passes Trg Nikole Zrinskog on the way back west, between Ulica Milana Amruša and Ulica Nikole Tesle.
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km 16.4mile 10.2
Every lap crosses Trg Republike Hrvatske from Masarykova ulica onto Prilaz Gjure Deželića.
Height drawn many times taller than life. Heights: GEDTM30.
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The 2026 race started at 9:00 on Sunday 11 October on Ban Josip Jelačić Square and finished there. The marathon was one lap of 21 km and two laps of 10 km.
The long lap went out through Jurišićeva and Draškovićeva, turned at Gračanska cesta in the north, came back to Vlaška and went east along Maksimirska cesta to a turn at number 150. It then returned west and finished through Ilica to the square. Each 10 km lap went out along Maksimirska cesta to a turn a little past Josipa Sermagea, and came back through Ilica. The half marathon was the single 21 km lap.
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The 2026 marathon had a time limit of 5 hours 30 minutes. The programme put the last marathon runner at the finish at 14:30, which is that limit counted from the 9:00 start.
Refreshment stations stood at 4, 7, 14, 18, 22, 25, 29, 32, 35, 39 and 42 km. The first had water only; the rest had water, sports drink and fruit. At the finish every runner received a bottle of water, a bottle of sports drink and fruit, and the changing rooms and bag drop were in Kurelčeva Street.
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The 2026 course went north from Ban Josip Jelačić Square up Medveščak and Ksaverska cesta to the turn at Gračanska cesta, rising from about 128 m to about 172 m by km 4. That turn is the highest point of the race, and the runners came back down the same road.
From km 8.5 to the finish, along Vlaška, Maksimirska cesta, the streets of the lower town and Ilica, the course stays between 117 m and 130 m. The lowest point comes on the first 10 km lap, near km 24. The total climb on the card adds up every short rise over the whole race; the one long climb is the first 4 km.
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A multi-lap race that started and finished on Ban Josip Jelačić Square: one 21 kilometre lap north up Ksaverska cesta to Gračanska cesta and east along Maksimirska cesta, then two 10 kilometre laps, each coming back down Ilica to the square.
The Zagreb Marathon is a multi-lap course of 42.2 km with 104.3 m of climbing. Its lowest point is 117 m and its highest 172 m above sea level.
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Zagreb Athletics Federation (ZAS), a third party. We take no entries and have no part in the race.
Imagery: Google Earth0:59 filmBeijing, China
Oct 202742.2 kmClimb 41 m
Climb summed after smoothing the heights over 1 km. The edge is this course's height profile on one scale for every race: 250 m above its lowest point fills it.
Casablanca, Morocco
Oct 202742.2 kmClimb 119 m
Climb summed after smoothing the heights over 1 km. The edge is this course's height profile on one scale for every race: 250 m above its lowest point fills it. Photo: Hassan II Mosque, by Tinuzzo, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Cologne, Germany
Oct 202742.2 kmClimb 82 m
Climb summed after smoothing the heights over 1 km. The edge is this course's height profile on one scale for every race: 250 m above its lowest point fills it. Photo: Cologne Cathedral, by Jiuguang Wang, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Sun 17 Oct 202742.2 kmClimb 70 m
Climb summed after smoothing the heights over 1 km. The edge is this course's height profile on one scale for every race: 250 m above its lowest point fills it. Photo: Ljubljana Castle, by LjGrad, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Imagery: Google Earth0:58 filmEntry openBudapest, Hungary
Sun 10 Oct 202742.2 kmClimb 75 m
Climb summed after smoothing the heights over 1 km. The edge is this course's height profile on one scale for every race: 250 m above its lowest point fills it.
Imagery: Google Earth0:59 filmVenice, Italy
Sun 24 Oct 202742.2 kmClimb 25 m
Climb summed after smoothing the heights over 1 km. The edge is this course's height profile on one scale for every race: 250 m above its lowest point fills it.
Imagery: Google Earth4:02 filmNew York, United States
Nov 202742.2 kmClimb 104 m
Climb summed after smoothing the heights over 1 km. The edge is this course's height profile on one scale for every race: 250 m above its lowest point fills it.
Imagery: Google Earth0:58 filmLucerne, Switzerland
Sun 31 Oct 202742.2 kmClimb 105 m
Climb summed after smoothing the heights over 1 km. The edge is this course's height profile on one scale for every race: 250 m above its lowest point fills it.
Imagery: Google Earth3:12 filmBoston, United States
Mon 19 Apr 202742.2 kmClimb 105 m
Climb summed after smoothing the heights over 1 km. The edge is this course's height profile on one scale for every race: 250 m above its lowest point fills it.Not entirely. It has 104.3 m of climbing over 42.2 km. The highest point is 54 m above the lowest.
Entry is through the organiser. Entry fee: €65 (for the 2026 race). Entry details on the organiser’s site
Runners have 5 h 30 min to finish.
622 runners finished in 2024.
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