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TCS New York City Marathon

New York, NY · Sunday, November 1, 2026

TCS New York City Marathon official site →registration and course details
Race day
Sunday, November 1, 2026
Climb
851 fttotal ascent
Race-week weather
46°F to 61°Ften-year normals, 16% of days wet

Fly the course

All 26.2 miles through a model of New York built from OpenStreetMap: real building footprints, heights and roof shapes, the water, and the course line itself. Scrub it, switch cameras, or let it play.

Route statusa community trace of the current course; the official certified course is on the race's site. Run Ready's 2025 certified course trace, 42.36 km

Course line a community trace of the current course; the official certified course is on the race's site. Run Ready's 2025 certified course trace, 42.36 km Buildings, roads, parks and shorelines are OpenStreetMap, ODbL, so building coverage varies block to block. Public-domain USGS/USDA aerial imagery and USGS 3DEP terrain are served as static site assets; no paid map API runs in the browser. This is photographic terrain with modeled architecture, not photogrammetry. Bridge approaches, elevations and facade details remain approximate. The organizer's published route is the reference.

Accuracy check: drawn line is within 0.2% of the certified 26.2 miles; no part of the line passes through a building; 94% of it sits on a mapped road; closest it ever comes to a building wall is 3.1 m.

Note on bridge grades: Where a course crosses a bridge, the elevation now follows the deck rather than the ground underneath it. A terrain model contains no bridges, so it used to sample the riverbed and report a gorge the runner never descends. Decks are held level between their abutments and never allowed to sag below them; a genuine climb across a long span, like the Golden Gate approach, is left exactly as measured. The camber of a long suspension deck is not modelled, so a bridge that really does rise toward mid-span may read slightly flatter here than it feels.

The elevation profile

-40 10 60 110 160 210 260 Mile 0.0 to 0.2: +4.0% Mile 0.2 to 0.4: +1.5% Mile 0.4 to 0.6: +0.6% Mile 0.6 to 0.8: +0.8% Mile 0.8 to 1.0: +0.6% Mile 1.0 to 1.2: +0.5% Mile 1.2 to 1.4: +0.6% Mile 1.4 to 1.6: -2.1% Mile 1.6 to 1.8: -5.6% Mile 1.8 to 2.0: -6.6% Mile 2.0 to 2.2: +0.4% Mile 2.2 to 2.4: +2.3% Mile 2.4 to 2.6: -0.4% Mile 2.6 to 2.8: -0.5% Mile 2.8 to 3.0: +0.4% Mile 3.0 to 3.2: -0.0% Mile 3.2 to 3.4: +0.2% Mile 3.4 to 3.6: +0.4% Mile 3.6 to 3.8: -1.2% Mile 3.8 to 4.0: +1.4% Mile 4.0 to 4.2: +0.6% Mile 4.2 to 4.4: -0.7% Mile 4.4 to 4.6: -0.5% Mile 4.6 to 4.8: +0.1% Mile 4.8 to 5.0: -1.0% Mile 5.0 to 5.2: -2.1% Mile 5.2 to 5.4: -0.9% Mile 5.4 to 5.6: +0.4% Mile 5.6 to 5.8: -0.0% Mile 5.8 to 6.0: +0.9% Mile 6.0 to 6.2: +0.7% Mile 6.2 to 6.4: -0.3% Mile 6.4 to 6.6: -0.6% Mile 6.6 to 6.8: -1.0% Mile 6.8 to 7.0: +0.0% Mile 7.0 to 7.2: +0.1% Mile 7.2 to 7.4: +0.1% Mile 7.4 to 7.6: +0.1% Mile 7.6 to 7.8: +1.0% Mile 7.8 to 8.0: -0.5% Mile 8.0 to 8.2: +1.9% Mile 8.2 to 8.4: +1.9% Mile 8.4 to 8.6: +0.1% Mile 8.6 to 8.8: -1.6% Mile 8.8 to 9.0: +0.4% Mile 9.0 to 9.2: -1.6% Mile 9.2 to 9.4: -0.2% Mile 9.4 to 9.6: -1.1% Mile 9.6 to 9.8: -1.0% Mile 9.8 to 10.0: -0.3% Mile 10.0 to 10.2: +1.0% Mile 10.2 to 10.4: +1.6% Mile 10.4 to 10.6: -0.7% Mile 10.6 to 10.8: +0.2% Mile 10.8 to 11.0: +0.4% Mile 11.0 to 11.2: -1.6% Mile 11.2 to 11.4: +0.0% Mile 11.4 to 11.6: -0.9% Mile 11.6 to 11.8: -0.4% Mile 11.8 to 12.0: +0.2% Mile 12.0 to 12.2: +0.7% Mile 12.2 to 12.4: +0.7% Mile 12.4 to 12.6: -1.5% Mile 12.6 to 12.8: -0.2% Mile 12.8 to 13.0: -0.3% Mile 13.0 to 13.2: +1.5% Mile 13.2 to 13.4: -1.0% Mile 13.4 to 13.6: -0.1% Mile 13.6 to 13.8: -0.6% Mile 13.8 to 14.0: +0.5% Mile 14.0 to 14.2: +0.3% Mile 14.2 to 14.4: -0.1% Mile 14.4 to 14.6: +0.4% Mile 14.6 to 14.8: +0.3% Mile 14.8 to 15.0: +0.5% Mile 15.0 to 15.2: +0.5% Mile 15.2 to 15.4: +0.5% Mile 15.4 to 15.6: +0.6% Mile 15.6 to 15.8: +0.5% Mile 15.8 to 16.0: +0.4% Mile 16.0 to 16.2: -1.5% Mile 16.2 to 16.4: +0.1% Mile 16.4 to 16.6: +0.4% Mile 16.6 to 16.8: -1.2% Mile 16.8 to 17.0: +0.5% Mile 17.0 to 17.2: +0.8% Mile 17.2 to 17.4: +0.5% Mile 17.4 to 17.6: -1.4% Mile 17.6 to 17.8: -1.8% Mile 17.8 to 18.0: -0.2% Mile 18.0 to 18.2: +0.2% Mile 18.2 to 18.4: -0.1% Mile 18.4 to 18.6: -0.1% Mile 18.6 to 18.8: +0.0% Mile 18.8 to 19.0: +0.3% Mile 19.0 to 19.2: -0.3% Mile 19.2 to 19.4: +0.2% Mile 19.4 to 19.6: +1.3% Mile 19.6 to 19.8: -0.6% Mile 19.8 to 20.0: -0.2% Mile 20.0 to 20.2: +0.6% Mile 20.2 to 20.4: -0.5% Mile 20.4 to 20.6: -0.3% Mile 20.6 to 20.8: +0.1% Mile 20.8 to 21.0: +2.3% Mile 21.0 to 21.2: +0.1% Mile 21.2 to 21.4: +0.5% Mile 21.4 to 21.6: +0.3% Mile 21.6 to 21.8: +0.4% Mile 21.8 to 22.0: -0.3% Mile 22.0 to 22.2: +0.4% Mile 22.2 to 22.4: -0.3% Mile 22.4 to 22.6: -0.3% Mile 22.6 to 22.8: -0.1% Mile 22.8 to 23.0: +1.7% Mile 23.0 to 23.2: +1.4% Mile 23.2 to 23.4: +1.7% Mile 23.4 to 23.6: +2.1% Mile 23.6 to 23.8: -0.2% Mile 23.8 to 24.0: -0.8% Mile 24.0 to 24.2: -0.5% Mile 24.2 to 24.4: -0.5% Mile 24.4 to 24.6: -1.5% Mile 24.6 to 24.8: +2.0% Mile 24.8 to 25.0: -0.9% Mile 25.0 to 25.2: -2.4% Mile 25.2 to 25.4: -0.3% Mile 25.4 to 25.6: +2.4% Mile 25.6 to 25.8: +0.7% Mile 25.8 to 26.0: -0.6% Mile 26.0 to 26.2: +1.2% 5 10 15 20 25 mile +97 ft +130 ft
steep up up flat down steep down

851 feet of total climb across the 26.2, between 6 and 113 feet of elevation. the Fifth Avenue climb runs from mile 22.72 to 23.66, 97 feet up, about 100 feet of steady ascent over roughly a mile of Fifth Avenue, from Marcus Garvey Park to the Central Park entrance. Click the profile to jump the flythrough to that mile.

Mile by mile

Every mile of the course on the same vertical scale, so they compare at a glance. Net is what the mile does to your elevation; steepest fifth is the sharpest continuous fifth of a mile inside it, the same unit the colour strip above uses.

MileShapeNetElevation Steepest fifthStreets
1+107 ft218 ft+4.0%Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, Staten Island Expressway
2-171 ft48 ft-7.2%Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, Gowanus Expressway
3+28 ft76 ft+2.4%4th Avenue, 92nd Street, Dahlgren Place
4+5 ft81 ft+1.3%4th Avenue
5-24 ft59 ft-1.3%4th Avenue
6-20 ft37 ft-2.3%4th Avenue
7-12 ft25 ft-1.0%4th Avenue
8+14 ft39 ft+1.3%4th Avenue, Flatbush Avenue, Lafayette Avenue
9+31 ft71 ft+2.4%Lafayette Avenue
10-56 ft14 ft-1.9%Bedford Avenue, Lafayette Avenue
11+36 ft51 ft+1.6%Bedford Avenue
12-35 ft15 ft-1.7%Bedford Avenue, Manhattan Avenue, Nassau Avenue
13-4 ft12 ft-1.5%Manhattan Avenue, McGuinness Boulevard, Pulaski Bridge
14-3 ft11 ft+1.5%Pulaski Bridge, Vernon Boulevard, 48th Avenue
15+18 ft30 ft+0.6%44th Drive, Crescent Street, Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge Lower Roadway
16+30 ft60 ft+0.7%Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge Lower Roadway, Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge Upper Level
17-23 ft37 ft-1.5%1st Avenue, East 59th Street
18-30 ft8 ft-1.8%1st Avenue
19+4 ft12 ft+0.3%1st Avenue
20+17 ft29 ft+2.3%Willis Avenue Bridge, 1st Avenue, East 135th Street
21+6 ft33 ft+1.5%East 138th Street, Madison Avenue Bridge, Alexander Avenue
22+13 ft23 ft+0.5%5th Avenue, Mount Morris Park West, West 124th Street
23+15 ft38 ft+1.8%5th Avenue, West 120th Street, Mount Morris Park West
24+55 ft96 ft+2.2%5th Avenue
25-31 ft69 ft-2.7%Terrace Drive
26-3 ft67 ft+2.6%Central Park South, East Drive, Grand Army Plaza

The course on a map

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Course geometry a community trace of the current course; the official certified course is on the race's site. City geometry is OpenStreetMap, ODbL. Weather normals are ten years of Open-Meteo reanalysis around race day at the start line. Confirm dates and registration on the official site. Spot an error? Tell us and we'll fix it fast.