Course guide · October
Map, elevation profile and full guide to the Frankfurt Marathon course: where it goes, its flat layout beneath the banking skyline and the legendary red-carpet finish inside the Festhalle.
Course · 42.195 km
The Frankfurt Marathon route is fast and flat, ideal for a personal best. It runs through the city's financial centre beneath its skyscrapers, crosses the river Main into the historic Sachsenhausen district and finishes with one of the most spectacular endings in the world: a red carpet inside the Festhalle.
Whether you're running it for the first time or want to relive the course you already conquered, this guide walks you through where it goes, what its profile is like and what you'll find in each section.
Frankfurt is the only German city with a true skyscraper skyline, and the marathon makes the most of it. The course is flat and fast, running much of its distance among the glass towers of the banking district, giving the race a very different feel from other European marathons.
The route crosses the river Main into Sachsenhausen, the historic district of apple-wine taverns. The riverside walks, known as the Museumsufer for their museums, offer some of the most pleasant kilometres of the course.
The central part of the race heads into the quieter residential neighbourhoods of western Frankfurt, where the crowds cheer on every corner. This is where you manage your effort before taking on the spectacular finish back in the centre.
The end of the Frankfurt Marathon is legendary: runners enter the Festhalle, a great indoor arena, and run the final metres on a red carpet amid lights, music and the roar of the crowd. It's one of the most theatrical, thrilling finishes on the world calendar.
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It starts by the exhibition grounds (Messe), runs through the financial district among skyscrapers, crosses the river Main into Sachsenhausen and the Museumsufer, loops the western residential districts and returns to the centre to finish inside the Festhalle on a red carpet.
It's completely flat and fast, one of the best courses in Europe for a personal best. There are no notable climbs across the whole route.
It's one of the most spectacular in the world: runners enter the indoor Festhalle arena and cover the final metres on a red carpet, amid lights and music, with the crowd in the stands.
The Frankfurt Marathon is held in October and is one of the fastest marathons in Germany, a regular destination for runners chasing their best time.
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