Course guide · April
Map, elevation profile and full guide to the Paris Marathon course: where it goes, from the Champs-Élysées to the banks of the Seine, the Eiffel Tower and the city's two great woods.
Course · 42.195 km
The Paris Marathon route is a sightseeing tour of the city's great icons. It starts on the Champs-Élysées, crosses Place de la Concorde, runs through the Bois de Vincennes, follows the banks of the Seine beneath the Eiffel Tower and finishes by the Bois de Boulogne.
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.
Few marathons begin so majestically: the Champs-Élysées avenue, the Arc de Triomphe behind you and Place de la Concorde ahead. The opening kilometres drop toward the Bastille, surrounded by the most recognisable Haussmann architecture in Paris.
Around the midpoint, the route enters the Bois de Vincennes, the great park in eastern Paris. It's a green breather, with lakes and tree-lined avenues, before the course heads back toward the Seine and the more monumental second half.
The most spectacular stretch runs beside the Seine, through the right-bank tunnels, past Notre-Dame and beneath the Eiffel Tower. It's the definitive image of the Paris marathon, though the tunnels briefly cut the GPS signal and the noise of the crowd.
The final kilometres skirt the Bois de Boulogne, the great wood in the west, with gentle rolls that bite when the legs are already tired. The finish is on Avenue Foch, a step from the Arc de Triomphe where it all began.
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It starts on the Champs-Élysées, drops past Concorde and the Bastille to the Bois de Vincennes, returns along the banks of the Seine past Notre-Dame and beneath the Eiffel Tower, and finishes by the Bois de Boulogne on Avenue Foch.
The profile is largely flat, with a few gentle rolls beside the Seine and in the Bois de Boulogne. There are no hard climbs, so it's a good course for enjoying the city and chasing a solid time.
The start is on the Champs-Élysées, by the Arc de Triomphe. The finish is very close by, on Avenue Foch, after crossing the city from east to west.
The Paris Marathon (Schneider Electric Marathon de Paris) is held in April and is one of the largest in Europe, with tens of thousands of runners from around the world.
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