Rock 'n' Roll Madrid Marathon 2027

Sunday, 25 April 2027 · Madrid, Spain

The weekend at a glance

Everything below is the organiser's 2027 information unless a line says otherwise. Start times and time limits are still marked "to be determined" on the organiser's own pages, so the times here come from the tourist board.

Your number

IFEMA, Feria de Madrid. Friday 23 and Saturday 24 April, 10:00 to 20:00. Nothing is handed out on race day

Start

Paseo de la Castellana at Plaza de Gregorio Marañón. First wave 8:45 according to the tourist board

Getting to it

Metro to Gregorio Marañón (lines 7 and 10) or Rubén Darío (line 5)

Finish

Paseo de Recoletos, between Cibeles and Colón

Bag check

Finish zone on the Castellana, between Hermosilla and Ortega y Gasset. Opens 7:00 and closes 17:00 for the marathon

Time limit

The finish line closes at 16:35 according to the tourist board. The organiser has not yet confirmed it

Climb

No figure from the organiser. Independent sources give about 200 m and about 400 m

Weather

The last five race mornings ran from 6.7 °C to 14.9 °C at 9:00 and up to 23.1 °C by 13:00

On this page

1. Getting to Madrid
2. Where to stay in Madrid
3. Collecting your number
4. Race morning
5. The course
6. Weather in Madrid in April
7. Afterwards
8. Other race weekends
9. Sources

Getting to Madrid

Barajas airport is 12 km north-east of the centre, and the metro is the quickest way in. Line 8 runs from Terminal 4 through Terminal 2 to Nuevos Ministerios, in under 20 minutes from T4 and 12 minutes from the other terminals. The tourist board says an airport supplement of €3 applies on top of the ticket when you enter or leave an airport station.

The Airport Express bus is the alternative, route 203, which takes about 40 minutes. It leaves Atocha station from 6:00 to 23:30 and Plaza de Cibeles through the night, every 15 minutes in the day, and costs €5.10 on board by card or cash. A taxi inside the Calle 30 ring road is a fixed €33.

Nuevos Ministerios is on the Castellana itself, 1.1 km from the start line at Gregorio Marañón, which is a 14-minute walk. The Cercanías C-1 train links Chamartín station to T4 every 20 minutes if you arrive by long-distance rail.

Where to stay in Madrid

The race has two ends on one avenue. The start is on the Castellana at Gregorio Marañón, and the finish at Recoletos is 2.3 km south of it, about a 30-minute walk. The bag check and the metro stops are at the finish end and the start end respectively, so the question is which end you want to be near at 7:00.

The first row leaves you walking to the bag check on the way home. The third and fourth put you within a short walk of the finish, with a metro ride to the start at the cost of an early alarm.

Collecting your number

Numbers are handed out at IFEMA, Feria de Madrid, on Friday 23 and Saturday 24 April 2027 from 10:00 to 20:00. Bibs are never given out on race day. The organiser puts the average time to collect your number, the official shirt and the runner's bag at 15 minutes, which will be longer on a busy Saturday afternoon.

Bring your registration confirmation or the pick-up QR code and photo ID, printed or on a phone. Someone else can collect for you with your documents.

Race morning

The bag check is on the Castellana in the finish zone, between Hermosilla and Ortega y Gasset, and opens at 7:00. It closes at 17:00 for the marathon and at 14:00 for the half. Chemical toilets stand at the start, the finish and every drinks station.

Metro is the way to the start, because the roads around it are closed and there is no parking near the finish. The organiser points runners to Gregorio Marañón (lines 7 and 10) and Rubén Darío (line 5). The tourist board lists the first marathon wave at 8:45, and the organiser's own start times for 2027 are not yet out, so work backwards from your own wave once they are.

The course

The tourist board lists the Bernabéu stadium, the Cuatro Torres business area, Puerta del Sol, the Royal Palace, Casa de Campo, Madrid Río and the Prado, and an independent guide adds Cibeles, the Puerta de Alcalá, the Retiro and the Gran Vía, which it calls the stretch with the loudest crowds.

The organiser publishes GPX files and course maps for every distance but gives no climb figure, so the sources quoted here disagree. One independent running guide counts about 200 m of climb across the 42 km, and another race-travel site counts around 400 m, with the start at 700 m above sea level and the finish at 628 m. The first guide also warns that the hills cost far more energy if you ran the opening kilometres too hard.

There is an extra gel stop at 30 km in the organiser's runner-bag information, and about 30 entertainment points on the way. The organiser's PDF maps show the drinks stations, and 2027's are not yet posted.

Weather in Madrid in April

Madrid is high and dry, and the mornings are cool before the sun gets over the buildings. These are the last five race days at Plaza de Cibeles, at 9:00 and at 13:00. The first wave starts at 8:45, so the 9:00 column is where you will be.

In 2026 the temperature rose by more than 8 °C between 9:00 and 13:00, so a back-of-the-pack runner meets a different race from the front.

Afterwards

Your bag is waiting in the finish zone until 17:00. The Airport Express runs from Atocha and Cibeles, the second of which is next to the finish line, and the metro to the airport runs from Nuevos Ministerios.

Other race weekends

Madrid Marathon is part of the European Marathon Classics. The series' other races with a guide here are Rome Marathon, Vienna City Marathon, TCS London Marathon, Copenhagen Marathon, Warsaw Marathon, Lisbon Marathon and Frankfurt Marathon.

Close by, and with guides of their own, are Zurich Seville Marathon, Valencia Marathon and Lisbon Half Marathon.

The next races with a guide

Copenhagen Marathon9 May 2027 · Copenhagen, Denmark Copenhagen Half Marathon19 September 2027 · Copenhagen, Denmark Berlin Marathon26 September 2027 · Berlin, Germany

All race weekend guides

Sources

Written from the organiser's published information and the app's own race data, checked on 2 October 2026.

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