Course & Elevation
The Generali Berlin Half Marathon is a 21.0975 km road race through the centre of Berlin, starting on Strasse des 17. Juni between the Brandenburg Gate and the Victory Column and finishing just beyond the Brandenburg Gate. It is organised by SCC Events and held on a Sunday in late March or early April, with separate races over the same distance for inline skaters, wheelchair users and handbikers. The route leads through Ernst-Reuter-Platz to Charlottenburg Palace, along Kurfurstendamm, past Potsdamer Platz and the Gendarmenmarkt, along Karl-Marx-Allee, and back to the Brandenburg Gate. The organiser traces the race to the Lichtenberg Marathon of 1981 in East Berlin, which became the Friedenslauf; SC Charlottenburg started its own Berlin half marathon on 2 September 1984, and only the half marathon distance has been run since 1990. The 2026 race was the 45th edition and had a record 42,563 registered athletes from 134 nations. The course records are 58:42 for men (Eric Kiptanui, 2018) and 1:03:35 for women (Fotyen Tesfay, 2025). The finish line sits just behind the Brandenburg Gate.
Course Facts
Weather
Typical climate for the race month — an estimate, not a forecast or a race-day record
10°C
Temperature
67%
Humidity
36%
Rain Chance
Late March and early April in Berlin are cool: average highs in April are around 15°C and lows around 4°C, with measurable rain on about eleven days in the month.
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