Wizz Air Budapest Félmaraton
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The Wizz Air Budapest Half Marathon is a half marathon through central Budapest, held on a Sunday in early September. It is run by the city sports office, Budapest Sportiroda (BSI), and opens its autumn running season. Start and finish are on the Pázmány Péter Promenade on the Buda side, beside the ELTE Lágymányos campus. The published route follows the lower embankment of Buda north to the Árpád Bridge, crosses the middle of Margaret Island and returns over the Margaret Bridge to the Pest side. It then runs south along the lower embankment of Pest to the Liberty Bridge, crosses back to Buda and follows the University Quay to the finish. The organisers say the course passes several UNESCO World Heritage sites. A 10 km race and two- and three-person relays are held on the same day. The race starts at 8:00 and the cut-off is three hours net time. The half marathon has run as a stand-alone September race since 1996, when the first Nike Budapest International Half Marathon drew nearly two thousand runners. In 2026 more than 24,000 entries were registered across all distances, a record for a Hungarian half marathon event, from 117 countries.
Typical climate for the race month — an estimate, not a forecast or a race-day record
Early September in Budapest is warm and mostly dry: average highs are around 23°C and lows around 13°C, with about six days of measurable rain in the month.
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The first decade of the Budapest half marathons was closely tied to the Budapest Marathons. After those were cancelled in 1994 and 1995, the first Nike Budapest International Half Marathon was held as an independent race on 8 September 1996. Instead of the expected Indian summer, nearly two thousand runners met a polar wind. For the first ten years the start and finish were in City Park, on the Kós Károly promenade.
More than 24,000 entries were registered for the 41st running in September 2026, with runners from 117 countries and 1,200 Hungarian towns, and 8,471 foreign runners entered. The half marathon alone drew more than 17,800 entries, which the organisers called the largest Hungarian half marathon ever.
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