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Hyderabad Marathon

హైదరాబాద్ మారథాన్

28/100 Moderate

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2026 edition held Aug 30, 2026

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Usually August

2027 date not yet confirmed

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The NMDC Hyderabad Marathon is a city marathon in Telangana, India, organised by the Hyderabad Runners Society and held on the last Sunday of August, in the middle of the monsoon season. The first Hyderabad Marathon was run in August 2011 and the 15th edition took place on 30 August 2026. The weekend also has a half marathon, a 10K and a 5K, and the main races are run early in the morning. The full marathon is a point-to-point race: it starts at 4:30am at People's Plaza on Necklace Road beside Hussain Sagar and finishes at the GMC Balayogi Stadium in Gachibowli. The organisers call the route a Tale of Two Cities, linking the old city with the technology corridor of Cyberabad. Runners go along Necklace Road, Raj Bhavan Road, the Monorail Circle and the Jubilee Hills check post, then along Road No. 45 through Film Nagar and Shaikpet to Narsingi and the Outer Ring Road junction, and the 2026 route also crossed the Durgam Cheruvu cable bridge. The marathon course is AIMS-certified, and the race holds World Athletics Label status. In 2026 about 32,000 registrations were received and runners from 23 countries took part. The course records are 2:17:27 for men and 2:39:27 for women, both set in 2025.

Surface: road Profile: Flat

Weather

Typical climate for the race month — an estimate, not a forecast or a race-day record

Temperature 26°C
Humidity 70%
Rain Chance 36%

August in Hyderabad is warm and wet: highs average about 30°C and lows about 22°C, humidity is around 70%, and it rains on roughly eleven days of the month.

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A Running Club Starts a Marathon

2011

Hyderabad Runners began as a Google group in 2007, after its first run in May 2007 with just five runners, and was registered as a society in October 2010. It organised the first Hyderabad Marathon in August 2011, and Airtel sponsored the race from that first edition. The society still organises it, and the course was certified by AIMS in 2018.

A Photo Finish in 2026

2026

In the 2026 men's elite race Ethiopia's Seboka Negusse and Kenya's Felix Kimutai finished in the same time, 2:20:57, separated by a tenth of a second. Francis Cheruiyot of Kenya, the 2025 winner and the course record holder, was third in 2:21:29. The women's race went to Emane Seifu of Ethiopia in 2:46:29.

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Course Record

02:17:27

Francis Cheruiyot (2025)

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