Dear running friends!

Let us celebrate a wonderful running experience on the beautiful running course through the the city of Mozart!

The 21th edition of the Salzburg Marathon will take place as the climax of the Running Festival of the MozartCity from 5th to 12th May, 2024 in Salzburg with a large offer of competitions and running programs to  participate in.
We invite you to a special running experience in  Salzburg. The Running Festival of MozartCity is your stage. Make your  running dreams come true! Enjoy a unique spectacle in front of a  wonderful scenery! Dive into all the facets that make a successful  running weekend! Feel the sound of running!

The Running Festival of  Mozart City provides you a large active-program over three days  including competitions for every runner. A perfect opportunity to  highlight your trip to Salzburg with a common running experience  together with your family or your friends.

The very flat running course, measured according to the specifications  of AIMS and World Athletics, leads you directly to most of the famous  places of Mozarts’s hometown.

See you soon at the Running Festival of Mozart City!

Course details

Course profile
Flat

Course highlights

There is a lap of 21.097 kilometres at the Salzburg Marathon that hast to be run twice by the participants of the main competition. You start at Ferdinand-Hanusch-Platz, directly in the centre of the city. Your way leads you alongside river Salzach to Salzburgs beautiful natural part – a guarantee for fresh air! After the beautiful, three kilometers long and straight Hellbrunner Allee you reach the courtyard of world-known Hellbrunn Palace. Through a wooden area and via Morzg you will come back to the urban area of Salzburg. When you have passed the little lake Leopoldskron, you will reach the northest part of the course: Lehener Brücke. Crossed river Salzach you will pass Mirabell Palace, one of the best known sights of Salzburg, and you will have a beautiful view on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage of Salzburg’s old town crossing the “Staatsbrücke“. This are the last hunderts of meters of the first lap. The half marathon runners enjoy the great finish straight with a exclusive view on the fortress Hohensalzburg, the most visited sight in Salzburg. The marathon runners will enjoy that moment after have completed the second lap.

Start address: Ferdinand-Hanusch-Platz, 5020 Salzburg, Austria

Finish address: Hofstallgasse, 5020 Salzburg, Austria

 

Route map