The Stavanger Marathon is held in central Stavanger in southwestern Norway and organized by the local athletics club GTI Friidrettsklubb.
The 2027 race is scheduled for Saturday, August 28, starting downtown at 9 a.m., with a marathon, half marathon, 5K and kids' races.
The marathon and half marathon start in front of Stavanger Cathedral and finish at the same spot,
while the 5K starts from the bike path next to Mariero station and runs the last 5km of the marathon into the city center.
The marathon loops around three lakes and follows Hafrsfjord and Gandsfjorden.
Just over half is asphalt and the rest is easy-running gravel, with about 280m of total climb.
The half marathon passes Mosvatnet lake and the Sverd i fjell (Swords in Rock) monument on the shore of Hafrsfjord,
then returns along Gandsfjorden on bike paths.
The half marathon is 80 percent asphalt with about 130m of climb.
In 2025 about 4,300 runners took part across all races, with the half marathon the biggest at 2,400.
That year the time limit was 6 hours for the marathon and 3 hours 30 minutes for the half marathon.
The course records are 2:33:03 for the marathon (2024) and 1:05:20 for the half marathon (2025).
In the marathon, pacers run every 15 minutes from 3:30 to 4:30, and in the half marathon every 5 minutes from 1:20 to 2:30.
