Houston Marathon course map poster
The Houston Marathon starts downtown at Congress Avenue and Fannin Street and heads out along Washington Avenue and Heights Boulevard into Houston Heights. It runs through Montrose on Waugh Drive, West Gray and Kirby Drive, then along Main Street to Rice University and down University Boulevard through Rice Village.
From there it follows Weslayan and Westpark to Post Oak Boulevard by the Galleria, comes back through Tanglewood and Memorial Park, and returns downtown along Allen Parkway by Buffalo Bayou. It finishes on Lamar Street, one block from the George R. Brown Convention Center. Zouhair Talbi set the course record of 2:05:45 here in January 2026.
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The course
- Start
- Congress Avenue at Fannin Street, Downtown
- Finish
- Lamar Street at Crawford Street, by the George R. Brown Convention Center
- Passes through
- Downtown, Washington Avenue, Houston Heights, Montrose, Rice Village, Rice University, Uptown, Tanglewood, Memorial, Memorial Park and Buffalo Bayou
- Elevation
- Fast and flat.
Key facts
- First held
- 1972
- Month
- January
- Organiser
- Houston Marathon Committee
Along the way
- 15.0 km (9.3 mi)Rice UniversityAt Main Street and University Boulevard
- 16.4 km (10.2 mi)Rice VillageOn University Boulevard
- 23.3 km (14.5 mi)The GalleriaOn Post Oak Boulevard in Uptown
- 33.8 km (21.0 mi)Memorial ParkMemorial Drive through the park
- 39.9 km (24.8 mi)Buffalo Bayou ParkAlong Allen Parkway
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Questions
Yes. It's known as fast and flat, and the course is USATF certified.
Yes. The Houston Marathon has hosted three U.S. Olympic Trials Marathons.
In January. The 2026 race was on 11 January, and the 2027 race is sold out.
Yes. The editor starts with the city as the title and the distance below it. Type your name, your finish time or the race date in the caption, and change any of the words you like.
Yes. Every course comes in portrait sizes, 12 × 16 in and 18 × 24 in, and in square sizes, 16 × 16 in and 20 × 20 in. When you change the shape, the map moves so the whole course still fits.
We draw each course along OpenStreetMap streets, following the organiser's official course map. It can differ slightly from the measured course, which follows the shortest line a runner can take.
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