The route
Next edition8 November 2026
42.2 km from Nice to Cannes: the Promenade des Anglais, Saint-Laurent-du-Var, Antibes, Golfe-Juan, to La Croisette.
Drawn with a pen, line by line
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On the French Riviera, this marathon links Nice to Cannes along a single line, never doubling back to its start. It hugs the sea for nearly the whole route, between beaches and marinas.
The start goes off at 8 am on Nice's seafront, the Promenade des Anglais. The route follows the shoreline to Saint-Laurent-du-Var, then Cagnes-sur-Mer, passing the Hippodrome and the Parc des Maurettes on the approach to Villeneuve-Loubet.
It then crosses Antibes, then Vallauris Golfe-Juan, along the coast road linking the seaside towns of the Alpes-Maritimes, before reaching the Cannes coastline.
The finish is in front of the Palais des Festivals, in Cannes, on the seafront Boulevard de la Croisette, inside the 6-hour cut-off. The route follows the bay for its final kilometres, to the finish line.
Paths and places: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
02 · Your poster
The course, from Nice to Cannes, takes shape street by street on the poster: our pen plotter draws it with a pen, line by line. Your finisher name and time go in the title block, in A4, A3 or A2.
Shipped from our workshop in Le Bouscat
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Updated Route and text: Plotrek workshop (Fabrice Jolivet)
Start: Promenade des Anglais (Nice). Finish: La Croisette (Cannes), 42.195 km further on. The 2026 edition is scheduled for Sunday, 8 November 2026. For the 2026 edition, the organiser's website gives a start time of 8 am. First landmark on Plotrek's route: Saint-Laurent-du-Var, at km 8.3.
Landmarks on Plotrek's route: Saint-Laurent-du-Var at km 8.3, Villeneuve-Loubet at km 17, Antibes at km 22.4, then Golfe-Juan at km 35. The last one, Golfe-Juan, is about 7.3 km from the finish, La Croisette (Cannes). These landmarks are a selection of named places along the route, not a full list of what it passes.
6 hours to cover the 42.195 km, according to the organiser's website (2026 edition, read on 17 September 2026). That is an average pace of about 8 min 32 s per kilometre over the whole distance. The time limit can change from one edition to the next; the organiser's rules prevail.
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