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Feaster Five Road Race weather
November 26, 2026 · Andover, MA · scheduled start 8:30 AM (America/New_York). What the start usually feels like, year by year — and a live start-time read once the race is inside the 7-day forecast window.
Countdown
91 days to race day
The live race-day forecast unlocks 85 days from now, when November 26, 2026 enters the 7-day forecast window — a start-time read for the scheduled 8:30 AM start. Until then, live hourly data is not available; the history below shows what race morning usually looks like.
Typical start temp
32°F
median of 20 years
A warm year
38°F
75th percentile start temp
Rain at the start
15%
3 of 20 measured years
Race-morning weather history
Held 'rain or shine or snow'. Typical 8:30 starts in the low-to-mid 30s F; Thanksgiving 2018 was the brutal edition (high 22F / low 13F); 2014 followed a Thanksgiving-eve nor'easter. 2020 format UNVERIFIED — treat that year's in-person history as unknown. Wyndo tracks what this calendar slot has actually served up at the start hour — temperature, dew point, wind, and rain — including the years when weather canceled or disrupted the race, and reads the live forecast for the start once race week arrives.
Median start temp
32°F
p75 (a warm year): 38°F
Median dew point
28°F
at the start hour
Rain at the start
15%
3 of 20 measured years
Warmest start
46°F
in 2009
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| Year | Start temp | Dew point | Wind | Precip (start hr) | Day's high |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39°F | 28°F | 9 mph | dry | 54°F |
| 2024 | 35°F | 32°F | 4 mph | 0.2 mm | 43°F |
| 2023 | 40°F | 36°F | 10 mph | dry | 50°F |
| 2022 | 25°F | 21°F | 2 mph | dry | 46°F |
| 2021 | 30°F | 18°F | 7 mph | dry | 51°F |
| 2020 | 38°F | 38°F | 5 mph | 1.1 mm | 51°F |
| 2019 | 42°F | 39°F | 11 mph | 0.9 mm | 49°F |
| 2018 | 8°F | -4°F | 10 mph | dry | 21°F |
| 2017 | 29°F | 19°F | 8 mph | dry | 41°F |
| 2016 | 32°F | 25°F | 3 mph | dry | 41°F |
| 2015 | 35°F | 32°F | 5 mph | dry | 56°F |
| 2014 | 33°F | 30°F | 6 mph | dry | 36°F |
| 2013 | 30°F | 17°F | 14 mph | dry | 38°F |
| 2012 | 31°F | 29°F | 4 mph | dry | 53°F |
| 2011 | 30°F | 26°F | 6 mph | dry | 43°F |
| 2010 | 28°F | 6°F | 8 mph | dry | 38°F |
| 2009 | 46°F | 45°F | 1 mph | dry | 51°F |
| 2008 | 29°F | 26°F | 3 mph | dry | 44°F |
| 2007 | 41°F | 41°F | 1 mph | dry | 58°F |
| 2006 | 35°F | 32°F | 10 mph | dry | 44°F |
Slot climatology: each row is the weather at this race's usual calendar slot and start hour (ERA5 reanalysis at the start line) — including years when the edition was canceled or moved. A computed slot date is not a claim the race ran that day.
Your heat-adjusted goal for the 5-miler
The same cited model as the full calculator, pointed at this race: the median start-hour conditions this calendar slot has served up — climatology, not a forecast.
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Race facts
- Start line
- Shawsheen Square, Routes 28 & 133 (Haverhill St), Andover (official site; geocode). Finish line unverified — Brickstone Square is confirmed only as parking.
- Scheduled start
- 8:30 AM (America/New_York) — 2026 official: 5K and 5-Mile start TOGETHER at 8:30 AM ET at Shawsheen Square; the kids fun run goes 7:45 at Balmoral Park — a DIFFERENT venue, not an earlier wave here. No wheelchair gun or waves published.
- Field size
- 2025 in-person finishers (Race Roster; organizer claims are registrant-scale and mutually inconsistent: '7,000' vs 'more than 7,500').
- Registration
- open (Race Roster, tiered; organized by the Merrimack Valley Striders)
Wyndo is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Feaster Five Road Race (officially the "Feaster Five Road Race, presented by Schneider Electric") or its organizers. Race names are used descriptively to identify the event; schedules and start times belong to the race — always confirm details on the official site. Weather guidance here is informational, never medical advice, and event alert flags on race day belong to the race's own medical team.