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O'side Turkey Trot weather
November 26, 2026 · Oceanside, CA · scheduled start 7:00 AM (America/Los_Angeles). 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 7:00 AM start. Until then, live hourly data is not available; the history below shows what race morning usually looks like.
Typical start temp
55°F
median of 20 years
A warm year
57°F
75th percentile start temp
Rain at the start
10%
2 of 20 measured years
Race-morning weather history
Coastal north-San-Diego-County Thanksgiving mornings: typically cool with possible marine layer. 2020 virtual-only; pre-2026 editions included a 5-mile variant. 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
55°F
p75 (a warm year): 57°F
Median dew point
45°F
at the start hour
Rain at the start
10%
2 of 20 measured years
Warmest start
63°F
in 2017
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| Year | Start temp | Dew point | Wind | Precip (start hr) | Day's high |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 57°F | 44°F | 5 mph | dry | 81°F |
| 2024 | 55°F | 53°F | 2 mph | dry | 76°F |
| 2023 | 58°F | 41°F | 3 mph | dry | 71°F |
| 2022 | 50°F | 33°F | 5 mph | dry | 79°F |
| 2021 | 54°F | 19°F | 8 mph | dry | 79°F |
| 2020 | 53°F | 48°F | 2 mph | dry | 67°F |
| 2019 | 52°F | 47°F | 10 mph | dry | 57°F |
| 2018 | 61°F | 58°F | 4 mph | 0.8 mm | 69°F |
| 2017 | 63°F | 46°F | 5 mph | dry | 91°F |
| 2016 | 53°F | 42°F | 7 mph | dry | 83°F |
| 2015 | 55°F | 43°F | 2 mph | dry | 64°F |
| 2014 | 55°F | 35°F | 7 mph | dry | 88°F |
| 2013 | 52°F | 42°F | 4 mph | dry | 68°F |
| 2012 | 55°F | 49°F | 2 mph | dry | 72°F |
| 2011 | 53°F | 50°F | 5 mph | dry | 61°F |
| 2010 | 44°F | 40°F | 4 mph | dry | 63°F |
| 2009 | 53°F | 25°F | 7 mph | dry | 81°F |
| 2008 | 58°F | 57°F | 3 mph | 0.5 mm | 62°F |
| 2007 | 55°F | 49°F | 0 mph | dry | 66°F |
| 2006 | 58°F | 53°F | 0 mph | dry | 73°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 5k
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
- 330 N. Coast Highway (organizer-published start address for the 5K waves; building-level geocode, approximate).
- Scheduled start
- 7:00 AM (America/Los_Angeles) — 2026 waves: Early Wave 5K 7:00 AM PT (first mass start), Main Wave 8:00 (the biggest), 5K Walk 8:15; kids events 10:00/10:25 at a DIFFERENT start (Tyson & Pacific). "Double Dip" entrants run both 5K waves. No wheelchair/elite gun published.
- Field size
- 2025 timed results on Race Roster, summed per-division (scout-verified) — timed-results class, not registrants; walk/kids coverage in the sum unverified.
- Registration
- open (Race Roster; per-wave sub-events; no cap language found)
Wyndo is not affiliated with or endorsed by the O'side Turkey Trot (officially the "O'side Turkey Trot") 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.