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Walt Disney World Marathon weather
January 10, 2027 · Bay Lake, FL · traditional start around 4:30 AM (America/New_York) — not yet confirmed for 2027. What the start usually feels like, year by year — and a live start-time read once the race confirms its schedule and race week arrives.
Countdown
137 days to race day
The live race-day forecast unlocks 131 days from now, when January 10, 2027 enters the 7-day forecast window. Until then, live hourly data is not available; the history below shows what race morning usually looks like.
The 2027 start time hasn't been published yet — the 4:30 AM start shown here is carried from a previous edition. We'll switch on the live start-time read when the race posts its schedule.
Typical start temp
58°F
median of 11 years
A warm year
63°F
75th percentile start temp
Rain at the start
0%
0 of 11 measured years
Race-morning weather history
Pre-dawn January start, highly variable — editions have ranged from cold soaking rain to hot and humid. The Saturday half of the 2017 weekend was cancelled for lightning risk (the marathon still ran); 2021 has no in-person results. Wyndo tracks what past editions of the race actually served up at the start hour — temperature, dew point, wind, and rain, and reads the live forecast for the start once the race confirms its schedule and race week arrives.
Median start temp
58°F
p75 (a warm year): 63°F
Median dew point
57°F
at the start hour
Rain at the start
0%
0 of 11 measured years
Warmest start
72°F
in 2020
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| Year | Start temp | Dew point | Wind | Precip (start hr) | Day's high |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 63°F | 61°F | 3 mph | dry | 77°F |
| 2025 | 43°F | 37°F | 7 mph | dry | 61°F |
| 2024 | 58°F | 57°F | 7 mph | dry | 66°F |
| 2023 | 51°F | 47°F | 4 mph | dry | 75°F |
| 2022 | 63°F | 59°F | 7 mph | dry | 79°F |
| 2020 | 72°F | 68°F | 8 mph | dry | 83°F |
| 2019 | 63°F | 59°F | 4 mph | dry | 79°F |
| 2018 | 40°F | 35°F | 9 mph | dry | 64°F |
| 2017 | 37°F | 30°F | 13 mph | dry | 52°F |
| 2016 | 68°F | 66°F | 10 mph | dry | 69°F |
| 2015 | 52°F | 48°F | 5 mph | dry | 74°F |
Each row is the weather at a real past edition's date and this race's current start hour (ERA5 reanalysis at the start line).
Your heat-adjusted goal for the marathon
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
- Epcot parking-lot area, Walt Disney World Resort (~15 mi SW of Orlando city center — a city-center geocode is badly wrong here). Coordinates are the official Race Roster event pin: a resort/venue pin, approximate for the start corrals, not a surveyed line.
- Traditional start (not confirmed for 2027)
- 4:30 AM (America/New_York) — Carried from 2026: marathon first corral 4:30 AM ET, corrals in waves (event opens 2:30 AM); 5K/10K/half started 5:00 AM that weekend. Sourced from dated secondary guides citing runDisney (rundisney.com blocks automated fetch). No earlier wheelchair gun found in any source. 2027 times unpublished as of 2026-08-26.
- Field size
- 2026 marathon finishers (marathon race only, not weekend total), per FindMyMarathon (aggregator; official runDisney results not accessible to automated fetch).
- Registration
- open (Race Roster); high-demand — races/challenges historically sell out; 2027 status unverified
Wyndo is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Walt Disney World Marathon (officially the "Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend") 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.