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Monterey Bay Half Marathon

A coastal half marathon along Cannery Row and Pacific Grove

Event Info

  Upcoming date: Saturday November 7, 2026

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  • All upcoming dates:

    • Saturday November 7, 2026
    • Sunday November 8, 2026

Race weekend opens Saturday, November 7, with the Pacific Grove Lighthouse 5K and By the Bay 3K on the Pacific Grove waterfront. On Sunday, November 8, the half marathon starts at 7 a.m. on Del Monte Avenue in downtown Monterey and runs out and back along Cannery Row and the Pacific Grove shoreline, finishing at Custom House Plaza. Expect morning road closures on the course. Stargazer Hotel is a short drive from the downtown start and finish.

Photo: "Monterey Bay Coastal Trail east of Monterey station, June 2018" by Pi.1415926535, via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monterey_Bay_Coastal_Trail_east_of_Monterey_station,_June_2018.JPG), licensed CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/). Resized.