Boston Marathon 2026 forecast predicts cold weather
The 2026 Boston Marathon forecast predicts much cold temperatures following an unseasonably warm week.
Last year, Kenyon runners John Korir and Sharon Lokedi each basked under sunny, comfortable conditions at the finish line on Boylston Street after winning the 129th running of the Boston Marathon . Now the question remains, will this year's runners of the world's oldest marathon race be blessed with similar weather conditions ? The 130th running of the Boston Marathon, established in 1897, is set to take place on Marathon Monday/Patriots Day, April 20.
More than 30,000 athletes begin at Hopkinton and end with a sprint on Boylston Street. Temperatures that day in 2025 ranged from the upper 40s at the start of the race and capped off near 60 in the early afternoon hours. Korir, who captured first in the Chicago marathon six months earlier, won his first Boston Marathon in the men's division despite taking a spill in the first steps of the race in Hopkinton.
He joined his brother older brother, Wesley, who won in Boston himself in 2012. Lokedi smashed the Boston Marathon course record by more than two minutes, outlasting two-time defending champion Hellen Obiri, to whom she lost a year before in one of the closest finishes in race history. In the wheelchair division, Switzerland's Marcel Hug won his eighth marathon and fifth straight in the men's race.
Susannah Scaroni of the United States claimed the women’s title. Who will step up this year? We will find out soon enough.