GAP factor 0.3% slower than flat · net elevation -2 m
Decision summary
Lower than 84% of comparable mapped races
Historical race-date favourability, not a forecast
Verified GPS route
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RaceIndex has a GPS course file for SwissCityMarathon – Lucerne Marathon, so runners can inspect the route line on the map. Elevation charts and ascent figures appear only when that file includes usable elevation data.
The SwissCityMarathon – Lucerne Marathon route has 162 m of ascent, 163 m of descent and an estimated 0.3% grade-adjusted pace penalty versus a flat route.
The SwissCityMarathon – Lucerne Marathon route starts at Verkehrshaus der Schweiz (Swiss Museum of Transport), Lucerne and finishes at Verkehrshaus der Schweiz (Swiss Museum of Transport), Lucerne. Underfoot, expect a road course. It passes Kapellbrücke (Chapel Bridge), Wasserturm (Water Tower), KKL Luzern (Culture and Convention Centre), Horw Peninsula and Lake Lucerne (Vierwaldstättersee). Single-loop course (since 2025) running out to Alpnachstad and back along Lake Lucerne and Alpnachersee, passing through the FC Luzern stadium and the KKL before the Old Town finish at the Transport Museum.
Roughly 30 musical groups perform along the course with around 50,000 spectators (an 'atmosphere zone' in Horw). Pacemakers offered for target times 3:00, 3:15, 3:30, 3:40, 3:50, 4:00, 4:15, 4:30, 4:45 and 5:00.
The stored route produces 162 m of ascent, while a source states 190 m. GPS sampling and elevation models can produce different totals, so both are labelled rather than combined.
Its normalised GAP factor is 0.3% slower than a flat course, with about 162 m of total ascent.