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The 37th Marrakech International Marathon is on Sunday 31 January 2027. If you are running it, the logistics below matter more than they look — particularly the bib collection window, which decides your flights.
The confirmed schedule
- Marathon (42.195 km): Sunday 31 January, start 07:45.
- Half marathon (21.1 km): Sunday 31 January, start 09:15.
- Course For All (5 km): Saturday 30 January, start 09:00.
- Bib collection: Thursday 29 and Friday 30 January, 09:30–19:30, Koutoubia Square.
- Online entries close: 24 January 2027.
Because collection closes on Friday evening, you need to be in Marrakech by Friday at the latest. For most runners that makes it a four or five day trip, not a weekend.
Confirm times on the official race site before booking non-refundable flights.
Why a group connection beats individual SIMs here
Race weekend is the clearest case we see for a shared router rather than a SIM each. A typical group is a runner plus two or three supporters, and everyone needs data at the same moments:
- Supporters leapfrogging the course. Two or three people navigating between viewing points, all needing maps and live location at 08:30 on a Sunday.
- Live tracking. Following a runner’s tracker while moving across the city is a steady data drain on somebody’s phone.
- The runner carries almost nothing. Most people run with a phone on flight mode or no phone at all — so the connection needs to live with the support crew, not the athlete.
- Phone battery is the real constraint. Using one phone as a hotspot for three others will flatten it by lunchtime. A router with up to 8 hours of battery does that job instead.
One of our routers covers up to 10 devices on unlimited 4G with no daily cap and no throttling, up to 300 Mbps on Maroc Telecom.
What it costs
| Length of stay | Router total | Per person if 4 of you share it |
|---|---|---|
| 3 days | €14.70 | €3.68 |
| 5 days | €24.50 | €6.12 |
| 7 days | €34.30 | €8.58 |
| 10 days | €49.00 | €12.25 |
A five-day trip is €24.50 for the router. Split between four people that is about €6 each for the whole weekend — less than a single airport SIM card, and nobody has to register a passport or swap out their home SIM.
Practical notes
- We deliver and collect free, including at Marrakech Menara airport, and same-day delivery is possible subject to availability. Nothing is posted to you and nothing has to be posted back.
- Add a power bank for €1.90 a day if the crew is out from 06:30 to lunchtime. It is the accessory people wish they had booked.
- Agree a meeting point at the finish before the start. The finish area is loud and crowded and phones are the backup plan, not the plan.
- Late January is 10 °C at the start and around 18–20 °C by early afternoon. Warm enough at the finish to want the throwaway layer gone.
Booking is a two-day minimum and the daily rate is flat, so a race weekend needs no calculation beyond 4.90 × the number of days.
