Marathon Sunday Weather in New York: A Cold Start Near 38 Degrees, Overcast Skies and a High Near 60
Runners heading to Staten Island before dawn will dress for winter and race into a mild afternoon — the station's live feed puts Sunday's low at 38.2 degrees with overcast skies and almost no rain risk.
Marathon morning will feel like a different season from marathon afternoon. The station's live weather feed, powered by Open-Meteo, puts Sunday's low at 38.2 degrees under overcast skies, with the temperature climbing to a high of 59.8 degrees later in the day and a precipitation reading of just 1 — a dry race, but a cold wait at the start.
That spread is the whole wardrobe problem. The first waves leave Staten Island in the morning cold after an early ferry ride — the MTA directs runners to the 1, R and W trains to South Ferry and Whitehall Street, or the 4 and 5 to Bowling Green, for the Staten Island Ferry, and Metro-North is adding early inbound trains reaching Grand Central between 5:15 and 5:30 a.m. Layers that can be shed before the start are the practical answer, and spectators along Fourth Avenue and First Avenue should dress for standing still in the 40s, not for the near-60 afternoon.
Tonight sets the pattern first: at early evening the feed showed 53.8 degrees and clear in the city, on the way to a Saturday-night low of 44.5, with no precipitation — dry conditions for the Halloween parade and for the overnight bridge and road preparations that precede the race.
By Monday the city warms again, with an overcast high of 63.6 degrees on the feed. For Sunday, though, the headline holds: dress for 38 at the start line, expect grey skies over all five boroughs, and plan on a mild, dry finish in Central Park.
