Great Whitehaven Beach Run

About the Event

Run with purpose at Great Whitehaven Beach Run this June 21, 2026 in Whitsundays, Australia. An event featuring distances like 1K, Half-Marathon, 5K, 10K, Ultra that celebrates health, fitness, and determination. Sunday 21 June, 2026 Join us on pristine sands of famous Whitehaven Beach for the fun and challenging Great Whitehaven Beach Run! What you’ll love about the Great Whitehaven Beach Run: Challenge yourself to a half marathon, or a 10km or 5km run along Whitehaven Beach. Enter the kids in the 1.5km or 500m Junior Fun Run and make this fun event one for the whole family. Compete either in the Individual Open (with no qualification required and open prizes awarded across all distances) or the Individual Age Group (age categories subject to minimum competitor entries).

Races Offered

Half Marathon

Jun 21, 2026

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Distance — 21K

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Junior Medium Distance

Jun 21, 2026

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Distance — 1K

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Junior Short Distance

Jun 21, 2026

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Medium - 10km

Jun 21, 2026

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Distance — 10K

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Short - 5km

Jun 21, 2026

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Distance — 5K

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Weather History

These values represent the 3-year monthly averages for June in Whitsundays.

thermostat Temperature

20.1° / 22.7°

wb_sunny Feels like

18.1° / 22.3°

light_mode Avg sunshine hours

9h 17m

water_drop Avg rainfall

1.4 mm

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air Avg wind speed

17.5 km/h (Gentle breeze)

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High

terrain Course conditions

Hard and dry surface

sunny Max UV Index

Very High (9.6)

humidity_mid Humidity

73.3%

wb_twilight Sunrise

06:36

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17:31

About Whitsundays

Learn more about the host city, Whitsundays.

Whitsundays is an island group locality that consists of the Whitsunday Islands. It is in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia. It is off the Queensland east coast in the Coral Sea, which is a mix of inhabited and uninhabited islands. In the 2021 census, Whitsundays had a population of 2,281 people.