5k Runs Australia 2026-2027
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The 5k fun run calendar for Australia: 332 runs in 2026 and 2027, with dates, start locations and entry links. Australia is a parkrun country, and the 5k is the distance almost everyone has done at least once, which makes it the natural first run with a bib as well as the family option at the big city events. The front-runners are done in around a quarter of an hour, while most entrants jog, walk or push a pram across the line in 30 to 40 minutes. Pick a date or a place in the search below, or flick through the calendar a month at a time.
Popular cities
Most 5ks are held in and around the capitals. See what's on near Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and the Gold Coast.
What is in this calendar
Every event with a 5k among its distances is listed, whether that 5k is the headline act of a community fun run or the shortest option at a marathon weekend. Colour runs, charity runs for a hospital or a cause, school and family fun runs and the Christmas and New Year runs all count, and the event page sets out every distance with its start time and a link to entry. Keen on a 3k, a 4k or a 6k? Nudge the distance slider at the top of the page and the list widens.
Well-known 5ks
Run Melbourne in July runs a 5.5 km race on closed city roads alongside its 10k and half marathon, close enough to the distance to sit in this list, and most of the other big marathon weekends put on a short fun run on the Saturday or first thing on race morning. The famous names are not always 5ks, mind: City2Surf in Sydney is 14 km and Adelaide's City-Bay is 12 km, so those live in the general running calendar instead. Around the headliners sit hundreds of local runs put on by councils, schools, surf clubs and charities.
The 5k year in Australia
Fun runs follow the cooler months, so May to October is the busy season in the capitals and the fields are largest in June, July and August. Summer 5ks start at sunrise or after dark to dodge the heat, and the coastal towns fill the gap with twilight runs and Australia Day fun runs in January. Christmas brings Santa runs, then the calendar builds again in March and April. If you enjoy parkrun, you already know the distance and can use that experience to try a local 5k race.
Other distances
Moving on from 5k? The 10k calendar is the next rung up, the running calendar lists every distance in Australia, and the half marathon calendar, the marathon calendar and the trail running calendar take it from there. Putting on a 5k that is not here yet? Add it through the + Event button at the top of the page.
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