Before you read on
- When you race
- 11–15 November 2026
- How many nights to book
- 3 nights
- Who this race suits
- A short flight from anywhere in Britain or western Europe, and a venue you can walk to from the train.
- Nearest airport to the venue
- Dublin Airport (DUB), About 27 min by Aircoach 702, which stops at the RDS
- Cost for the weekend
- EUR 462 (USD 530) per person, Flights and race entry.
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Should you race here?
Dublin is the easiest race in this part of the world to reach, and the venue is five minutes from a train. The weather is the price.
Reasons to
- You can fly in from most of Britain or western Europe in under two hours.
- The venue is a five minute walk from two DART stations, so no taxi is needed on race morning.
- The hall is heated and indoors, which in November is worth more than it sounds.
- Three nights covers it comfortably, and the city is small enough to see on foot.
Reasons not to
- It is dark by half four and damp most days. Nothing you do outside will be warm.
- Art Source fills the main hall the same weekend, so parking and the grounds will be busier than usual.
- Dublin hotel prices are high for the size of the city, and the centre averages EUR 162 a night.
Conditions on the day
HYROX Dublin runs November 11th, 2026 to November 15th, 2026 at RDS Simmonscourt. Here is what that specific window is like on the ground.
The catch
Cold outside, warm in the hall
10°C (51°F) by day, 4°C (40°F) at night
Dublin in mid November
- The average November day reaches 10.3°C (50.5°F) and falls to 4.3°C (39.7°F) overnight.
- Humidity sits near 89% in the morning, so the cold feels wetter than the number suggests.
- Sunrise is 07:47 and sunset 16:32. An early wave starts in the dark and a late one finishes in it.
- The halls are heated. Dress for the walk from the DART, not for the floor.
- Daylight
- Dark
- Bar height is temperature
What racing here is like
Your race is here
RDS Simmonscourt
November 11th, 2026
HYROX Dublin
- Everything below describes this building first, and the other for comparison
The venue at a glance
- Address
- RDS Simmonscourt, Simmonscourt Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin D04 E6N6
- Nearest station
- Lansdowne Road DART station, on foot (about 5 min)
- Parking
- On site, EUR 10 a day, subject to availability.
- From the nearest hotel
- 8 min walk from Clayton Hotel Ballsbridge
- Altitude
- 5m above sea level, low enough to make no difference to your race.
- Bag drop
- Hyrox has not published the bag drop arrangement for Dublin.
- Supporters
- Hyrox has not published spectator ticketing for Dublin.
Dublin has moved building, moved season, and grown from a single day into the best part of a week. Where you race, and when, changes the day more than most people expect.
RDS Simmonscourt, your race is in this building
A showground in a residential suburb, five minutes on foot from two DART stations and twenty from the centre.
Known for. The Dublin Horse Show, concerts and exhibitions. The Royal Dublin Society has been on this site since the nineteenth century.
The building. The Simmonscourt complex is the RDS's exhibition half, a set of connected halls built for trade shows rather than for sport.
Race day and start times
The thing that shapes your travel is not the race date. It is when you find out what time you are racing on it.
Hyrox links individual start times on the event page about three days before the race. A provisional schedule goes up earlier.
What to bring
At the RDS, and only on the day you compete. Registration opens 90 minutes before the first wave of your division.
You do not bring a chip. You collect the ankle strap at check-in, wear it for the race, and hand it back after the line.
What your wristband does not cover
You are given a wristband at check-in. Hyrox has not published what the Dublin one admits you to, and check-in is open only on the day you race, so do not assume it covers a second day.
Getting there on the morning
Lansdowne Road and Sandymount DART stations are both about five minutes on foot. Trains run from early morning.
What you need to book
Before you book
Book flights and the last night around the provisional schedule. A wave you have not been given yet is not a thing to plan a return flight on.
If Hyrox cancels or postpones the event, its terms do not cover your flights or your room. Check the cancellation deadline on both before you pay for either.
Flying into the city
The airport is north of the city and the venue south of it, joined by one bus.
Search flights to DublinBy train
Check train times and faresSomewhere to stay
The closest beds go first, and those are the ones that matter on race morning.
Compare hotels near the venueSomething to do with the rest of the weekend
Most people fly in for one race and see nothing. The day before is dead time if you do not plan it.
Tours and tickets in DublinSomewhere to put your bag
Flying out the same evening? This is the difference between a good afternoon and hauling a kit bag around a city.
Left luggage in DublinYour entry
Sold by Hyrox, one ticket per division per day. We earn nothing from this link and include it because you need it.
Official Hyrox entriesEstimate weekend cost
| Item | Local currency | USD |
|---|---|---|
| Three nights Nights near the venue | EUR 342 | $393 |
| Travel, airport and around the city | EUR 30 | $34 |
| Eating, three days | EUR 90 | $103 |
| One athlete plus one supporter | EUR 462 | $530 |
Getting to Dublin
The Aircoach 702 runs from Dublin Airport to the RDS gate in about 27 minutes.
One bus from the airport to the door
Dublin Airport is on the opposite side of the city from the RDS, and one bus connects them in about 27 minutes. It stops at the venue itself, which no other service does.
The DART, five minutes away
Lansdowne Road and Sandymount are both about five minutes from the Simmonscourt gate. A single on a Leap card is EUR 2.00 and a visitor day ticket is EUR 8.00.
Entry requirements
Quick tip
If you land late, the DART stops running before midnight. A taxi from the airport is EUR 30 to 40.
Getting to the venue
Ballsbridge is the quiet choice and you can walk to the hall. The centre is twenty minutes away and has the evening. Both are reasonable; they are answering different questions.
The Aircoach 702 stops at the RDS itself, so the airport to the venue is one bus and no changes. On every other day the DART is quicker: Lansdowne Road and Sandymount are both about five minutes on foot.
Where to stay
Ballsbridge puts you within a walk of the hall. The centre puts you within a walk of everything else. Twenty minutes of DART separates them.
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1. Clayton Hotel Ballsbridge
A converted Victorian building on the main road, the closest full-size hotel to the Simmonscourt gate.
2. Sandymount Hotel
Family run and beside Lansdowne Road station, so the DART is at the door if the walk is too much on the day.
3. InterContinental Dublin
The expensive option, on the same road as the venue. Worth it only if somebody else is paying.
A hotel 0.2 miles from the RDS listed EUR 114 a night. Art Source is in the main hall the same weekend, so Ballsbridge will book out earlier than the price suggests.
Neighbourhoods worth the commute
Ballsbridge is quiet and close. Everywhere else is twenty minutes away and has somewhere to eat after eight.
| Area | To the venue | Why | Suits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ballsbridge | 5 to 10 min on foot | Leafy, residential and full of embassies. You can walk to the start and back to bed. | |
| Grafton Street and St Stephen’s Green | about 20 min by DART | The middle of the city, with the shops and the green. Busy, and the easiest place to find dinner. | |
| Merrion Square | about 15 min by DART | Georgian terraces and the national museums. Quieter than Grafton Street and the same distance out. | |
| Grand Canal Dock | about 15 min by DART | Modern, built for offices, and well supplied with hotel rooms. Short on character and long on availability. | |
| Temple Bar | about 25 min by bus | Loud until late and priced for tourists. Fine for the night after, wrong for the night before. |
Eating before and after
The night before a race is not the night for the best meal of your trip, which is harder discipline than it sounds in a city this good at food.
Ballsbridge, within the walk
The main road through Ballsbridge has the usual run of cafes and pub kitchens, which is all you want the night before. Plain, early and five minutes from your bed.
Donnybrook, one stop further
A village high street fifteen minutes up the road, with more choice and fewer people who have come in for the fair. Still close enough to walk back.
Dublin eats late and generously, and none of it is designed for a race the next morning.
Boxty at Gallagher’s
Boxty is a potato pancake folded round a filling, and this is the place most associated with it. In Temple Bar, so expect the room to be loud and the bill to carry the postcode.
A proper Irish breakfast
Rashers, sausage, black and white pudding, egg and soda bread. Most cafes serve it until noon, and it will carry you to mid afternoon without a second thought.
Race day supplies
The practical failures that spoil a race weekend are almost never the training. They are forgetting the gels, or carrying a kit bag around a city for six hours.
Pack list
- A warm layer for the walk in. The hall is heated, the ten minutes from the DART is not.
- Something waterproof. November in Dublin averages about 82mm of rain across the month.
- A head torch is unnecessary, but a phone with charge is not: it gets dark at half four.
Quick tips
- Gels and electrolyte are easier to bring than to find. The nearest specialist shop is in the city centre.
- The RDS car park is EUR 10 a day and shared with an art fair that weekend. Arriving by DART removes the question.
Ballsbridge has a supermarket and a pharmacy on the main road. Anything more specialised means going into town.
The last race in Dublin
The same building, the same week of the year, one year earlier.
What happened
The last edition, in short.
- Dublin raced at the RDS over 12 to 16 November 2025 and returns to the same halls this year.
- The 2025 race ran from the Wednesday to the Sunday, the same shape as this year.
What it means for you
How your race differs from that one.
- The venue has not moved, so a report from last year still describes the building you will race in.
- November in Dublin is dark by half four, and the hall is the warmest place you will be all day.
What else is on that weekend
One of these is in the same building as your race.
| What | When | Where | What it means |
|---|---|---|---|
| Art Source, Ireland’s largest art fair | 13 to 15 November | RDS Hall 1, the main hall | Same site, same days. Expect the car park to fill and the grounds to be busy with people who are not racing. |
| Niall Horan | 12 and 13 November | 3Arena | Two nights at a 13,000-seat arena. City centre hotels will be tighter on those dates. |
| Wild Lights at Dublin Zoo | From 12 November | Phoenix Park | Evening event across the city, no effect on Ballsbridge. |
| The Jacksons with Sister Sledge | 15 November | 3Arena | Sunday night, after most waves have finished. |
What to see
Written for someone racing tomorrow, not a tourist with a week. Each entry says how far it is, because some of these are worth a longer trip and some are not.
National Museum of Ireland, Archaeology
The bog bodies are here, and the Treasury, and a room of gold worked three thousand years ago. It is free, it is indoors, and it is twenty minutes from the hall.
Kilmainham Gaol
The prison where the leaders of the 1916 Rising were held and shot. You go round with a guide, which is the only way in, and it is the clearest hour you will spend on Irish history.
The Guinness Storehouse
Seven floors inside the old fermentation plant, ending in a glass bar with the city laid out below. It is the most visited thing in Ireland, which tells you both why to go and what it will be like.
Trinity College and the Long Room
The Book of Kells draws the queue, but the Long Room above it is the thing worth standing in. Dark oak, two storeys of books, and the smell of a library that has been there since 1712.
What to do
The Howth cliff path
A loop round the headland north of the city, with the sea on one side the whole way. It starts at the station, so you can be walking twenty minutes after leaving the DART platform.
The Forty Foot
A rocky point at Sandycove where people have swum all year round for two hundred years. In November the water is about 10°C (50°F) and the locals treat that as unremarkable.
Phoenix Park by bike
Twice the size of any park in London, with a herd of fallow deer living in it. Hire a bike at the gate and you can cross it properly rather than walking a corner of it.
Glendalough
A monastic settlement in a glacial valley an hour south, with two lakes and a round tower still standing. It is the easiest way to see that Ireland is not only Dublin.
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Last updated November 7th, 2026.