Before you read on
- When you race
- 28–31 January 2027
- How many nights to book
- 3 nights
- Who this race suits
- Racing inside a Roman city in its quietest month, for less than Milan costs.
- Nearest airport to the venue
- Verona Villafranca (VRN), About 10 min by taxi, or 43 min by Airlink and a city bus
- Cost for the weekend
- EUR 430 (USD 480) per person, Flights and race entry.
On this page
Should you race here?
A race on the edge of a Roman city, in the one month it belongs to the people who live there.
Reasons to
- The fairground is just outside the walls and the arena is an eight-minute shuttle away.
- January is the low season, so rooms are about EUR 95 and the old town is empty.
- An ordinary meal is about EUR 16, which undercuts Milan by a quarter.
- Lake Garda is thirty minutes away and Venice seventy by train.
Reasons not to
- It freezes overnight, which is not what most people book an Italian race for.
- Villafranca has few international flights, so most arrivals route through Milan or Venice.
- January in the Po valley means fog, and the air sits still in it.
Conditions on the day
HYROX Verona runs January 28th, 2027 to January 31st, 2027 at Fiera di Verona. Here is what that specific window is like on the ground.
The catch
Below freezing at dawn, foggy by habit
7°C (45°F) by day, -1°C (31°F) at night
Verona in late January
- The January average reaches 7°C (45°F) by day and falls to -0.7°C (31°F) at night.
- That overnight figure is below freezing, which is unusual for an Italian race and catches people out.
- Only 40mm of rain falls across five days, but fog fills the valley on many of the others.
- Daylight runs 07:39 to 17:19, nine hours and forty minutes in total.
- Daylight
- Dark
- Bar height is temperature
What racing here is like
Your race is here
Fiera di Verona
January 28th, 2027
HYROX Verona
- Everything below describes this building first, and the other for comparison
The venue at a glance
- Address
- Viale del Lavoro 8, Verona
- Parking
- The P3 car park at the fairground is EUR 10 a day.
- From the nearest hotel
- about 20 min on foot from Hotels around Porta Nuova
- Altitude
- 59m above sea level, low enough to make no difference to your race.
- Bag drop
- Hyrox has not published the bag drop arrangement for Verona.
- Supporters
- Hyrox has not published spectator ticketing for Verona.
Verona 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.
Fiera di Verona, your race is in this building
A twelve-hall fairground just south of the old city, twenty minutes' walk from Porta Nuova station and ten from the Roman arena by bus.
Known for. Vinitaly, the largest wine fair in the world, and Marmomac, which brings the global stone trade to one site.
The building. Verona has held a fair since the Middle Ages, and the present ground was laid out south of the walls in the 1920s.
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 fairground, 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 Verona one admits you to. Check-in is open only on the day you race, so do not assume it covers a second day.
Getting there on the morning
The shuttle from Piazza Bra, about eight minutes, or twenty on foot from Porta Nuova. It will be below freezing.
What you need to book
Before you book
Book flights and the last night around the provisional schedule, not around a wave you have not been given.
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
Venice Marco Polo, Bergamo and Milan Malpensa all connect to Verona by train or coach within two hours.
Search flights to VeronaBy 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 VeronaSomewhere 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 VeronaYour 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 285 | $318 |
| Travel, airport and around the city | EUR 35 | $39 |
| Eating, three days | EUR 110 | $123 |
| One athlete plus one supporter | EUR 430 | $480 |
Getting to Verona
Villafranca is ten minutes from the fairground by taxi, for EUR 20 to 25.
Taxi from Villafranca
Ten minutes and twenty to twenty-five euros. The airport is unusually close to the fairground, even if it has few flights.
Train to Porta Nuova
Verona is on the Milan to Venice main line, so trains run from both within ninety minutes, and the station is a twenty-minute walk from the hall.
Entry requirements
Quick tip
Villafranca takes few international flights. Venice, Milan Bergamo and Milan Malpensa are all within two hours by train or coach.
Getting to the venue
The old city is the place to stay and it is a short bus ride from the fairground. Porta Nuova is nearer but has nothing around it.
Verona is small and the fairground is just outside the old walls, so a shuttle from Piazza Bra takes about eight minutes and Porta Nuova station is twenty on foot. An ATV day ticket is five euros and covers the whole urban network.
Where to stay
Verona is small enough to walk across in half an hour and the fairground is just outside the walls. Stay in the old city and take the shuttle.
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1. Hotels around Porta Nuova
Practical, modern and nearest the fairground. Nothing around them, and the old city is a ten-minute walk north.
2. Hotels in the Città Antica
The arena, the squares and the marble streets. Where everyone should stay, at about EUR 95 a night in January.
3. Hotels in Veronetta and Borgo Trento
The university quarter on one bank and a quiet residential one on the other. Both are cheaper, and ten minutes from the centre.
January is the quietest month of the Verona year, with the opera festival six months away. Rooms are at their cheapest and the city is at its emptiest.
Neighbourhoods worth the commute
Verona is a small city inside a bend of the Adige, so everything below is twenty minutes or less from the fairground.
| Area | To the venue | Why | Suits |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Città Antica | about 8 min by shuttle | The Roman and medieval core: the arena, Piazza delle Erbe and marble streets you can walk end to end. | |
| Porta Nuova | about 20 min on foot | The station district, nearest the fairground, practical and without much else. Useful if you arrive by train. | |
| Veronetta | about 15 min by bus | The university quarter across the river, with cheap bars and the youngest crowd in the city. | |
| Borgo Trento | about 15 min by bus | Quiet nineteenth-century streets north of the river, within walking distance of the old town. | |
| San Zeno | about 12 min by bus | A low-key quarter west of the centre around a Romanesque basilica with bronze doors from 1100. |
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.
The old city, around Piazza Bra
Trattorias serving from seven within a few minutes of the shuttle stop, most doing a plain plate of pasta for about sixteen euros.
Around Porta Nuova
Ordinary restaurants near the station, nearest the fairground of anything in the city. They are convenient, and nobody would travel for them.
Veronese food is horse, risotto and Amarone, and the first of those is not a joke.
Risotto all'Amarone
Rice cooked in the local red wine until it turns purple, served across the old town for about fifteen to twenty-two euros depending on where you sit.
Pastissada de caval
Horse stewed in wine for a day, which Verona has eaten since a battle in the fifth century left a field of them. About seventeen fifty at Sottoriva 23.
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
- Proper winter clothing. The overnight average is -0.7°C (31°F), which surprises people expecting Italy.
- Something for fog rather than rain. Only 40mm falls across five January days, but the valley fogs in.
- Shoes for marble. The old town is paved in it and it is slick when damp.
Quick tips
- Buy an ATV day ticket at five euros rather than singles at one fifty.
- Book Venice or Garda trains the day before. Regional fares do not change with demand.
The station district has supermarkets and a pharmacy. The old city is small shops and will not have what you forgot at seven in the morning.
The last race in Verona
Fiera di Verona is a recent addition to the Hyrox calendar, so there is little previous form here to pass on.
What happened
The last edition, in short.
- The fairground has twelve halls and several gates, so check the hall number before you walk.
- Porta Nuova station is twenty minutes on foot, and a shuttle runs from Piazza Bra in about eight.
What it means for you
How your race differs from that one.
- The overnight average is -0.7°C (31°F), below freezing and unusual for an Italian race.
- Villafranca airport is ten minutes away by taxi but has few international routes.
What else is on that weekend
A quiet winter weekend in a city that fills up in summer.
| What | When | Where | What it means |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mahler's Song of the Earth | 29 January | Teatro Filarmonico, beside Piazza Bra | The Friday evening, a few minutes from the shuttle stop. A good first night if you arrive early. |
| Afterhours | 29 January | Gran Teatro Morato | An Italian rock institution, the same Friday, on the south side of the city near the fairground. |
| The Mozart a Verona festival | 17 to 24 January | Teatro Filarmonico | Finishes the week before racing starts. Worth knowing if you are extending the trip backwards. |
| The low season | All January | The whole city | Verona in summer is an opera festival with a town around it. In January it is just the town, and far better for it. |
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.
The Arena
A Roman amphitheatre from around AD 30, still in use, sitting in the main square as if it were ordinary. Older than the Colosseum and better preserved inside.
Castelvecchio
A fourteenth-century castle on the river, restored by Carlo Scarpa in the 1960s in a way that architects still travel to study. The restoration is the exhibit.
Piazza delle Erbe and the Torre dei Lamberti
The old Roman forum, now a market square ringed with frescoed houses, with an 84-metre tower you can go up for the view across the rooftops.
San Zeno Maggiore
A Romanesque basilica west of the centre with forty-eight bronze panels on its doors from the twelfth century, and Mantegna's altarpiece inside.
What to do
Walk the walls and the river
Verona still has most of its Scaligeri and Venetian walls, and a flat path along the Adige underneath them. Free, and the best hour of the trip.
A day on Lake Garda
Thirty minutes by train or bus to Peschiera, and the southern end of the lake. January is cold and empty, which is the version worth seeing.
Valpolicella
The hills north of the city make Amarone, the wine the local risotto is cooked in. Half a day and a short drive, and the cellars are open in winter.
Venice, for the day
An hour and ten minutes by fast train from Porta Nuova. January is the one month Venice is tolerable, and you are already on the line.
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- What caught you out
- What the hall was like inside
- Where your supporters watched from
- Anything good you did in the city
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Last updated November 7th, 2026.