The route for the 2025 Tour de France was revealed this morning at the Palais de Congrès in Paris. Next year’s race will start in Lille on Saturday 5th July and conclude with the familiar finale on the Champs-Élysées on Sunday 27th July. Tadej Pogačar is expected to defend his title. Likewise, 2024 podium finishers Jonas Vingegaard and Remco Evenepoel will likely return.
After three consecutive Grand Départs abroad, the men’s Tour de France will start on home soil in northern France. For the first time since 2020, the sprinters will have a chance to wear the maillot jaune after a flat Stage 1 around the Flemish city of Lille.
From there, the race will move westwards, running parallel to the Channel. The first week is built around the sprinters and puncheurs, but will offer a time-trial and one mountain stage for the GC contenders. Once into the Pyrenees, the Tour will tackle a trinity of summit finishes at Hautacam, Superbagnères and Peyregudes. The latter will be a mountain time-trial on Stage 13. To round out the climbing, the final week will head into the Alps via Mont Ventoux. The final stages offer up summit finishes at the high-altitude Col de la Loze and La Plagne before a rolling stage to Pontarlier on Stage 20.
All in all, there are seven flat stages, six hilly stages, six mountaintop finishes – of which five will be summit finishes – and two time-trials (44km in total). The elevation gain sits at 51,550m in total – a reduction of 1,000m from last year – and the total length of the course will be around 3,320km.
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Tour de France 2024: Key information
- Dates: Saturday 5th July to Sunday 27th July 2024
- Grand Départ: Lille, France
- Finale: Paris (Champs Elysées), France
- Total elevation gain: 51,550m
- Total prize money: €2.3million
- UK television coverage: ITV4, Eurosport, Discovery+, TG4, S4C
- 2024 winner: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates)
- Most overall wins: 5 – Jacques Anquetil, Bernard Hinault, Miguel Indurain, Eddy Merckx
- Most stage wins: 35 – Mark Cavendish
Tour de France 2025 route
A 100% French Tour, the 2025 race will move anti-clockwise around the French Republic. The opening week is characterised by flat and punchy stages, plus an individual time-trial around Caen. A Bastille Day stage in the Massif Central will close the first week after a prolonged ten days of racing in this first block.
The summit finishes will be plentiful in 2025. The Pyrenees will see three consecutive summit finishes – including a time-trial up Peyregudes – before a short transition along the Mediterranean towards the Alps. Mont Ventoux arrives on Stage 16 before two more Alpine stages decide the final GC hierarchy. A final punchy stage through the Doubs will round out the ‘competitive’ fight before the traditional procession onto the Champs Elysées in Paris. Yes, the most beautiful boulevard in France makes its comeback after a year’s hiatus forced by the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Tour de France 2024 stage-by-stage preview
The race organisers are yet to publish the full profiles of all the stages. This is the information we know so far.
Stage 1: Saturday 5th July, Lille Métropole – Lille Métropole, 185km
We begin the Tour with a flat stage. This loop around Le Nord will offer the sprinters a chance to pull on the yellow. However, the first day nerves will certainly dish up some unexpected twists and turns.
Stage 2: Sunday 6th July, Lauwin-Planque – Boulogne-sur-Mer, 209km
The longest stage of the 2025 parcours, this day is crafted for the puncheurs with a finale similar to a 2012 stage won by Peter Sagan. Expect chaos.
Stage 3: Monday 7th July, Valenciennes – Dunkerque , 172km
Another day for the sprinters, but wind along the Channel and a late cobbled climb to Cassel could shake up proceedings.
Stage 4: Tuesday 8th July, Amiens Métropole – Rouen, 173km
We leave Le Nord and head across to the wind-swept fields into Picardie. The finale around Rouen will be a punchy run into the line. Notably, the penultimate Saint-Hillaire climb hits 15%. We could see a change of race leadership at the end of the day.
Stage 5: Wednesday 9th July, Caen – Caen, 33km (ITT)
We're deep into cider country here. There's no chance to sip on some Calvados, however, the stage will be a 33km flat individual time-trial.
Stage 6: Thursday 10th July, Bayeaux – Vire, 201km
There'll be six categorised climbs on Stage 6, plus a steep 10% kicker in the final kilometre. It'll be one for the most sprightly of puncheurs.
Stage 7: Friday 11th July, Saint-Malo – Mûr-de-Bretagne, 194km
The seventh stage will be an homage to Breton stars young and old, but mostly Bernard Hinault. The Mûr-de-Bretagne makes its return for two appearances in the finale. The last time we visited the wall, Mathieu van der Poel took his first Tour stage and went into the maillot jaune.
Stage 8: Saturday 12th July, Saint-Méen Le-Grand– Laval, 174km
2025 marks the centenary since Louison Bobet's birth, the first rider to win the Tour on three consecutive occasions, and on Stage 8, we start in his hometown. The arrival town of Laval hosted a time-trial back in 2021, so we know that there'll be a slight false flat to the line in Laval's Espace Mayenne.
Stage 9: Sunday 13th July, Chinon – Châteauroux, 170km
Mark Cavendish should have honorary keys to the city of Châteauroux. He has won three stages in the fortified city, including his first. Expect another sprinters finale here.
Stage 10: Monday 14th July, Ennezat – Le Mont-Dore, 163km
It's all about the Massif Central on Stage 10. 4,400m of elevation gain is on the menu for this undulating day of racing, the first in the high-ish mountains. It'll be a tough closer to our first week of racing. Don't forget, this stage will take place on France's national holiday, Bastille Day.
Stage 11: Wednesday 16th July, Toulouse – Toulouse, 154km
La Ville Rose will host the first rest day as well as the start and finish of Stage 11. The sprinters will have a chance to shine here once more. That said, there's a steep hill around 8km from the finish line. Look out for that.
Stage 12: Thursday 17th July, Auch – Hautacam, 181km
The Pyrenees arrive on Stage 12 with the Tour's first proper summit finish to Hautacam. This climb is hallowed in Danish cycling as Bjaarne Riis and Jonas Vingegaard have taken big wins here.
Stage 13: Friday 18th July, Loudenvielle – Peyregudes, 11km (ITT)
An 11km mountain time-trial will spice up the second week of racing. The final time-trial (yes, that's it after this) will offer a short parcours up the Peyregudes climb, with a finish scheduled up the '007' altiport runway.
Stage 14: Saturday 19th July, Pau – Superbagnères, 183km
One last day in the Pyrenees, and they've kept the best for last. The Col du Tourmalet, Col d'Aspin and the Col du Peyresourde will clock up 4,950m of elevation on the profile. The finale will be up an unfamiliar climb to recent Tour fans, Superbagnères. It has been 36 years since the last finish up this peak. On that occasion, it was a crucial day in the tightly-fought 1989 Tour de France between LeMond and Fignon.
Stage 15: Sunday 20th July, Muret – Carcassonne, 169km
Another finish in Carcassonne? Haven't we been here enough? Anyways, this stage will be a hilly one perfect for the breakaway.
Stage 16: Tuesday 22nd July, Montpellier – Mont Ventoux, 172km
After a rest day in Montpellier, the final week of racing opens in brutal fashion with a return to the Giant of Provence, Mont Ventoux. Yes, the bald mountain makes its return after a four-year break from the Tour, the last time being one of the best Grand Tour stages of the last five years.
Ventoux will be the only major climb of the day, but it is sure to deliver another finale to remember.
Stage 17: Wednesday 23rd July, Bollène – Valence, 161km
A short stage that could host another sprint finish in the Roman city of Valence.
Stage 18: Thursday 24th July, Vif – Col de la Loze, 171km
Vif, a suburb of Grenoble, will see the riders off for Stage 18. The challenging profile tackles Col du Glandon, Col de la Madeleine and then the Col de la Loze. This climb is becoming a new staple of the Tour parcours, however this isn't the same ascent as its previous appearances, which went up via Méribel.
For the masochists, this will be the stage with the most elevation gain at the 2025 Tour with a whopping 5,500m.
Stage 19: Friday 25th July, Albertville – La Plagne, 130km
The second and final Alpine day will start in Albertville. The Col du Pré and Cormet de Roseland will accent this stage before the final summit finish of the 2025 Tour up to La Plagne, which returns after 23 years.
For the amateurs, this route will be the 2025 Étape du Tour, the world's biggest sportive.
Stage 20: Saturday 26th July, Nantua – Pontarlier, 185km
The penultimate stage is slightly underwhelming. It's punchy, but nothing too difficult for our big contenders. It's unlikely the Tour will be won or lost on this stage.
Stage 21: Sunday 27th July, Mantes-la-Ville – Paris (Champs-Élysées), 120km
We're back in Paris and this will mark the 50-year anniversary since the first arrival on the Champs-Élysées.
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