The routes for the 2025 Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift can be offered in Paris on Tuesday, October 29, with race administrators Christian Prudhomme and Marion Rousse set to disclose the main points on the largest races in professional biking on the Palais des Congrès.
Cyclingnews could have reside protection of the presentation on Tuesday, adopted by full particulars of the race routes, rider reactions and evaluation.
The 2025 males’s Tour de France can be held between Saturday, July 5, beginning in Lille, in northern France, and ending in Paris on Sunday, July 27.
With no Olympic Video games in 2025, the Tour de France Femmes returns to hook up with the lads’s race, with 9 days of racing between Saturday, July 26 and Sunday, August 3.
Race organisers ASO attempt to hold the complete particulars of the race routes beneath wraps till the official presentation however particulars all the time emerge. But once more Thomas Vergouwen has stitched collectively the main points which have been leaked by way of native media experiences, resort bookings and private data, to create a stage listing and map of the anticipated route on Velowire. Biking routes editor La Flamme Rouge has collated comparable particulars on each the lads’s and girls’s race routes and printed them on social media.
On Tuesday we’ll see the complete particulars and see if the leaks and experiences are true.
That is what Cyclingnews expects for each race routes in 2025.
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Tour de France Femmes 2025 route
What we all know concerning the Tour de France Femmes route
ASO tries to maintain a good lid on the Tour de France route particulars previous to the official announcement, and an excellent tighter lid on the route particulars for the Tour de France Femmes.
However we all know that every 12 months, the Tour de France Femmes ventures into new territory, and new heights and elevates the bar with every new version since its rebirth in 2022 gained by Annemiek van Vleuten, which completed atop La Planche des belles Filles. The race went on to incorporate Col du Tourmalet in 2023 with the general title gained by Demi Vollering, after which completed on L’Alpe d’Huez with the general title earned by Kasia Niewiadoma in 2024.
Earlier than the route rumours even started to swirl, ASO had already introduced that the 2025 race would cowl 9 days. The race was given particular permission to exceed the UCI’s eight-day restrict on Ladies’s WorldTour stage races, making it the longest but of any version of the brand new model of the ladies’s Tour de France.
Brittany to host the primary three phases
The Tour de France Femmes will as soon as once more overlap with the ultimate two phases of the lads’s Tour de France, which hasn’t occurred because the 2022 version. This time, the races will coincide by two phases with the the opening stage of the Tour de France Femmes and the 2 remaining phases of the Tour de France held on July 26 and 27.
Not like the 2022 version, the 2 occasions won’t meet on the streets of Paris. ASO has additionally introduced that the fourth version of the Tour de France Femmes will start in Brittany.
The opening stage can be within the coronary heart of the Morbihan division. It can begin in Vannes and end in Plumelec, with the end on the prime of the well-known Côte de Cadoudal. by way of it’s set to complete uphill, it’s nonetheless by way of to be a day for the sprinters to take a stage win and the occasion’s first yellow jersey.
The second stage can be held within the neighbouring Finistère division. It can start in Brest and end in Quimper with a remaining loop within the city and a steep end. It’s probably a day for a breakaway or may supply a re-shuffle of the early basic classification.
Stage 3 is about to start out in La Gacilly (Morbihan) however particulars on the end should not but launched, though it’s rumoured to be one for the sprinters.
“It’s a first for an occasion that has chosen to honour a area with such deep biking roots,” ASO introduced. The organisers additionally cited athletes from the Brittany space together with Audrey Cordon-Ragot, Aude Biannic, Cédrine Kerbaol, and the continental group Arkéa-B&B Accommodations.
“The Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift helps to create vocations for little women and boys. Folks can get out and about, and are available and meet the sportswomen. I am happy with it as a result of Brittany is a area that I like, a powerful area. It has been a dream of mine to set off from the Brittany Area, to the land of champions,” stated race director Marion Rousse.
“Wherever I have been on the planet, I’ve seen Breton flags, which reveals how proud we’re to be Breton. Effectively, this time, it is France that can be coming to Brittany and assembly up as soon as once more with this magnificent area, with phases that can be spectacular from the outset, with fairly a couple of difficulties. It will be an amazing celebration, and I am already wanting ahead to 2025.”
Massif Central enroute to the Alps
The remainder of the route has not been revealed however there have been a number of rumours that it may proceed on from the Brittany space and head south-east towards the Massif Central after which attain Clermont Ferrand, in accordance with rumours printed in La Montagne, which was the beginning of the 2023 Tour de France Femmes. Additionally it is rumoured {that a} stage may finish in Ambert.
The route may then proceed travelling southeast towards the Alps, the place it the ultimate two phases may go by way of Chambéry and Maurienne, close to Grenoble. There are a large number of climbing choices as soon as they attain this division of France together with the famed Col du Galibier.
Additionally it is rumoured that the race may conclude within the space of the Châtel ski resort, which is a part of the French-Swiss ski space within the Portes du Soleil area situated within the Haute-Savoie division of southeastern France.
Châtel and the encircling space usually make an look within the Critérium du Dauphiné and the lads’s Tour de France and native climbs embody Col de Joux Airplane, Pas de Morgins, Col de Bassachaux, and Col de Corbier, in accordance with Le Dauphine
Tour de France 2025 route rumours
The 2025 Tour de France will begin in Lille-Nord de France, near Belgium and Britain, with worldwide biking followers prone to flood to the fields of northern France to see the early racing. It’s the fifth time the Tour de France has began within the Hauts-de-France area.
The sprinters could have an opportunity to win stage 1 and take the primary race chief’s yellow jersey. The 185km opening stage begins and finishes within the centre of the Métropole Lille, by way of a loop to the northwest to the cobbled Côte de Cassel climb. The stage consists of a number of different quick climbs however is predicted to finish in a dash on a wonderfully flat one-kilometre ending straight.
Stage 2 is over 209km from Lauwin-Planque south of Lille, to Boulogne-sur-Mer on the coast. This stage is hillier and extra uncovered to crosswinds from the Channel. It’s a day for the puncheurs, with the Saint-Étienne-au-Mont (900 metres at 11%) and the Côte d’Outreau (800 metres at 8.8%) coming within the remaining ten kilometres. Wout Van Aert gained the same stage to Calais in 2022 with a late solo assault.
Stage 3 can be in Lille-Nord de France, with the 172km stage from Valenciennes to Dunkerque to the coast. The stage once more covers the Côte de Cassel, with the uncovered flat roads of northern France maybe seeing some summer time winds and so attainable echelons and assaults.
The 2025 Grand Départ won’t be for the faint-hearted or those that worry tense racing and crashes.
Week one: throughout northern France and south by way of the Massif Central
The 2024 Tour de France prevented all of Northern France and Brittany however the heartlands of French biking returns in 2025, with week one leaping throughout from Lille to Brittany by way of Caen, Saint-Malo and the Mûr-de-Bretagne climb, earlier than heading south for the primary relaxation day on the foot of the Pyrenees.
With Bastille Day falling on a Monday, the French public will get to have fun an additional day of racing. Fireworks are anticipated throughout a hilly day within the Massif Central and the Puy-de-Dome space.
The Tour leaves the Lille-Nord de France space on stage 4 from Amiens and is predicted to complete in Rouen in Normandy, doubtless with one other likelihood for the sprinters, because it travels west.
The 2025 Tour is predicted to incorporate two time trials, with the primary, over 20km or so, round Caen on stage 5. The town celebrates its millennium and has been chasing a stage for a decade. Stage 6 will reportedly end in Vire Normandie, the birthplace of technical race director and route designer Thierry Gouvenou. It needs to be one other rolling state for the puncheurs, with little time to benefit from the native cider or calvados.
Stage 7 celebrates the native legend and the final French Tour de France winner Bernard Hinault, who can be 70 in November. The stage ought to end atop the Mûr-de-Bretagne climb, the place Mathieu van der Poel gained alone in 2021 with a searing assault and took the yellow jersey. Stage 8 will end in Laval to recall Louison Bobet’s three Tour victories, whereas stage 9 to Châteauroux is a day for the sprinters. Mark Cavendish gained there in 2008, 2011 and 2021
Bastille Day is on Monday, July 14 and so the Tour races on and deep into the Massif Central. The primary half of the 2025 Tour de France is filled with transfers between phases and the riders face one other early wake-up and hours of their group buses for the hilly stage within the central Puy-de-Dome division. The stage may embody the Croix Morand and Croix Saint-Robert, earlier than the end at Le Mont-Dore and even someplace above the tiny village, maybe on the ski resort.
The primary relaxation day comes after ten days of racing and one other lengthy switch south to Toulouse.
Week two: A mountain time trial excessive within the Pyrenees
The Pyrenees will dominate week two of the 2025 Tour de France, with three phases after which two others heading east to Carcassonne and Montpellier.
Some doubts concerning the phases stay however stage 12 is predicted to be a mountain end on the Luchon-Superbagnères ski station. A end at Hautacam may come the day earlier than, with essentially the most decisive Pyrenian stage prone to be a mountain time trial from Loudenvielle to the Altiport de Peyresourde runway close to Peyragudes on stage 13.
The stage may embody a valley street to elongate the stage distance to 13km, earlier than climbing to the mountain prime end. Romain Bardet gained right here in 2017 and Tadej Pogacar in 2022m, when he duelled with Jonas Vingegaard. In 2025 we are able to count on comparable Grand Tour racing however in a mountain time trial.
The Tour leaves the excessive Pyrenees on stage 14, with a stage by way of the foothills to Carcassonne. Stage 15 from the historic city takes the Tour to Montpellier for the second check day on Monday July 21.
Week three: Mont Ventoux, Col de la Loze and a return to Paris
The third week of the Tour begins with a bang on stage 16 with a Mont Ventoux mountain end.
The Géant de Provence is an iconic climb, with a number of completely different roads to Chalet Reynard after which as much as the summit.
The Tour final completed on the barren and spectacular summit in 2013 when Chris Froome gained. He additionally stole the headlines within the climb in 2016, when sturdy winds compelled ASO to maneuver the end to Chalet Reynard. The crowds packed the roadside, and blocked the motorbikes, inflicting Froome and others to crash. He then ran up the street, hoping for assist and a motorcycle change, determined to not lose time and the race lead. In 2021 Wout Van Aert gained the stage over Mont Ventoux as Pogacar and Vingegaard attacked one another within the struggle for general victory.
In 2025, the stage ought to begin in Montpelier and trip by way of Provence to the foot of the steep, sunburnt 20km climb.
Stage 17 provides an opportunity for the sprinters or breakaways on the street to close by Valence earlier than two decisive mountain phases within the Alps.
Solutions that the Tour would end on L’Alpe d’Huez have step by step been disproven with the enduring hairpins extra doubtless within the 2026 race. Stage 18 is predicted to complete in Courchevel, after the climb of the Col du Glandon and the mighty Col de la Loze, which ends with a steep bike path to the summit.
The climb was first raced within the Tour in 2020 and returned in 2023 when Pogačar famously cracked and admitted by way of radio: “I am gone, I am useless.” This could possibly be the Queen stage of the 2025 Tour.
Stage 19 needs to be from Albertville to La Plagne, with the climb returning for a mountain prime end and a 17.1km, 7.6% climb to the road. This stage may crown the general race chief, with two simpler phases to race.
Stage 20 is a rolling stage within the extra northern Bourgogne-Franche-Comté area close to the Swiss border and Lake Geneva.
Regardless of the success of the 2024 Tour end in Good, the ultimate stage of the 2025 race will return to Paris and a possible dash on the Champs-Élysées. The winner of the yellow jersey will as soon as once more be topped with the Arc du Triomphe within the background because the solar units over Paris and on the Tour de France.
2026 Grand Départ in Barcelona, Spain
The Grand Départ places for future editions of the Tour de France are sometimes revealed in Paris. ASO has already confirmed that the 2026 Tour de France will begin in Barcelona, Spain, and the placement of the 2027 Grand Depart could possibly be revealed on Tuesday.
Barcelona and the Catalonia area will host two phases in 2026, with a 3rd stage then heading into France.
ASO earns big charges for Tour de France begins outdoors of France, with current editions of the race beginning in Copenhagen, Bilbao and Florence. Rotterdam and The Hague within the Netherlands are within the working to co-host the Grand Départ of the 2027 Tour de France, particularly after the success of the primary three phases of the 2024 Tour de France Femmes. Britain has additionally had talks with ASO about internet hosting the 2027 Grand Depart.
