Tour de France 2025 Route: The full route of the 2025 Tour de France was presented in Paris on Tuesday morning. We already knew that the start will be in Lille in Northern France, but now the route, mountains and stage towns are public knowledge. In the three week Grand Tour, the riders will face stages to Mont Ventoux and the Col de la Loze. There are also two time trials, the second a mountain test. Here is the ‘PEZ Tour’25 First Look’.
Parcours Tour de France 2025
The 2025 Tour de France Main Facts & Figures:
- The Tour’25 starts in France for the first time since 2021
- All 21 stages are in France
- 3320 kilometres
- 7 flat stages
- 6 hilly stages
- 6 mountain stages
- 2 time trials
- 5 summit finishes
The 2025 Tour de France map
The Route:
The start of the 2025 Tour is in France after the Grand Départs in Copenhagen, Bilbao and Florence. This year the Hauts-de-France region is hosting the Tour start on Saturday the 5th of July with Stage 1 around Lille. The sprinters will have their big chance to take the yellow jersey as the stage avoids the cobbles of Paris-Roubaix.
Stage 1 3D
Stage 2 from Lauwin-Planque to Boulogne-sur-Mer has opportunities for the puncheurs as there are many short, steep climbs. The final 30 kilometres are hard with the climbs of the Côte du Haut Pichot (1km at 10%), Côte de Saint-Étienne-au-Mont (900 metres at 11%) and 5 kilometres from the finish, the Côte d’Outreau (800 metres at 8.8%). The last 1.3 kilometres in Boulogne-sur-Mer al.
Stage 2 finale
On the third day, the fast-finishers will have their chance again. The peloton heads from Valenciennes to Dunkirk with only the Kasselberg, with 30 kilometres to go, to split the race. There should be a sprint finish in Dunkirk, just like the Four Days of Dunkirk in the spring.
Expect a bunch sprint in Dunkerque
Stage 4 goes from Amiens to Rouen and has a tough finale where the climbers can show their form with three steep climbs in the last 20 kilometres and an uphill finish.
The last tough 20K of stage 4
Stage 5 on Wednesday will let the GC men shake up the classification in the first time trial of the 2025 Tour de France. The race against the clock starts and finishes in Caen, over 33 kilometres. Stages 6 and 7 are still on the French west coast with hilly stages to Viré on Thursday and Mûr-de-Bretagne on Friday. The stage 7 finish has been used in the Tour four times before. The last time, in 2021, the victory went to Mathieu van der Poel.
Mathieu van der Poel won on the Mûr-de-Bretagne back in 2021
The weekend brings two more flat stages for the sprinters. The finish is in Laval on Stage 8 and in Châteauroux on Stage 9. Normally the riders would have their first rest day on Monday, but because it is July 14, the French national holiday, the Tour will have Stage 10 in the Massif Central. The finish at Mont Dore-Puy Sancy (3.3km at 8%) is short, but could split the overall riders. Before the finish the stage goes up and down all day, with no flat roads.
Stage 10 is a hard day
After ten days, the Tour de France takes its first rest day. The next day’s Stage 11 starts and finishes in Toulouse and although there is a hard climb 8 kilometres from the finish, it should be a day that the GC men can have an extra rest. The second week has three consecutive stages through the Pyrenees. Thursday’s Stage 12 goes from Auch to Hautacam with a murderous final (15.9km at 7.6%). Stage 13 on Friday is an 11 kilometre mountain time trial to Peyragudes and might cause a surprise. In 2022 there were finishes at Hautacam and Peyragudes. On Peyragudes, the victory went to Tadej Pogačar, but a day later it was Jonas Vingegaard.
Stage 13 mountain TT
Saturday’s Stage 14 goes from Pau to Luchon-Superbagnères. Superbagnères (12.4km at 7.5%) returns to the Tour after a long absence. The climb has been in the Tour six times, the last time Robert Millar won in 1989. The climbs leading to Superbagnères are regularly on the Tour route: the Col du Tourmalet (19km at 7.6%), the Col d’Aspin (5km at 7.6%) and the Col de Peyresourde (7.1km at 7.8%).
Stage 14 profile
Robert Millar winning on Superbagnères in 1989
Following the three stages in the Pyrenees, there is another day for the sprinters on Sunday. Stage 15 starts in Muret and the finish is in Carcassonne after 169 kilometres. The second rest day in Montpellier is followed by a big mountain stage. From Montpellier, Stage 16 goes via Bedoin to the top of Mont Ventoux (21.4km at 7.5%). The ‘Giant of Provence’ was last climbed in the 2021 Tour, that year the finish was not on the summit, but after a descent in Malaucène and Wout van Aert took the victory.
Mont Ventoux
Stage 17 from Bollène to Valence is another day for a possible bunch sprint, but there will tired legs and the GC men will be resting before the next days in the Alps, a break could go all the way. The first day in the Alps, Stage 18, finishes on the Col de la Loze (26.2km at 6.5%). The finish will be at the summit and not after a short descent, as in 2023. Before the Col de la Loze, there are two other climbs, the Col du Glandon (21.8km at 6.9%) and the Col de la Madeleine (19km at 8%).
Stage 18 profile
The second day in the Alps, Stage 19, goes to La Plagne. The last time the French Grand Tour visited was in 2002, when Michael Boogerd won after a long solo. Before the final climb, the riders have to face the Côte d’ Héry-sur-Ugine (11.3km at 5.1%), the Col des Saisies (13.7km at 6.4%), Col du Pré (12km at 8%) and the Cormet de Roseland (5.9km at 6.5%). The penultimate day of the Tour, Stage 20, is a hilly transition stage from Nantua to Pontarlier.
Stage 19 could be very decisive
The 2025 Tour de France comes to its climax with the traditional Stage 21 to the centre of Paris, which is back after missing out last year. In 2024 the Tour had to finish in Nice due to the Olympic Games being held in the French capital city. After the laps of the Champs Élysées we will know the final winner of the 2025 Tour de France, but we will probably know some days before.
50 years of the Champs Elysées
Tour de France 2025 Stages (5/7 to 27/7):
Stage 1: Lille to Lille – Flat – 185km
Stage 2: Lauwin-Planque to Boulogne-sur-Mer – Hilly – 212km
Stage 3: Valenciennes to Dunkerque – Flat – 178km
Stage 4: Amiens to Rouen – Hilly – 173km
Stage 5: Caen to Caen – ITT – 33km
Stage 6: Bayeux to Vire-Normandie – Hilly – 201km
Stage 7: Saint-Malo to Mûr-de-Bretagne – Hilly – 194km
Stage 8: Saint-Méen-le-Grand to Laval – Flat – 174km
Stage 9: Chinon to Châteauroux – Flat – 170km
Stage 10: Ennezat to Le Mont-Dore Puy de Sancy – Mountain – 163km
15/7: Rest Day Toulouse
Stage 11: Toulouse to Toulouse – Flat – 154km
Stage 12: Auch to Hautacam – Mountain – 181km
Stage 13: Loudenvielle-Le Louron to Peyragudes – Mountain ITT – 11km
Stage 14: Pau to Luchon-Superbagnères – Mountain – 183km
Stage 15: Muret to Carcassonne – Hilly – 169km
21/7: Rest Day Montpellier
Stage 16: Montpellier to Mont Ventoux – Mountain – 172km
Stage 17: Bollene to Valence – Flat – 161km
Stage 18: Vif to Col de la Loze (Méribel) – Mountain – 171km
Stage 19: Albertville to La Plagne – Mountain 130km
Stage 20: Nantua to Pontarlier – Hilly – 185km
Stage 21: Mantes-la-Ville to Paris – Flat – 120km.
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