The 2025 Tour de France will feature a hat-trick of tough days in the Pyrenees, a return of Mont Ventoux, and a climax in the Alps, race organiser ASO announced on Tuesday.
The route for the 112th edition of the race was unveiled in a presentation inside Paris’s Palais des Congrès. It will be the first Tour to take place entirely in France for five years.
Next year’s race will begin on 5 July in Lille, and will then end in Paris, returning to the capital after a year in Nice, on the 27 July, the day after the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift has finished.
The race begins with a series of hilly stages, as well as an individual time trial on stage five, meaning that this Tour will not be one to ease into for the general classification contenders.
It then heads towards the Pyrenees via the Massif Central, with three back-to-back mountain tests in the south of France on stages 12, 13 and 14. There is then the return of Mont Ventoux, before the Tour heads to an Alpine conclusion, with 5,500m of elevation tackled on stage 18 to Courchevel, the most of next year’s race.
There are six mountain top finishes, and two time trials, including one in the Pyrenees, as well as five sprint opportunities. Tour de France 2025 stage table
Tour de France 2025 route Stage Day Start FInish Distance Type 1 5 July Lille Métropole Lille Métropole 185km Flat 2 6 July Lauwin-Planque Bolougne-sur-Mer 209km Hilly […]
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