The men’s and women’s 2025 Tour de France routes were revealed in Paris on Tuesday, with a tough course in store for the chaps, one that includes a Mont Ventoux summit finish to kick off the third week in the Alps and 44 km of time trials, 11 of which are in a mountain chrono. The 112th edition starts on Saturday, July 5 in Lille and ends in Paris on Sunday, July 27, taking place entirely in France.
🤩 Here it is, the official route of the #TDF2025!
🤩 Voici le parcours officiel du #TDF2025 ! pic.twitter.com/HvNLVJSwuI
— Tour de France™ (@LeTour) October 29, 2024
Week 1
Lille in French Flanders hosts the Grand Départ on July 5, and it should be a sprinters’ delight in Northern France. Week 1 visits Picardy, Normandy and Brittany before heading south via the Massif Central. The second stage into Boulogne-sur-Mer, the longest of the race, is the first hilly route. The first time trial arrives on Stage 5 with a fast, flat circuit around Caen. After more opportunities for sprinters and raiders, the week concludes in the Massif Central, with the first summit finish on 3.3 km, 8 percent Puy de Sancy.
Week 2
The second week is all about the Pyrenees. Not to dismiss the sprinters’ opportunities before and after, but Stages 12, 13 and 14 will be dynamite. Stage 12 ends on 13.6-km, 7.8 percent Hautacam, Stage 13 is an 11-km time trial up 7.9 percent Peyragudes and Stage 14’s summit finish is Superbagnères, with the Tourmalet, Col d’Aspin and Peyresourde climbed along the way. Yowza! The second rest day is in Montpellier.
Week 3
To keep everyone off balance, the final week begins with a summit finish on the legendary Mont Ventoux, last conquered by Julian Alaphilippe and Wout van Aert in the 2021 edition. This bald beast is 15.7 km of 8.8 percent. After a flat stage into Valence, the ascents come back in spades on Stage 18, with three very long climbs: 21.7-km Col du Glandon, 19.2-km Col de la Madeleine and the summit finish on 26.2-km, 6.5 percent Col de la Loze. La Plagne, where Stephen Roche famously fought back to Pedro Delgado in 1987, hasn’t been in the Tour since 2002. It’s back for Stage 19’s final GC battle of the 112th edition at the end of a long day in the Alps.
Etape 19 / Stage 19 – #TDF2025
🚩 Albertville – @LaPlagne 130 km⛰️ Last mountain battle with 5 climbs to finish with the interminable ascent to La…
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