While you've already been able to discover the route of the Tour de France 2025 being built up on the basis of rumours (we could have added "and 95% good" to the title, as only one stage won't actually take place as the most recent rumours predicted), it was, along with that of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift 2025, officially announced at the Palais des Congrès in Paris today.

Here you'll find confirmation of the 21 different stages that make up the Tour de France 2025, as well as the first small details that have been revealed. It will be a 100% French Tour de France, in that not a millimetre of the different stages will take place outside French territory, but it will also be a 48% transfer Tour de France, since there's almost as much distance between the arrivals and departures of the different stages as there are kilometers cycled during them!

The Tour de France 2025 in figures

Here's the Tour de France 2025 in statistics, some figures that illustrate the route of this 112thedition!

• 100%: the Tour de France 2025 will take place 100% on French territory (and is 100% hexagonal, a first since 2020). The Tour will visit 11 regions, covering 34 French departments
• 21: that's the number of stages in the Tour de France 2025, divided into 7 flat stages, 6 hilly stages and 6 mountain stages, 5 of which finish at altitude (Hautacam, Luchon-Superbagnères, Mont Ventoux, Courchevel col de la Loze and La Plagne) and 2 time-trial stages, one of which is uphill
  • stage 5 Caen > Caen - 33 km on the flat
  • stage 13 Loudenvielle > Peyragudes - 11 km uphill
  ... and there will of course be 2 rest days
  
  the longest stage will be the 2nd, Lauwin-Planque > Boulogne-sur-Mer, with 212 km and the shortest road stage will be the 21st and last, Mantes-la-Ville > Paris Champs-Elysées, with 120 km The total distance (before homologation) is 3,320 km
• 3.055 km : this is the total cumulative distance between each of the finish towns and sites and the following start towns and sites, corresponding to no less than 48% of the total distance (stages + travel); methodology : distance provided by Google Maps as the first answer for an itinerary by car, rounded to the nearest kilometer; note that this is a record (potentially absolute, but at least for recent editions) for distance in transfers; considering each trip over 50 km as a transfer, of the 20 trips, 18 would be transfers (even taking a threshold of 100 km, there would still be 14!)
• 4 massifs will be on the program for the Tour de France 2025: the Massif Central, the Pyrenees, the Alps and the Jura
  • the roof of the Tour de France will be the Col de la Loze at an altitude of 2,304 metres, and this will be the first time it has been climbed from its eastern side, on the Courchevel side
  • 51,550 metres: this is the altitude the riders of the Tour de France 2025 will have climbed by the time they reach Paris on Sunday, July 27, 2025
  • 39 years : this is the period between the last Pau > Luchon-Superbagnères stage and that of the Tour de France 2025, and the stage will be strictly identical to that of 1986
• The 39 sites and stage towns of this Tour de France 2025 include 8 new sites or stage towns
  • Lauwin-Planque, start of stage 2
  • Bayeux, start of stage 6
  • Chinon, start of stage 9
  • Ennezat, start of stage 10
  • Le Mont-Dore Puy de Sancy, finish of stage 10
  • Bollène, start of stage 17
  • Vif, start of stage 18
  • Mantes-la-Ville, start of the 21st and final stage

As usual, time bonuses will be awarded at the finish of each stage (10, 6 and 4 seconds to the top three finishers). This year, there will be no "bonus points" on the course, as according to Christian Prudhomme the route does not lend itself to them (they will therefore return in future editions of the Tour de France).

Tour de France 2025 route in detail

The Grand Départ "Lille - Nord de France"

Although the first stage starts in Lille, it is the Metropole Européenne de Lille, the Nord department and the Hauts-de-France region that have joined forces to organize and finance the Grand Départ of this Tour de France 2025. The Grand Départ is organized as follows:

• Wednesday, July 2, 2025: opening of the accreditation office and press center, at the Hôtel de Région Hauts-de-France, in Lille
• Thursday, July 3, 2025: presentation of the Tour de France 2025 teams on the Grand'Place in Lille
• Saturday, July 4, 2025: Stage 1 - Lille Métropole > Lille Métropole
• sunday, july 5, 2025: stage 2 - Lauwin-Planque > Boulogne-sur-Mer
• Monday, July 6, 2025: 3rd stage - Valenciennes > Dunkirk
• Tuesday, July 7, 2025: Start of 4th stage from Amiens Métropole to Rouen

1/ Saturday, July 5, 2025 - Lille Métropole > Lille Métropole - 185 km

Lille Métropole will host both the start and finish of this first stage of the 2025 Tour de France. The finish at the foot of the Citadelle in Lille Métropole (where the start will also take place), after a mainly flat 185 km route through the Pas-de-Calais region, is likely to be a sprint, making it the first time since the Grand Départ in Nice in 2020 that a sprinter will wear the first Yellow Jersey of the Tour de France. However, the polka-dot jersey will also be contested on this first stage, with the climbs of Mont Cassel and Mont Noir. In more detail, after an urban section on the outskirts of Lille, the stage will cross the mining basin and the riders will climb three hills before heading for the final 1,300-meter straight, reserved for the sprinters.

2/ Sunday, July 6, 2025 - Lauwin-Planque > Boulogne-sur-Mer - 212 km

In the Douais region, it's in Lauwin-Planque that the riders will start this 2nd stage under the watchful eye of the Giants, whose parade is scheduled for the same weekend (Fêtes de Gayant). At 212 km, this will be the longest stage of the Tour de France 2025, and the profile should appeal to puncheurs, with various difficulties building up to a crescendo over the course of the stage in the Artois and Boulonnais regions. There will be 3 climbs in the final 10 km: Côte de Saint-Étienne-au-Mont (900 m at 11%, rising to 15%, 9 km from the finish), Côte d'Outreau (800 m at 8.8%, 5.5 km from the finish) and the finish in Boulogne-sur-Mer on Boulevard Auguste Mariette (1.2 km at 3.8%). As is often the case, and particularly in view of Thierry Gouvenou's desire to reduce the number of stages finishing in sprints, A.S.O. went for a profile that would allow for a probable change in the wearer of the yellow jersey on the second day.

3/ Monday July 7, 2025 - Valenciennes > Dunkirk - 178 km

Starting in Valenciennes (where the Tour de France will return for the first time since 1991, when Jelle Nijdam won a stage there from Reims), this 3rd stage is reserved for sprinters, with only one listed climb on this stage. It will pass through Orchies and Mons-en-Pévèle (without going for the cobbles!), Béthune, Isbergues and Cassel, where the only climb of the day (already climbed on stage 1) will be climbed, 35 kilometers from the finish. It could just as easily end in a bunch sprint as in .... in a sprint by a small group, which will have managed to loosen its grip by means of an edging move, as it is precisely in these last 35 kilometers before the finish in Dunkirk (near the Marcel-Tribut stadium) that the wind could play a decisive role. It all depends on the day's weather!

4/ Tuesday, July 8, 2025 - Amiens Métropole > Rouen - 173 km

Stage 4 will take the Tour de France out of the Hauts-de-France region, starting in Amiens and heading for Normandy. Here, too, there will be exposure to the wind as they cross the Picardy plain, but once again it's the final stretch that will be decisive for this stage. In fact, it's as the stage approaches the Boucles de la Seine in the final 40 km that the puncheurs will have the upper hand, just as they did two days before: after the Côte Jacques Anquetil in Romilly-sur-Andelle, the stage will finish on a sort of loop in Rouen, with the Côte de Bonsecours (900 m at 7.2%, 20.5 km from the finish), the Côte de Grand'Mare (1.8 km at 5%, 12,5 km from the finish) and the aptly named Rampe Saint-Hilaire (900 m at 10.6%, 5.5 km from the finish) and a final short climb of 500 m at 5% before 500 m on the flat to the finish line on Boulevard de l'Yser.

5/ Wednesday, July 9, 2025 - Caen > Caen - individual time trial - 33 km

The 5th stage of the Tour de France 2025 will already be the scene of a solo effort, in the streets of Caen, which will be celebrating its millennium with this passage of the Tour de France (among others). This individual time-trial will take place in front of some of Caen's most emblematic monuments. This solo effort will take place on wide, flat roads, and is therefore reserved for true specialists in the discipline. The riders will finish near the racecourse, after a 33-kilometer battle against the clock!

6/ Thursday, July 10, 2025 - Bayeux > Vire Normandie - 201 km

From Bayeux, a town for which this will be a first, this 6th stage will take place on the home turf of Kévin Vauquelin and Guillaume Martin. It's a flat stage, but it offers a significant relief, passing through what is known as the Suisse Normande: there will be 3,500 meters of ascent and descent. There are a total of 6 listed climbs on this stage, including the Côte de Mortain and the Côte de Vaudry (1.2 km at 7.2%, 4.5 km from the finish) before the final climb to the finish at Vire Normandie (700 m at 10.2%) in the Avenue d'Atlacomulco. This will be the return of the Tour de France to Vire for the first time since 1997.

7/ Friday, July 11, 2025 - Saint-Malo > Mûr-de-Bretagne (Guerlédan) - 194 km

Saint-Malo had seen the Tour de France more recently, in 2013 (but that was for an arrival, for a departure in Saint-Malo, we have to go back to 2008), and will see it return in 2025 for the start of this 7th stage. It will enable the Tour de France 2025 to embark on a brief tour of Brittany. From Saint-Malo, it will head due south, leaving Ille-et-Vilaine and entering the Côtes d'Armor via the small village of Trévérien. This will be an opportunity to pay tribute to Bernard Hinault on the 40th anniversary of his 5th overall victory in the Tour de France, passing through Calorguen where he lives and Yffiniac near Saint-Brieuc, where he was born. Back inland and heading south for the climb to Mûr-de-Bretagne, with a local loop to complete this climb twice, as was already the case in 2021 and 2018 (when there was a bonus point for the first passage!).

8/ Saturday, July 12, 2025 Saint-Méen-le-Grand - > Laval (Espace Mayenne) - 174 km

Starting from Saint-Méen-le-Grand, another great name of the Tour de France will be celebrated: Louison Bobet, first winner of the Tour de France 3 years in a row, and whose birth centenary it will be (he was born in Saint-Méen-le-Grand).

This 8th stage will be a new opportunity for the sprinters (only the 3rd of this Tour de France 2025 if Thierry Gouvenou's plans come to fruition), arriving in the department of Mayenne, and more precisely in Laval. Logically, it should be a bunch sprint, but you'll need good legs to win it, as the final kilometer to the Espace Mayenne will be an uphill false flat.

9/ Sunday July 13, 2025 - Chinon > Châteauroux - 170 km

Chinon, which will provide a beautiful backdrop for the start of this 9th stage of the Tour de France 2025, will discover the Grande Boucle and the riders will first head for Chatellerault (the town of Sylvain Chavanel who, with his 18 Tour de France participations, is the most frequent participant in the French Grand Tour) and then cover almost 80 kilometers in the department of Indre. The last 30 kilometers are particularly exposed, and the wind could once again play a role in the course of this stage, but we're well used to massive sprints in Châteauroux with, in particular, the king of sprints (winner of 35 stages in the Tour de France, an all-time record after beating Eddy Merckx this year), Mark Cavendish, who has distinguished himself here 3 times (2008, 2011 and 2021; almost enough to make him want to come back for a 36th? 😉).

10/ Monday, July 14, 2025 - Ennezat > Le Mont-Dore (Puy de Sancy) - 163 km

On Monday, July 14, the Tour de France 2025 peloton won't be resting just yet. On the contrary, from Ennezat (near Riom and Clermont-Ferrand), which of course has never seen the Tour de France before, the peloton sets off on a very hilly stage. From Châtel-Guyon (on the other side of Riom), this will be just the beginning of their troubles, as it will be the first of 8 classified climbs. Then there's the ascent to La Baraque, at the foot of the Puy de Dôme (which gives its name to the département in which the entire stage takes place), Charade and Berzet, and 3 other climbs before the final climb: the Col de Guéry, part of the Col de la Croix Morand and the Col de la Croix Saint-Robert. The final climb is to Le Mont-Dore, at the foot of the Puy de Sancy. This stage represents a total of 4,400 m of ascent.

R1/ Tuesday, July 15, 2025 - rest in Toulouse

After another transfer (I've spared you the mention of the others, but I'll let you have a look at the map to see) and this first really tough stage, the riders can then rest this Tuesday, July 15, 2025, in Toulouse.

11/ Wednesday, July 16, 2025 - Toulouse > Toulouse - 154 km

After this rest, it's time for the Tour de France 2025, as this 11th stage takes place in a loop starting from the pink city of Toulouse. Logic would dictate that, with the finish also in Toulouse, this stage will be reserved for the sprinters. However, not only will the course not be completely flat, especially in the last 50 km, but - according to Christian Prudhomme - a very nasty steep climb awaits the riders, the Côte de Pech David, 8 km from the finish, with a gradient of up to 20%.

12/ Thursday July 17, 2025 - Auch > Hautacam - 181 km

The 12th stage of the Tour de France 2025 will take it back to the Pyrenees, starting in Auch, which has been waiting for the return of the Tour de France since 1977. After 100 kilometers on the plains, the climbers will finally feel at home in the Pyrenees. It all starts in Ferrières with the 11.9 km ascent of the Col du Soulor (at 7.3%, see profile), followed by the Col des Bordères and finally the final climb to Hautacam (13.6 km at 7.8%). In total, this will represent a positive vertical drop of 3,850 m.

13/ Friday, July 18, 2025 - Loudenvielle > Peyragudes - individual time trial - 11 km

This Friday, July 18, 2025 is the second Pyrenean stage, and also the second time trial. However, it will be quite different from the first, which starts from Loudenvielle, because even if it's shorter, it won't be any easier! Of the 11 kilometers that make up the solo route, 8 will be uphill over 620 meters of ascent, towards the resort of Peyragudes, where the finish will be judged on the altiport runway made famous by James Bond.

14/ Saturday, July 19, 2025 - Pau > Luchon-Superbagnères - 183 km

Pau will be on the Tour de France route again in 2025, for the 76th time since 1930! Once again, the first part of the stage will be flat, before a series of difficulties, starting with the Col du Tourmalet via Luz-Saint-Sauveur (19 km at 7.4%). This is followed by the Col d'Aspin via Payolle (5 km at 7.6%) and the Col de Peyresourde, before the final climb to the resort of Luchon-Superbagnères (12.4 km at 7.5%). This stage will be run in exactly the same way as the one that took place in 1986, with a positive altitude difference of 4,950 m. Superbagnères has waited 36 years for the Tour de France riders to return to the resort, the last visit dating back to 1989. Now that the bridges, which were previously too narrow, have been rebuilt and a new gondola has been installed, the conditions are right again for the Grande Boucle to visit the resort.

15/ Sunday, July 20, 2025 - Muret > Carcassonne - 169 km

A transition stage will precede the second rest day. It will start in Muret, which has seen the Tour de France on several occasions in recent years. However, the route will present several difficulties with high gradients and a positive vertical drop of 2,400 m. These include the Côte de Saint-Ferreol via Revel, and the Pas du Sant (2.9 km at no less than 10%). The final 40 km of the stage, however, is slightly downhill towards the medieval city of Carcassonne, so the sprinters may well find some inspiration ... unless the wind gets in the way!

R2/ Monday July 21, 2025 - rest in Montpellier

Time to rest, then, after a few days in the Pyrenees, this time in the other capital of Occitanie, Montpellier.

16/ Tuesday July 22, 2025 - Montpellier > Mont Ventoux - 172 km

Montpellier will also be the start town the day after the second rest day, for a stage that will be mostly flat as far as Bédoin, but ... that ends with a well-known climb in the region, that of Mont Ventoux. The Géant de Provence will force the riders into an explanation on the last 15.7 km of the stage, at 8.8%.

17/ Wednesday, July 23, 2025 - Bollène > Valence - 161 km

The stage from Bollène is a flat one, and the finish in Valence is likely to be a bunch sprint. Once again, there's a slight risk of tackles in the event of wind, bearing in mind that there are several changes of direction in the last 50 km, which could come as a surprise to some.

18/ Thursday, July 24, 2025 - Vif > Courchevel (Col de la Loze) - 171 km

Beneath the fumes of Grenoble, the whole world meets up in the small town of Vif for the start of stage 18. This will be the most demanding day of the Tour de France 2025, with 3 hors catégorie passes and 5,500 meters of ascent. Above the Grand'Maison dam lake, the riders will climb the Col du Glandon (21.7 km at 5.1%), before crossing into the Tarentaise via the Col de la Madeleine at 2000 m altitude (19.2 km at 7.9%). After passing through Moûtiers, they reach the foot of the final climb, the Col de la Loze, which takes them up to Courchevel via the Col de la Loze, an unprecedented climb on the Tour de France and the roof of the Tour de France 2025 at 2,304 m (26.2 km at 6.5%).

19/ Friday, July 25, 2025 - Albertville > La Plagne - 130 km

The second alpine stage will be relatively short, but it's not much simpler than the previous one, after its start from Albertville. The riders soon climb the Côté d'Héry-sur-Ugine (11.3 km at 5.1%), which after a short descent leads to the ascent of the Col des Saisies (13.7 km at 6.4%). After the descent to Beaufort, a new series of difficulties awaits them, starting with the Col du Pré (12.6 km at 7.7%), which follows the magnificent view of the lake at the dam on the Cormet de Roselend (5.9 km at 6.3%). The descent then takes them to Bourg-Saint-Maurice, then further down to Aime-la-Plagne, where they begin the final climb to the resort of La Plagne (19.1 km at 7.2%). All in all, a positive vertical drop of 4,600 m.

20/ Saturday, July 26, 2025 - Nantua > Pontarlier - 185 km

After yet another transfer, the penultimate stage in the Jura is on the program... but what does it really add, since the overall classification will probably not be decided here? After the start in Nantua, it's a stage for the adventurous, and one of them could take advantage of the opportunity to take the stage victory he's still missing on this Tour de France 2025. They'll find, among others, the Col de la Croix de la Serra and the Côte de Thesy in Salins-les-Bains. The stage will finish in Pontarlier.

21/ Sunday, July 27, 2025 - Mantes-la-Ville > Paris Champs-Elysées - 120 km

The very last stage will start in Mantes-la-Ville in the Yvelines département, and will be the shortest stage of this Tour de France 2025, for a moment of champagne before passing through the Côte du Pavé des Gardes and arriving in Paris on the Champs-Elysées. In 2025, the 50th anniversary of the first arrival of the Tour de France on the Champs-Elysées will be celebrated.

The Tour de France 2025 route in 3D

Here's the video of the Tour de France 2025 route:

Tour de France 2025 route map

Here's the complete route of the Tour de France 2025 :

Tour de France 2025 poster

The route of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift 2025

On the same occasion, the route of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift 2025, 4th edition of the name, was also announced. The route, composed of 9 stages, presents a balanced itinerary, running diagonally across the country from Brittany to Châtel at the gateway to Switzerland.

door Thomas Vergouwen
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