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Christian Prudhomme revealed the route of the 2027 Tour de France at the Palais des Congrès de Paris on Thursday. From 2 to 25 July, the peloton will face one challenge after another on its 3,479 km adventure between Edinburgh and Paris.
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Sprinters and puncheurs will have their work cut out for them as the race winds its way through Scotland, England and Wales before heading home via Normandy. Once in France, the road will bend towards the sky in Morvan and the Alps before leading the riders to Mende and onto the decisive showdown in the Pyrenees. A special test awaits the climbers on the Côte de Domancy, en route to Sallanches.
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Yellow Jersey contenders will have to prove their mettle in two individual time trials (one in Chambord and another in Toulouse). Their combined length makes the 114th Tour the most ITT-intensive edition since 2012.
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Alongside the Tour, two challenges await amateur cyclists in summer 2027: L’Étape du Tour de France on 11 July, covering 150 km from Cluses to the resort of Les Saisies; and L’Étape du Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift on 8 August, taking riders on a 138 km journey through the volcanic range, with the Puy de Dôme as its centrepiece, where the professional women will have crossed the final finish line the previous day.
One year after its southernmost start, in Catalonia, the Grande Boucle will venture further north than ever before when the riders hop into the saddle in Edinburgh in 2027. This will have a big impact on the race, pitting the peloton against increasingly rugged terrain on either side of the Channel. By the time the bunch rolls into the Jura department at the end of the opening week, it will be scarred from a fierce battle across a tapestry of terrains.
Scotland, Wales and England have something for every type of rider: sprinters will be eyeing the inaugural Yellow Jersey in the streets of Carlisle, while high-horsepower attackers will try to give the peloton the slip in Liverpool and the overall contenders will hit the front heading into Geraint Thomas's hometown of Cardiff. On the other side of the English Channel, the puncheur's paradise will continue in Cherbourg-in-Cotentin (stage 4) and Plumelec, after a double serving of the Côte de Cadoudal (stage 5). The plains will be just as tough, spectacular and, most importantly, decisive in a lightning-fast time trial between Blois and Chambord (stage 7). After feasting their eyes on the castles of the Loire, power riders will get another shot at victory in Toulouse (stage 16). The two races against the clock come in at a combined 71 km, more than in any edition since 2012.
Whoever opens up a gap in the time trials will have to defend it on the other fronts. The French mountain ranges offer no shortage of opportunities. The ascent to Signal d'Uchon and the finish in Le Creusot (stage 8) will bring fans back to that crazy day in July 2021 when Matej Mohorič stormed to victory, Wout van Aert and Mathieu van der Poel duked it out and Primož Roglič had a day to forget. A week later, the course between Montpellier and Mende (stage 14) will be yet another reminder that a really determined attacker has no need to wait until the high mountains. The Côte de La Croix Neuve will be the sting in the tail of an unexpected sequence in Cévennes, with a total altitude gain of 4,300 metres and the first visit to the Cirque de Navacelles.
Heading towards Sallanches (stage 10), the peloton will tackle the tracks that will crown the heir to Bernard Hinault, with two ascents of the Côte de Domancy. In a nod to the Worlds scheduled for August 2027, the 21st and final stage will hit the road in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, the venue of the track and BMX competitions. After several opportunities in Angers (stage 6), Valence (stage 12), Montpellier (stage 13), Pau (stage 17) and Libourne (stage 20), the sprinters will be eager to finally overcome the Montmartre circuit to retake the Champs-Élysées and, with it, the final victory of the 2027 Tour, three weeks after the first one in Britain. The stage from Albi to Rodez (stage 15), in contrast, is too difficult for them and has "breakaway" written all over it.
Meanwhile, pure climbers will be waiting to sink their teeth into long, hard sequences of mountains. The Col du Berthiand and the Col de Richemond will stand between the peloton and victory atop the Grand Colombier (stage 9). On 14 July, the Alpine goats will use the Col du Pré and the Montée de Bisanne as a springboard towards the Les Saisies resort, which is making its Tour debut (stage 11). In the Pyrenees, the gargantuan Col du Tourmalet (peaking at 2,115 masl) and Col du Portet (2,215 masl) will be paired for the first time (stage 18), followed by Le Soulor and the Hourquette d'Ancizan! The next day, the final mountain battle of the Tour will be fought in the Basque Country, building up to the climax on the Col de Marie-Blanque before plunging towards Laruns (stage 19). The Tour may be won in the Pyrenees, but it could be lost anywhere else.
L’Étape du Tour de France 2027: heading for Les Saisies
- The benchmark cyclosportive, which brings together 16,000 amateur riders each year to tackle the route of a Tour de France mountain stage several days before the professionals, will take place on 11 July 2027.
- The 35th edition will take riders along the route of stage 11 of the Tour de France: 154 kilometres from Cluses to the resort of Les Saisies, a first-time finish for both the Tour and L’Étape!
- A demanding climbing programme awaits, with 4,850 m of total elevation gain. Of the five climbs counting towards the professionals’ mountains classification, the final ascents form a formidable sequence over the last 50 kilometres. The climb to the Col du Pré (12.6 km at an average gradient of 7.8%), which L’Étape du Tour de France regulars already tackled in 2025 on their way to La Plagne, will be followed by the equally demanding climb to Bisanne (12.4 km at 8.3%).
CLASSIFICATION JERSEYS: DESIGNED BY CASTELLI
In addition to the routes of the men's and women's 2027 Tour, the presentation ceremony also unveiled the new classification jerseys. The Italian brand Castelli is returning to the Grande Boucle after putting Greg LeMond and Miguel Indurain in yellow, Sean Kelly in green and Claudio Chiappucci in polka dots between 1989 and 1994.
Its famous scorpion logo, which goes all the way back to 1974, will be seen again on the jerseys of the Tour, but the six-year partnership deal spans a total of 27 cycling and cyclosportive events. In addition to stage races such as La Vuelta, Paris–Nice and the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, technical apparel collections will be designed for Paris–Roubaix Hauts-de-France and Liège–Bastogne–Liège, not to mention L'Étape du Tour de France and L'Étape du Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift.
