The Tour de France 2027

Le Tour 2027 - A GUIDE TO THE ROUTE

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The 2027 Tour de France starts on Friday 2nd July in Edinburgh, Scotland, and finishes in Paris on Sunday 25th July. In a historic foreign Grand Départ, the peloton spends its first three days in Britain, with riders crossing Scotland, England, and Wales, before taking an unusually early rest on day 4. The early pause will presumably be needed in order to give the teams, their supporters, the "caravan" and thousands more followers time to cross the Channel to Normandy and go through the new UK and EU border controls.

Unlike recent editions, the 2027 route takes a sweeping path clear across the country from northwest to southeast, before turning back to the west cost via the Pyrenees and finishing in Paris. With over 70 km of individual time trials and major stages in the Alps, the south of the Massif Central, and the Pyrenees, riders face a heavily varied terrain with plenty of opportunities for sprinters and mountain climbers.

After three opening days in Great Britain, with finishes in Carlisle, Liverpool, and Cardiff, followed by the rest day in Cherbourg, the French part of the Tour begins with a circular race through the Normandy countryside around Cherbourg, after which stage 5, starting close to the Mont Saint Michel, goes west into Brittany, then down to near the mouth of the Loire. Stage 6 takes riders from Vannes up the Loire valley as far as Angers, after which stage 7 is a 38 km time trial between Blois and Chambord, the most famous of the great Loire valley chateaux.  Stage 8 then sees riders set off from Bourges (selected as European capital of culture for 2028), going southeast into Burgundy, via the historic small town of Autun, to the former iron and steel town of Le Creusot. Stage 9, starting in Villars les Dombes, famous for its wildfowl centre, takes riders into their first mountain stage in the southern Jura.

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Stages 10 to 12 are classic Alpine races, taking in the picturesque small city of  Annecy, Sallanches, and Les Saisies. Stage 13,  relatively flat, avoids the twisting climbs of the Cevennes to take riders along a fairly easy route down to  Montpellier. Stage 14 is more gruelling, with climbs up and down the Cévennes mountains, and along the full length of  the spectacular part of the Tarn Gorge, for a finish at Mende, capital of the Lozère, the most sparsely populated department in France. Stage 15 takes riders between the two great medieval cathedral cities of southwest France, Rodez and  Albi.

Following the rest day in Toulouse, the final week opens with a 33 km individual time trial around Toulouse, before heading off through Gascony (stage 17) for two and a half days in the Pyrenees, including classic mountain passes, a summit finish at Col du Portet and classic Pyrenean terrain near Laruns.

The Tour concludes with a sprinter-friendly leg to Libourne before a final day on Sunday 25th July, in the Paris area, from Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines to the west of the city, tor the traditional grand finale on the Champs-Élysées.