Tour de France 2027 route: all 21 stages

The 114th Tour de France starts in Edinburgh on Friday 2 July 2027 and spends its first three days in Scotland, England and Wales before crossing to Normandy. It finishes on the Champs-Élysées on Sunday 25 July. The organisers presented the route on 22 October 2026. Every stage below is as letour.fr publishes it, checked against two cycling outlets, with our own maps and ten years of July weather at every start and finish.

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The 2027 route at a glance

• 21 stages, 3,479 km (before homologation, so the figures can still move slightly) and 53,450 m of climbing.
• 7 flat, 6 hilly and 6 mountain stages and 2 individual time trials, by the organisers' count (there's a note on stage 6 under the table).
• Three summit finishes: the Grand Colombier (stage 9), Les Saisies (stage 11) and the Col du Portet (stage 18). At 2,215 m, the Col du Portet is the highest point of the race.
• 71 km against the clock, the most since 2012: 38 km from Blois to Chambord (stage 7) and 33 km in Toulouse (stage 16).
• Three rest days: Monday 5 July in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, Monday 12 July in Haute-Savoie and Monday 19 July in Toulouse.
• The mountains come in this order, as the organisers put it: the Massif Central, the Jura, the Alps and the Pyrenees.
• Bonus seconds of 10, 6 and 4 for the first three at the finish of every road stage, and an intermediate sprint on every road stage.
• 38 stage towns, nine of them new to the Tour: Edinburgh, Carlisle, Keswick, Liverpool, Welshpool, Cardiff, Pontorson, Les Saisies and Hasparren. In France the race visits 9 regions and 31 departments.
• The 28th Grand Départ outside France, and the third in Great Britain, after London in 2007 and Yorkshire in 2014.

All 21 stages of the 2027 Tour de France

Tap a stage for its map, its numbers and its usual weather.

Distances and climbing (the organisers’ D+, the total height gained) are letour.fr’s, before homologation: they can still change slightly. * letour.fr’s stage list and stage 6’s own page mark Vannes to Angers as hilly, which makes 6 flat and 7 hilly stages; its route summary counts 7 flat and 6 hilly. We show each stage as its own page labels it.

What is the weather usually like on the 2027 route?

The race heads south into the heat. In Great Britain, 15:00 was usually about 16 to 18°, with a south-westerly or westerly breeze of 16 to 18 km/h and rain on about half the days or more: 6 to 7 days in 10 at Keswick and Liverpool. By the second week the afternoons are warm to hot. Aubenas, the start of stage 13, was the hottest place on the route, about 30° at 15:00 and 30° or more on 7 days in 10, and Valence and Toulouse reached 30° on about half the days. The afternoon wind is lightest in the mountains, about 5 to 7 km/h in the Alps and at the Col du Portet, and Montpellier was the driest stop, with rain on about 1 day in 10.

Each stage below has its own numbers. For a single ride rather than a whole Tour, see how race-day weather works with ChatGPT or Claude.

Week one: Edinburgh to the Grand Colombier (stages 1–9)

Stage 1: Edinburgh to Carlisle

Friday 2 July. The race opens in Scotland's capital and crosses into England to finish in Carlisle, 185 km away: a flat stage by the organisers' reckoning, with 2,000 m of climbing. Both towns are new to the Tour, and the first yellow jersey of 2027 is decided here.

Stage 2: Keswick to Liverpool

Saturday 3 July. From Keswick, in the Lake District, to Liverpool: 223 km, one of the longest days of the race, classed as hilly, with 3,000 m of climbing. Both are first-time stage towns.

Stage 3: Welshpool to Cardiff

Sunday 4 July. A Welsh day, also 223 km and hilly with 3,000 m of climbing, from Welshpool to the capital, Cardiff. Then the race leaves Great Britain: Monday 5 July is the first rest day, in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin.

Stage 4: Cherbourg-en-Cotentin

Tuesday 6 July. The first stage in France starts and finishes in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, on the Cotentin peninsula in Normandy: 171 km, hilly, with 2,200 m of climbing.

Stage 5: Pontorson to Plumelec

Wednesday 7 July. From Pontorson, in Normandy and new to the Tour, into Brittany to finish in Plumelec: 178 km, hilly, with 1,900 m of climbing.

Stage 6: Vannes to Angers

Thursday 8 July. East from Vannes, in Brittany, to Angers on the Loire side: 193 km with 1,500 m of climbing, the least of any road stage in the first week. letour.fr's stage pages call it hilly, though its summary counts one more flat stage and one fewer hilly stage than those pages add up to (see the note under the table).

Stage 7: Blois to Chambord, individual time trial

Friday 9 July. The first of the two time trials: 38 km on your own from Blois to Chambord, in the Loire Valley, with just 200 m of climbing. It's the longer of the two.

Stage 8: Bourges to Le Creusot

Saturday 10 July. At 224 km, from Bourges to Le Creusot, the longest stage of the race: hilly, with 3,100 m of climbing.

Stage 9: Villars-les-Dombes Parc des Oiseaux to the Grand Colombier

Sunday 11 July. The first mountain stage and the first summit finish: 162 km from the Parc des Oiseaux at Villars-les-Dombes to the top of the Grand Colombier, in the Jura, with 3,750 m of climbing. Monday 12 July is the second rest day, in Haute-Savoie.

Week two: the Alps to Albi (stages 10–15)

Stage 10: Annecy to Sallanches

Tuesday 13 July. Into the Alps, from Annecy to Sallanches: 171 km, a mountain stage with 3,750 m of climbing, finishing in the valley town rather than on a summit.

Stage 11: Cluses to Les Saisies

Wednesday 14 July, France's national day. The second summit finish, at Les Saisies, new to the Tour: 150 km from Cluses with 4,750 m of climbing, the second-most of any stage, packed into the shortest mountain stage.

Stage 12: Chambéry to Valence

Thursday 15 July. Out of the Alps to Valence on the Rhône: 162 km, flat, with 1,600 m of climbing.

Stage 13: Aubenas to Montpellier

Friday 16 July. From Aubenas, in the Ardèche, to Montpellier: 164 km, flat, with 1,500 m of climbing.

Stage 14: Montpellier to Mende

Saturday 17 July. From the Mediterranean side up to Mende, in the Lozère: 199 km, the longest of the mountain stages, with 4,300 m of climbing. It isn't one of the three summit finishes on the organisers' list.

Stage 15: Rodez to Albi

Sunday 18 July. From Rodez to Albi: 169 km, hilly, with 2,500 m of climbing. Monday 19 July is the last rest day, in Toulouse.

Week three: Toulouse to Paris (stages 16–21)

Stage 16: Toulouse, individual time trial

Tuesday 20 July. The second time trial, 33 km in Toulouse with 200 m of climbing, straight after the rest day there.

Stage 17: Muret to Pau

Wednesday 21 July. From Muret, just south of Toulouse, to Pau at the foot of the Pyrenees: 186 km, flat, with 2,000 m of climbing.

Stage 18: Pau to Saint-Lary-Soulan Col du Portet

Thursday 22 July. The race's highest point and its most climbing in one day: 174 km from Pau to the summit finish on the Col du Portet, at 2,215 m above Saint-Lary-Soulan, with 5,400 m of climbing, more than any other stage.

Stage 19: Hasparren to Laruns

Friday 23 July. The last mountain stage, from Hasparren, in the Basque Country and new to the Tour, to Laruns: 160 km with 4,300 m of climbing.

Stage 20: Maubourguet to Libourne

Saturday 24 July. North from Maubourguet to Libourne, in the Gironde: 198 km, flat, with 1,700 m of climbing.

Stage 21: Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines to Paris Champs-Élysées

Sunday 25 July. The finale: 116 km from Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, south-west of Paris, to the Champs-Élysées, with 800 m of climbing.

Where these facts come from

Every stage's number, date, start and finish, distance, type, climbing and summit finish is from the organisers' 2027 route page and each stage's own page on letour.fr, as published on 22 October 2026, and checked against Cyclingnews and ProCyclingUK. Where they differ, we use the organisers' figure. The maps are ours, drawn from the stage towns' coordinates on Natural Earth's public-domain outlines; the lines join each start and finish and aren't the roads. The weather is Copernicus ERA5, 2015–2024. livedot isn't connected with the Tour de France or its organisers.

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