The next edition of the event will take place entirely in France for the first time since 2021 Tour de Francewhose journey was presented in Paris. The start of the Grande Boucle n.112 will be on July 5th from Lille, two time trials including a mountain one in Peyragudes, seven uphill finishes, including Mont Ventoux, Col de la Loze and Superbagneres, and return to Paris, after the brackets in Nice to coincide with the Olympics, for the final stage on 27 July. 3320 km in total. “We have decided to bring the Tour home,” said the race director, Christian Prudhomme, after the last three editions started outside France in Copenhagen, Bilbao and last year in Florence. The entire 2025 route is a tribute to the great myths of French cycling, from Jean Robic and Louison Bobet to Jacques Anquetil, from Bernard Hinault, Bernard Thevenet to Laurent Fignon.
“Everything in France? Big Departures abroad are fundamental, because they allow the Tour to shine even more – the words of Prudhomme in an interview with L’Equipe – But you have to do them as long as you also go to our medium and small cities. After three Grand Départs abroad, this time we will start in lands that have a visceral love for cycling. In the first week we will cross the North, Normandy and Brittany, three of the regions that made French cycling great. We are doing our utmost to reach all regions, year after year. The rule we have set ourselves is that, within five years, we must touch every corner of France. Then there is the exception of Corsica, but that is a different matter.”
The first week
The 2025 Tour will start from Lille, the starting and finishing site of the first stage and which will probably give a sprinter the first yellow jersey. The second, more lively stage takes place in Boulogne-sur-Mer: the last 10 kilometers include two climbs with significant gradients and a final slightly uphill stretch. The third stage will end in Dunkirk: new opportunity for the sprinters, but be careful of the wind. From Amiens to Rouen in the fourth stage on a route that includes three gpm in the last 25 km, including the Rampe Saint-Hilaire (900 meters at 10%). The fifth stage will start and finish in Caen and will be an individual time trial of 33 km, almost entirely flat. More than 3500 meters of positive difference in altitude and the finish line in Vire Normandie, at the end of a 700 meter climb at a 10.2% gradient for the sixth stage. And then one of the classics of recent years, the M?r de Bretagne in Guerlédan. Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th July two stages for sprinters with arrivals in Laval and Chateauroux. Appendix to the first week, dutiful, July 14th on the Massif Central: arrival on Puy Sancy, Mont-Doré location with 4400 meters of positive difference in altitude along the roads of the Massif Central.
The second week
We start again on Wednesday 16 July with the 11th stage, a ring around Toulouse: some surprises cannot be ruled out, given the presence of the Pech David gap, 8 kilometers from the finish, which also reaches a 20% gradient. And here, at the twelfth, the Pyrenees: departure from Auch and arrival in Hautacam, which will be reached after also climbing the Col du Soulor and the Col des Borderes. The thirteenth stage is fundamental, a timed climb: it starts from Loudenvielle and arrives in Peyragudes, for 11 kilometers of total route and 7 of climbing. The classic Pyrenean ride on stage 14, from Pau to Luchon-Superbagnères: 183 kilometres, with the Col du Tourmalet, the Col d’Aspin, the Col de Peyresourde and the uphill finish (12.4 km at 7.5% ). Stage number 15, arriving in Carcassonne, should be quieter. At that point, the group will move to Montpellier, where there will be a rest day.
The third week
We will set off again on Tuesday 22 July in the direction of Mont Ventoux, which will once again be the stage arrival site after 12 years. The next day we will arrive in Valence, a finish line for sprinters. Then on Thursday 24th, the grand finale of the Tour 2025 will begin: it goes from Vif to Courchevel, for 171 kilometers which include the ascents of the Col du Glandon, the Col de la Madeleine and, indeed, the one towards the Col de la Loze and Courchevel . For stage number 19 there is the arrival in La Plagne preceded by four Mountain Grand Prix and by an altitude profile with very little plain. On Saturday 26 July we will go from Nantua to Pontarlier, for a bumpy stage in the Jura. Finally, the final walkway, which returns to the Champs-Elysées of Paris, which will be reached after leaving Mantes and after 120 km, obviously very calm.
The stages
Stage 1 (05/07): Lille – Lille (185 km)
Tappa 2 (06/07): Lauwin-Planque – Boulogne-sur-Mer (212 km)
Tappa 3 (07/07): Valenciennes – Dunkirk (178 km)
Tappa 4 (08/07): Amiens – Rouen (173 km)
Stage 5 (09/07): Caen – Caen (33 km, chrono)
Tappa 6 (10/07): Bayeux – Vire Normandy (201 km)
Tappa 7 (11/07): Saint-Malo – Mûr-de-Bretagne (194 km)
Tappa 8 (12/07): Saint Meen Le Grand – Laval (174 km)
Tappa 9 (13/07): Chinon – Châteauroux (170 km)
Tappa 10 (07/14): Ennezat – Le Mont Dore (163 km)
Tappa 11 (16/07): Toulouse – Toulouse (154 km)
Tappa 12 (17/07): Auch – Hautacam (181 km)
Stage 13 (18/07): Loudenvielle – Peyragudes (11 km, time trial)
Stage 14 (19/07): Pau – Luchon-Superbagnères (183 km)
Stage 15 (20/07): Muret – Carcassonne (169 km)
Stage 16 (22/07): Montpellier – Mont Ventoux (172 km)
Tappa 17 (23/07): Bollène – Valence (161 km)
Stage 18 (24/07): Vif – Courchevel / Col de la Loze (171 km)
Tappa 19 (25/07): Albertville – La Plagne (130 km)
Tappa 20 (26/07): Nantua – Pontarlier (185 km)
Stage 21 (27/07): Mantes la Ville – Paris (120 km)
He Tour Women
The Tour de France Femmes 2025 will take place from 26 July to 3 August. One more day on the route compared to 2024: starting from Brittany, in Vannes, to end in the Alps, in Chatel, at the end of 1,165 kilometers and a total difference in altitude of 17,240 metres. The first real uphill arrival will be in the eighth stage, with the challenging finish line in Saint-François-Longchamp, or rather on the Col de la Madeleine, which with its 18.6 kilometers at 8.1% average crowns a stage of 112 kilometers arriving again from Chambéry, for a total difference in altitude of 3490 metres. This year too it will be anything but a final catwalk to conclude the women’s Grande Boucle given that between Praz-sur-Arly and Chatel Les Portes du Soleil there will be a difference in altitude of 2880 metres, with three GPMs, including the Col de Joux-Plane (11.6km at 8.5%) as a watershed of a day that could put on a show even from afar.
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