Classic favourites Mont Ventoux, Mûr-de-Bretagne return to Tour de France route in 2025
The Mont Ventoux summit will host a stage finish on the Tour for the first time in 12 years, with the entire race taking place on French soil.
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After 12 years, Mont Ventoux is returning to the Tour de France route as a stage finish next year.
The course of the race, the second men's road cycling Grand Tour of the season which will take place from 5–27 July 2025, as well as the women's Tour de France Femmes was announced at a presentation in Paris on Tuesday (29 October).
Mont Ventoux will play host to the finish line of Stage 16 on 22 July, a 172km (107mi) ride that begins in Montpellier. It will be the first time since 2013 a stage has ended at the summit of the mountain. A stage finish in 2016 had to be lowered due to high winds, while the 2021 Tour crossed Ventoux twice on a stage ending in Malaucène.
Also returning to the race is the Superbagnères climb in Luchon, which is making its first appearance in 36 years since it was last included in 1989. Stage 14 from Pau nearly follows the exact route of the stage that was raced between both locations in 1986.
The punchy Mûr-de-Bretagne, won in a show of force by Mathieu van der Poel on its last appearance in 2021, is also back on the programme on Stage 7.
Details of the Tour de France 2025 route
Of the 21 stages, seven are flat, six hilly, six mountainous (with five mountain-top finishes), and two individual time trials. All 3320km (2063mi) of the race will be entirely inside France, the first time the race has not left French territory since 2020.
The highest point of the Tour – which will award the Souvenir Henri Desgrange – will be the Col de la Loze (2304m, 7559ft), at the finish of Stage 18. The mountain will be climbed from the east, from Courchevel, for the first time. Stage 18 also sees the most climbing on a single day, with over 5500m (18,044ft) of elevation gain.
Two individual time trials – one flat, one mountainous – are on the schedule. The riders face a classic 33km flat test in Caen early in the race, before a short but painful 11km with 650m of altitude gain to Peyragudes on Stage 13.
The 176 riders of the peloton will undergo a total of 51,550m (169,127ft) of elevation gain during the race.
Notably, the first rest day of the 2025 Tour has been pushed back to the second Tuesday of the race, as the second Monday is Bastille Day, which will be marked by the first true mountain stage ending at Puy de Sancy.
After finishing in Nice with a time trial in 2024, the 2025 race returns to the Champs-Élysées in Paris, 50 years after the boulevard first hosted the race conclusion.
Tadej Pogacar is the defending champion of the Tour de France.
Schedule and stages of 2025 Tour de France
- Saturday 5 July, Stage 1: Lille Métropole — Lille Métropole, 185km, flat stage
- Sunday 6 July, Stage 2: Lauwin-Planque — Boulogne-sur-Mer, 212km, hilly stage
- Monday 7 July, Stage 3: Valenciennes — Dunkerque, 178km, flat stage
- Tuesday 8 July, Stage 4: Amiens Métropole — Rouen, 173km, hilly stage
- Wednesday 9 July, Stage 5: Caen — Caen, 33km, flat individual time trial
- Thursday 10 July, Stage 6: Bayeux — Vire Normandie, 201km, hilly stage
- Friday 11 July, Stage 7: Saint-Malo — Mûr-de-Bretagne Guerlédan, 194km, hilly stage
- Saturday 12 July, Stage 8: Saint-Méen-le-Grand — Laval Espace Mayenne, 174km, flat stage
- Sunday 13 July, Stage 9: Chinon — Chäteauroux, 170km, flat stage
- Monday 14 July, Stage 10: Ennezat — Le Mont-Dore Puy de Sancy, 163km, mountain stage
- Tuesday 15 July: Rest day 1, Toulouse
- Wednesday 16 July, Stage 11: Toulouse — Toulouse, 154km, flat stage
- Thursday 17 July, Stage 12: Auch — Hautacam, 181km, mountain stage
- Friday 18 July, Stage 13: Loudenville — Peyragudes, 11km, mountain individual time trial
- Saturday 19 July, Stage 14: Pau — Luchon-Superbagnères, 183km, mountain stage
- Sunday 20 July, Stage 15: Muret — Carcassonne, 169km, hilly stage
- Monday 21 July: Rest day 2, Montpellier
- Tuesday 22 July, Stage 16: Montpellier — Mont Ventoux, 172km, mountain stage
- Wednesday 23 July, Stage 17: Bollène — Valence, 161km, flat stage
- Thursday 24 July, Stage 18: Vif — Courchevel Col de la Loze, 171km, mountain stage
- Friday 25 July, Stage 19: Albertville — La Plagne, 130km, mountain stage
- Saturday 26 July, Stage 20: Nantua — Pontarlier, 185km, hilly stage
- Sunday 27 July, Stage 21: Mantes-la-Ville — Paris Champs-Élysées, 120km, flat stage
Tour de France Femmes route 2025
The Tour de France Femmes (26 July–3 August) will celebrate its fourth edition next year with the longest parcours yet.
A total of 154 riders from 22 teams will race over 1165km (724mi) across nine stages, with a total of 17,240m (56,561ft) of altitude gain.
The highest point of the tour is on the penultimate Stage 8 at the Col de la Madeleine (2000m, 6561ft), the finish point of the stage. That stage will also see the most climbing, with an elevation gain of 3,490m (11,450ft).
Kasia Niewiadoma is the defending champion of the Tour de France Femmes.
Schedule and stages of 2025 Tour de France Femmes
- Saturday 26 July, Stage 1: Vannes — Plumelec, 79km, hilly stage
- Sunday 27 July, Stage 2: Brest — Quimper, 110km, flat stage
- Monday 28 July, Stage 3: La Gacilly — Angers, 162km, flat stage
- Tuesday 29 July, Stage 4: Saumur — Poitiers, 128km, flat stage
- Wednesday 30 July, Stage 5: Jaunay-Marigny Futuroscope — Guéret, 166km, medium mountain stage
- Thursday 31 July, Stage 6: Clermont-Ferrand — Ambert, 124km, mountain stage
- Friday 1 August, Stage 7: Bourg-en-Bresse — Chambéry, 160km, hilly stage
- Saturday 2 August, Stage 8: Chambéry — Saint François Longchamp - Col de la Madeleine, 112km, mountain stage
- Sunday 3 August, Stage 9: Praz-sur-Arly — Châtel, 124km, mountain stage