{"id":942025,"date":"2026-10-22T11:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T11:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/942025\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T11:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T11:50:13","slug":"tour-de-france-2027-routes-revealed-with-british-stages-time-trials-and-a-volcano-tour-de-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/942025\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France 2027 routes revealed with British stages, time-trials and a volcano | Tour de France"},"content":{"rendered":"

Edinburgh will host the most northerly Tour de France<\/a> start in 2027 while the Pyrenees will provide the competitive finale of next year\u2019s route, which was announced in Paris on Thursday, while the Tour de France Femmes will conclude on a volcano, \u2060the Puy de D\u00f4me.<\/p>\n

A year after the race\u2019s most southerly start in Barcelona, the Scottish capital will surpass the 2022 Grand D\u00e9part in Copenhagen in the opposite direction as, for the fifth time in six years, the Tour sets off from abroad.<\/p>\n

The Edinburgh start had been known for more than a year and the first three stages in Britain \u2013 in Scotland, England and then Wales \u2013 were revealed in January. But organisers ASO published the full route, with two individual time-trials and a closing stage around Paris taking on the already classic Montmartre climb for the third year running.<\/p>\n

A view of the route for stage one of the 2027 Tour. Illustration: TdFStage two of the Tour will take riders from Keswick to Liverpool. Illustration: TdF<\/p>\n

That is sure to whet the appetite after the past two years produced thrilling finishes, with Wout van Aert taking the victory in 2025 and Mathieu van der Poel, with a bit of help from the overall winner Tadej Pogacar, holding off a charging peloton by inches back in July.<\/p>\n

But long before the peloton arrives there for the finale of the 114th edition of the Tour \u2013 and even before it reaches the high mountains \u2013 there will be plenty of opportunities for cycling\u2019s renowned puncheurs to take centre stage in the first part of the race.<\/p>\n

\u201cWales is Li\u00e8ge-Bastogne-Li\u00e8ge,\u201d Tour director Christian Prudhomme said about the third stage in 2027, in reference to the famous hilly spring one-day classic. \u201cThe first 10 days are designed to keep the jerseys changing hands, the best puncheurs in the world against the overall favourites.\u201d<\/p>\n

The challenge awaiting riders in Wales on stage three. Illustration: TdF<\/p>\n

The best in both of those categories is Pogacar, but the course design aims to avoid a repeat of the 2026 edition when the Slovenian great \u2013 who will be bidding for a record sixth yellow jersey victory \u2013 held the lead almost from beginning to end. Prudhomme said he wanted \u201cto muddy the waters, to have a route which allows for anything to happen\u201d.<\/p>\n

Riders will face a windy arrival in France on the Cotentin peninsula in Normandy, with a fourth stage largely ridden along the coast. Even before the first mountain challenge on stage nine, finishing on the Grand Colombier in the Jura range, the sprinters will struggle to find too many days that favour them.<\/p>\n

The first time-trial is on stage seven and at 38km and pancake-flat, it should leave Remco Evenepoel, the Olympic and world champion in the discipline, salivating. He finished second to Pogacar in July but the early part of the 2027 edition should give him a great chance to steal a march on the Slovenian before the mountains begin. A second time-trial of 33km around Toulouse on stage 16 should again favour the Belgian.<\/p>\n

There will be no shortage of mountains, though, with 28 climbs and a total elevation gain of 53,450m, but just three summit finishes among six mountainous stages. The highest point will be the Col du Portet in the Pyrenees on stage 18, topping off at 2,215m above sea level.<\/p>\n

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But there will be no Alpe d\u2019Huez, Ventoux, Galibier or Izoard in 2027, although the Tour will take on the Tourmalet and pass through Domancy, where the world championships will be held the following month.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you want to discover other climbs, you have to accept that we don\u2019t systematically use the best-known ones,\u201d said Prudhomme. \u201cIt\u2019s the first time that we will link the Tourmalet and the Portet \u2013 two monsters \u2013 and the next day there will also be terribly steep ascents with the return of the Basque climbs Burdincurutcheta and Bagargui for the first time since 2023.\u201d<\/p>\n

Curiously, though, the 20th and penultimate stage is designed for the sprinters, meaning that the Tour should be sewn up two days before the Montmartre excitement in Paris.<\/p>\n

The 2027 Tour de France Femmes, which begins in Leeds, will be run over nine stages from 30 July to 7 August, 2027 and will include the first three stages in England, including the race\u2019s first ever team time-trial, which will pass in front of Big Ben and Buckingham Palace in London.<\/p>\n

Tour de France Femmes race director Marion Rousse confirms the 2027 route. Photograph: Billy Ceusters\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

But it is the finale on the tough Puy de D\u00f4me at the end of the race\u2019s longest stage over 170km which will be the key to the action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edinburgh will host the most northerly Tour de France start in 2027 while the Pyrenees will provide the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":942026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-942025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}