Where will stage 18 of the 2026 Tour de France take place? Detailed route<\/p>\n
Stage 18 heads from Voiron into the Hautes-Alpes, with the riders facing five categorised climbs over 185.2km.<\/p>\n
The climbing begins before the 40km mark with the\u00a0C\u00f4te d’Engins, a category one ascent stretching 11.4km at an average gradient of 5.4 per cent.<\/p>\n
Continuing south-east, the peloton will tackle the\u00a0C\u00f4te de Monteynard\u00a0(Category 2 \u2013 9.7km at 5.0 per cent) before the\u00a0C\u00f4te des Terrasses\u00a0(Category 3 \u2013 3.4km at 6.6 per cent).<\/p>\n
An intermediate sprint awaits in\u00a0Corps\u00a0after 129km before the decisive final section of the stage.<\/p>\n
Following the\u00a0C\u00f4te de Saint-L\u00e9ger-les-M\u00e9l\u00e8zes\u00a0(Category 3 \u2013 2.5km at 6.9 per cent), the riders will begin the final climb to\u00a0Orci\u00e8res-Merlette\u00a0less than 4km later. The category one ascent climbs 7.1km at an average gradient of 6.7 per cent, with ramps of up to 8.2 per cent near the foot of the climb, before finishing at an altitude of 1,825m.<\/p>\n
Five categorised climbs feature along the route:<\/p>\n
C\u00f4te d’Engins\u00a0(Category 1 \u2013 11.4km at 5.4 per cent) \u2013 kilometre 36.7
\nC\u00f4te de Monteynard\u00a0(Category 2 \u2013 9.7km at 5.0 per cent) \u2013 kilometre 92.2
\nC\u00f4te des Terrasses\u00a0(Category 3 \u2013 3.4km at 6.6 per cent) \u2013 kilometre 112.8
\nC\u00f4te de Saint-L\u00e9ger-les-M\u00e9l\u00e8zes\u00a0(Category 3 \u2013 2.5km at 6.9 per cent) \u2013 kilometre 166.2
\nOrci\u00e8res-Merlette\u00a0(Category 1 \u2013 7.1km at 6.7 per cent) \u2013 kilometre 185.2<\/p>\n
The intermediate sprint comes at\u00a0Corps\u00a0after 129km.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Where will stage 18 of the 2026 Tour de France take place? Detailed route Stage 18 heads from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-554197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}