{"id":810760,"date":"2026-10-22T21:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T21:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/810760\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T21:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T21:28:14","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\/uk\/810760\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France 2027 routes revealed with British stages, time trials and a volcano | Tour de France"},"content":{"rendered":"

The most ambitious Grand D\u00e9part in the long history of the Tour de France<\/a> was unveiled in Paris on Thursday as the race organisers fleshed out the details of next summer\u2019s men\u2019s and women\u2019s race starts in Edinburgh and Yorkshire.<\/p>\n

Over six days of racing, Scotland, England\u2019s Lake District and Peak District, Lancashire and Yorkshire, Wales and central London will be taken over by the snaking race caravan on a route that is expected to lure millions to the roadside.<\/p>\n

Christian Prudhomme, the men\u2019s Tour director, said he expected \u201ca warm and massive welcome for the champions\u201d. \u201cFrom the start at the foot of Edinburgh Castle \u2013 the northernmost in the history of the Tour \u2013 to a team time trial in London, Great Britain offers us a symbol that further ties the two races together,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The sports minister, Stephanie Peacock, confirmed that \u00a365m has been allocated to fund the six stages and said the Tour\u2019s visit would \u201cshine a spotlight on women\u2019s cycling like never before\u201d.<\/p>\n

Christian Prudhomme at the route unveiling in Paris. Photograph: Christophe Petit-Tesson\/EPA<\/p>\n

The men\u2019s race starts in Edinburgh on 2 July and finishes in Paris on 25 July, with a final stage that maintains the tradition of racing up and over the cobbled streets of Montmartre.<\/p>\n

Paul Bush, the managing director of Grand Depart GB, has big ambitions of his own for the race. \u201cOne of my aspirations will be to turn the UK yellow next year, for two weeks, so everybody is in yellow,\u201d he said. \u201cNow that would be pretty special.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow that would beat 2014. Not that I\u2019m looking to beat 2014, because it\u2019s not a competition. But if we could encourage everybody, workplaces, communities, old age pensioners\u2019 homes, schools, everything to become yellow, I think that would really embrace the thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

In fact, the men\u2019s Tour will begin and end on cobblestones. From the Royal Mile to the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es, the peloton will cover 3,479km of racing and take in two individual time trials, three summit finishes and a potential decider in the climbs of the Pyrenees.<\/p>\n

The first British stage, from Edinburgh to Carlisle, will head through Midlothian and the Borders, while stage two, from Keswick to Liverpool, will cover 223km and take in Lancashire\u2019s Trough of Bowland before finishing on Liverpool\u2019s waterfront.<\/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

The final British stage will include eight climbs on the winding road from Welshpool to Cardiff, and is likely to be one of the hardest stages of the race.<\/p>\n

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

After the transfer across the Channel, the peloton races across central France, from Cherbourg to the Jura, for the first summit finish on the Grand Colombier, followed by mountain stages to Sallanches and Les Saisies.<\/p>\n

From the Rhone Valley, where the furnace conditions<\/a> that characterised this year\u2019s race are likely to return, the convoy heads into the C\u00e9vennes and the Tarn for finishes in Mende and Albi.<\/p>\n

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The second time trial is centred on Toulouse and comes before two brutal Pyrenean stages, the first crossing the fearsome Col du Tourmalet before a finish on the Col du Portet, and the second, to Laruns, taking in four major ascents and 4,300m of climbing.<\/p>\n

The Tour de France Femmes begins in Leeds on 30 July, 13 years after the men\u2019s race staged its Grand D\u00e9part there, with an opening stage from the Headrow to a likely sprint finish on Deansgate in Manchester.<\/p>\n

The next day\u2019s challenge, from Manchester to Sheffield, includes both Winnats and Snake Pass on a route which features almost 3,000m of climbing and which the race director, Marion Rousse, called the cornerstone of \u201cthe hardest opening in the history of the women\u2019s race\u201d.<\/p>\n

But the showpiece stage will be in central London, with an 18km team time trial, routed from Westminster to The Mall, taking in Tower Bridge, St Paul\u2019s Cathedral, Trafalgar Square and Buckingham Palace.<\/p>\n

London\u2019s mayor, Sadiq Khan, said the Tour\u2019s visit would \u201cnot only cement London\u2019s status as the undisputed capital of women\u2019s sport, but also inspire more people to take up cycling, as we build a better, greener London for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the transfer to northern France, the women\u2019s peloton heads south, via Calais, Magnanville and Bourges, to a first mountain finish at La Loge des Gardes before a penultimate mountain stage through the Auvergne to Clermont-Ferrand. The nine-day race climaxes on the steep volcanic Puy de D\u00f4me, after a stage that climbs almost 4,000m.<\/p>\n

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

Both routes were unveiled at Porte Maillot even as curfews remained in place in some parts of central Paris, including Place de la R\u00e9publique and Les Halles. The French media described the nation as sinking \u201cdeeper into crisis\u201d, but in the aftermath of the Covid pandemic and the controversies of climate change, the Tour has become well-versed in puffing out its chest in the face of adversity and threats.<\/p>\n

However, disruption, due to both civil unrest and extreme temperatures, remains possible. Race organisers ASO faced a similar situation in July 2023, when climate activists and rioting threatened the race. That year, Prudhomme said the Tour was \u201cin constant liaison with the state\u201d and would \u201cadapt if needed\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The most ambitious Grand D\u00e9part in the long history of the Tour de France was unveiled in Paris…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-810760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}