Tour de France 2026 routes unveiled for men and women

Race organisers unveiled the routes for the 2026 editions of the men’s and women’s Tour de France on Thursday in Paris, setting a July 4 start in Barcelona for the men’s event and an early August nine‑day window for the women’s race that opens in Switzerland. The men’s race will run 21 stages to a July 25 finish in Paris, while the Tour de France Femmes will cover nine stages between August 1 and August 9 and conclude in Nice.

The 2026 men’s route opens with a team time trial through the streets of Barcelona, the first Tour opening TTT since 1971, and moves quickly into hard climbing. A summit finish on stage three at Les Angles in the Pyrenees can shape the general classification early, and the itinerary includes visits to the Massif Central, the Vosges and a blockbuster Alpine finale. The closing weekend features consecutive summit finishes on Alpe d’Huez on stages 19 and 20, preceded by a stage that climbs the Plateau de Solaison for the first time in Tour history and by a single individual time trial on stage 16, a 26 kilometre test from Évian‑les‑Bains to Thonon‑les‑Bains that includes an uphill section. The race will repeat the Montmartre ascent on the final day in Paris.