Overview
- The men’s race begins in Barcelona on 4 July with a 19.7 km team time trial, spends three days in Spain, then hits France with an uphill finish to Les Angles on stage 3.
- A two-day finale at Alpe d’Huez caps stages 19–20, including a first-ever approach via the Col de Sarenne with restricted public access and roughly 5,600 m of climbing on the penultimate day.
- The course crosses all five French massifs with summit finishes at Gavarnie-Gèdre, the steep Plateau de Solaison on stage 15, Orcières-Merlette, and two arrivals at Alpe d’Huez, before a Paris finale again featuring triple ascents of Montmartre.
- Headline figures list about 3,333 km overall and 45 km of time trials, split between the Barcelona team time trial and a 26 km Evian–Thonon individual test, with distances subject to homologation.
- The Tour de France Femmes starts in Lausanne on 1 August, includes a time trial and a summit finish on Mont Ventoux, and concludes in Nice.