2026 Tour de France Route Includes Two Alpe d’Huez Finishes and Barcelona Start

The 2026 Tour de France will start in Barcelona on July 4 and finish in Paris after 21 stages. The route features five summit finishes, seven flat stages, four hilly stages, one individual time trial, and one team time trial. The first week includes the opening team time trial, three Pyrenees stages, and several flat and hilly days.

After a rest day in Cantal, the second week moves through the Massif Central and the Vosges before returning to the Alps.

Stage 1 is a 19.6 km team time trial in Barcelona that includes two short climbs. Stage 2 runs 168.5 km from Tarragona back to Barcelona with three circuits of the Côte du Château de Montjuïc. Stage 3 crosses into France and finishes at Les Angles after four categorized climbs.

Stages 4 and 5 offer hilly and flat terrain respectively before the race returns to the Pyrenees on Stage 6, which ends at Gavarnie-Gèdre after the Col du Tourmalet. Stages 7 and 8 are flat stages suited to sprinters. Stage 9 is hilly through the Massif Central.

After the rest day, Stage 10 climbs nearly 4,000 m with seven categorized ascents and finishes at Le Lioran. Stages 11 and 12 are flat transitional days. Stage 13, the longest at 205.8 km, crosses the Vosges and ends with a descent from the Ballon d’Alsace.

Stage 14 features four classified climbs and finishes at Le Markstein Fellering. Stage 15 continues in the Jura mountains and finishes at Plateau de Solaison. The final mountain stages include two consecutive finishes on Alpe d’Huez before the traditional Paris finale with three laps of the Montmartre circuit.

The race returns to the Pyrenees for the final time on Stage 6 and visits three mountain ranges overall: the Pyrenees, the Massif Central, and the Vosges.