The 2027 Tour de France Femmes runs nine days from July 30 to August 7, 1,156 km in all, with no rest day, no individual time trial and no Alps or Pyrenees. What it has is a team time trial in London, two English stages with climbs, and a finish on the Puy de Dôme.
Hills in the first two stages
Stage 1 is 86 km from Leeds to Manchester across the Pennines, and stage 2 is 154 km from Manchester to Sheffield with about 2,800 meters of climbing. ASO lists the first as flat and the second as hilly.
Domestique Cycling counts the Winnats Pass, 1.4 km at 12.3 percent, and Jenkin Road, 800 m at 10.8 percent, in the stage 2 finale. The men’s Tour used the Jenkin Road in 2014, when Vincenzo Nibali attacked from 2 km out to win in Sheffield. Sprinters such as Lorena Wiebes, who won the first two stages of the 2026 race, will not find the English stages as easy as the labels suggest.
The team time trial
Stage 3 is an 18 km team time trial in central London on August 1, the first in the history of the race. “The team time trial has always been one of the most exciting and spectacular formats in cycling,” race director Marion Rousse said in April.
It is the only race against the clock in 2027. The 2026 race had a 21 km individual time trial in Dijon on stage 4. A rider who is strong alone loses that chance; a team with strong riders around its leader gains one, and the gaps it makes are the first of the race.
France: three stages that look easy
Stage 4 runs 123 km from Le Touquet-Paris-Plage to Calais, stage 5 runs 161 km from Neufchâtel-en-Bray to Magnanville and stage 6 runs 138 km from Orléans to Bourges. ASO lists all three as flat. Stage 5 has about 1,940 meters of climbing, and CyclingUpToDate counts six short climbs in its last 50 km. Only stage 6, with about 820 meters of climbing, is a pure sprint.
Three days in the Massif Central
Stage 7 ends on La Loge des Gardes, a 6.7 km climb at 7.1 percent, the first summit finish. Stage 8 crosses the Col de la Croix Saint-Robert, 1,451 meters, the highest point of the race, and ends in Clermont-Ferrand. Stage 9 is 170 km from Clermont-Ferrand to the Puy de Dôme, with about 3,840 meters of climbing and the last 4 km at about 12 percent.
Demi Vollering won the 2026 race by 1 minute 18 seconds from Kasia Niewiadoma, her second title after 2023, and Pauline Ferrand-Prévot won in 2025. Niewiadoma won the Mont Ventoux stage in 2026. The 2027 route has no Ventoux, but the last stage asks for the same thing: a climber who can finish a long week.
A race with no rest day
The race has no rest day, so the team time trial in London on August 1 is followed by a Channel crossing and the start of stage 4 at Le Touquet-Paris-Plage the next morning, August 2. Time bonuses of 10, 6 and 4 seconds go to the first three at the finish of every road stage. For riders and staff the three English days are also three days of travel.
Who won the stages in 2026
In 2026 Lorena Wiebes won stages 1 and 2, Marlen Reusser won the stage 4 time trial in Dijon, and Vollering won stages 5, 8 and 9.
Why the Puy de Dôme is new for the women’s Tour
A rack railway, the Panoramique des Dômes, opened on the Puy de Dôme in 2012, and the road is closed to general traffic. Spectators were not allowed on the climb when the men’s Tour finished there in 2023.
Clermont-Ferrand welcomed the women’s race in 2023, when Lotte Kopecky won stage 1 alone, and in 2025, when a stage started there and Maeva Squiban won it in Ambert, so the city knows the race.
The men’s Tour last climbed the Puy de Dôme in 2023, when Michael Woods won after 35 years without a visit. In 1964 Jacques Anquetil and Raymond Poulidor rode side by side almost to the top. Every stage is on the 2027 Tour de France Femmes page, ASO’s route page has the official figures, and the Tour de France Femmes hub has the history of the race.