Stage 9 of the 2027 Tour de France runs 162 km from Villars-les-Dombes to the Grand Colombier on Sunday, July 11, the first mountain stage and the first summit finish of the race. ASO counts about 3,750 meters of climbing.
The climbs come in sequence: the Col du Berthiand (6.3 km at 7.5 percent), the Col de Richemond (7.7 km at 6 percent) and then the final climb, 17.4 km at 7.1 percent, to a finish at about 1,500 meters.
The Tour first climbed the Grand Colombier in 2012, when Thomas Voeckler led over the top on his way to winning stage 10. It became a summit finish in 2020, when Tadej Pogačar won stage 15 from Lyon ahead of Primož Roglič, who kept the yellow jersey, and again in 2023, when Michał Kwiatkowski won stage 13 with Pogačar third, four seconds ahead of Jonas Vingegaard.
The Chambord time trial is two days behind, so any gaps it made now meet the first real climbing of the race. The second rest day follows on Monday, July 12, in Haute-Savoie.