Event guide · Jul 30–Aug 7, 2027
The 2027 Tour de France Femmes ends on the Puy de Dôme: 170 km, about 3,840 meters of climbing and the last 4 km at about 12 percent.
Stage 9 of the 2027 Tour de France Femmes runs 170 km from Clermont-Ferrand to the Puy de Dôme on Saturday, August 7, the longest stage of the race, with about 3,840 meters of climbing, the most of any day. The Tour finishes on the summit.
The official race account called it the longest and toughest stage of the race, with the finish at the summit. The last 4 km of the climb average about 12 percent.
The Puy de Dôme is a volcano that the men’s Tour has climbed several times; in 1964 Jacques Anquetil and Raymond Poulidor rode side by side almost to the top. Michael Woods won the men’s stage there in 2023, after 35 years without a Tour visit.
It is the first time the women’s Tour has finished on the volcano. Demi Vollering won the 2026 race by 1 minute 18 seconds from Kasia Niewiadoma, and Pauline Ferrand-Prévot won in 2025. Whoever leads going into the final stage has to defend it on a climb the women’s race has never used.
ASO has not published a kilometer-by-kilometer profile for the women's race yet, so this stage shows the climbs reported so far. The stage has about 3,840 meters of climbing.
| # | Climb | Position | Length | Average | Altitude |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Côte de Ternant | 5.1 km | 6.3 % | ||
| 2 | Côte de la Mouteyre | 5.3 km | 6.2 % | ||
| 3 | Puy de Dôme Finish; the last 4 km average about 12 %. The summit is at 1,465 m. | km 170.0 finish | 11.3 km | 7.8 % | 1,415 m |
Places on the route, in order: Clermont-Ferrand, Sioule gorges, Puy de Dôme.
Clermont-Ferrand is built of black lava stone at the foot of the Chaîne des Puys and is the home of Michelin. Lotte Kopecky won stage 1 of the 2023 Tour de France Femmes on a loop around the city, and the 2025 race started a stage here, to Ambert, which Maeva Squiban won.
The Puy de Dôme is a lava dome above Clermont-Ferrand, 1,465 meters high, with a rack railway, the Panoramique des Dômes, since 2012. The men's Tour has finished on it several times, most recently in 2023, when Michael Woods won. In 1964 Jacques Anquetil and Raymond Poulidor rode shoulder to shoulder, and Anquetil kept the yellow jersey by 14 seconds. The women's Tour has never finished here.
Course figures: Climb figures from ProCyclingUK, Domestique Cycling and CyclingUpToDate, read 2026-10-22. Distances and altitudes may change when the route is homologated.
