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Stage 13: Aubenas > MontpellierTour de France 2027

Aubenas to Montpellier is 164 km of flat road from the Ardèche to the Mediterranean, with wind the only real danger.

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Date
16 July 2027
Distance
164 km
Location
France

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Stage 13 of the 2027 Tour de France runs 164 km from Aubenas to Montpellier on Friday, July 16, the second flat day in a row and the last one for the sprinters before the Massif Central. ASO counts about 1,500 meters of climbing.

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The route leaves the Ardèche at Aubenas, passes Largentière and Lablachère, goes through Saint-Ambroix and Alès, crosses the Cévennes foothills at Anduze and Quissac, and drops to the plain at Saint-Mathieu-de-Tréviers and Castelnau-le-Lez, on the edge of Montpellier. Its highest point is early, at Largentière, 273 meters.

Montpellier last hosted a stage finish in 2016, when Peter Sagan won stage 11 from Carcassonne. Mark Cavendish won there in 2011 and André Greipel in 2013.

ProCyclingUK flags the Mistral and the Tramontane, the two winds of the region, as a risk for the bunch, and the peloton heads into the Cévennes for the Mende stage the next morning.

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Stage 13 course and profile

Distance
164 km
Climbing
1,500 m
Highest point
273 m (Largentière)
Start altitude
179 m
Finish altitude
19 m
Elevation profile of Stage 13: Aubenas > MontpellierSimplified elevation profile over 164 km, from 179 m at the start to 19 m at the finish, with a high point of 273 m.01002003004000255075100125150kmElevation profile of Stage 13: Aubenas > MontpellierSimplified elevation profile over 164 km, from 179 m at the start to 19 m at the finish, with a high point of 273 m.0100200300400050100150km
Simplified profile drawn from the organizer's waypoint altitudes and climb figures; the road between two points is a straight line, so short rises and descents are not shown.
Route at a glance
KilometerPlaceAltitude
StartAubenas179 m
11.0Largentière273 m
27.0Lablachère248 m
56.0Saint-Ambroix141 m
76.0Alès136 m
91.5Anduze143 m
112.0Quissac96 m
133.0Saint-Mathieu-de-Tréviers113 m
157.0Castelnau-le-Lez54 m
Finish, km 164.0Montpellier19 m

Start: Aubenas

Aubenas, in the Ardèche, is the gateway to the chestnut country, and its fortified château of the 14th century now serves as the town hall. Mark Cavendish won a stage that finished in Aubenas in 2009.

Finish: Montpellier

Montpellier, the prefecture of the Hérault, is a large university city: its schools of medicine and law date from 1220, and the Opéra Comédie on the Place de la Comédie opened in 1888. It last hosted a stage finish in 2016, when Peter Sagan won from Carcassonne, and it starts stage 14 the next day.

Course figures: Organizer's profile, as reproduced by TourdeFranceParcours.fr, read 2026-10-22. Distances and altitudes may change when the route is homologated.

Stage 13 route video from the organizer

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