2025 Tour de France route set to favour mountain men

The route for the 2025 Tour de France will set the stage for another anticipated battle between reigning champion Tadej Pogacar and rival Jonas Vingegaard with Mont Ventoux among a series of summit finishes.

The route for the 112th edition of the Tour – the first in five years to take place entirely within France's borders – includes six mountain top finishes and two time trials, one of them in the Pyrenees.

At a ceremony in Paris, organisers ASO also revealed the most difficult yet route for the Tour de France Femmes, expanded to a nine-day race that includes four mountain stages.

The men’s race will take place between 5 July and 27 July, with the women’s race starting on 26 July before the winner is crowned on 3 August.

Lille will host the Grand Depart of the men’s race with a series of hilly stages, including a stage five time trial. Following an anti-clockwise route around France, the peloton will head towards the Pyrenees via the Massif Central.