Tour de France Femmes 2027 route revealed: Puy de Dome finale and historic London team time trial await
Cycling
The Tour de France Femmes will finish on the Puy de Dome in 2027, with three demanding days in the Massif Central following a British opening featuring the race’s first team time trial. Revealed in Paris by race director Marion Rousse, the nine-stage route runs from Leeds on 30 July to the summit of the famous volcano on 7 August.
An 18km team time trial through London on stage three gives the overall contenders an early opportunity to establish an advantage before the climbing intensifies in France. La Loge des Gardes and a six-climb stage to Clermont-Ferrand precede the final summit finish, concentrating the toughest mountain tests into the closing three days.
Demi Vollering will have the opportunity to pursue a third consecutive title. The route announced by organisers ASO also includes two hilly opening stages in Britain, exposed roads around Calais and a flatter run into Bourges for the sprinters.
🤩There you go: here is the route of the #TDFF2027 avec Zwift ! 🤩 Nous y sommes : voici le parcours officiel du #TDFF2027 avec Zwift ! #WatchTheFemmes https://t.co/NAtrL7BKRR
— Le Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift (@LeTourFemmes) October 22, 2026
Puy de Dome crowns three-day mountain showdown
The first summit finish comes on stage seven at La Loge des Gardes. Starting in Nevers, the peloton will tackle the Cote du Point du Jour, measuring 2.1km at 8.6%, before the finishing ascent of 6.7km at an average of 7.1%.
Stage eight then packs six climbs into the journey to Clermont-Ferrand. The city returns after hosting the Grand Depart in 2023 and featuring again in 2025, this time welcoming the peloton on the eve of the decisive ascent.
The Puy de Dome follows on stage nine, giving the race a final-day summit finish. After previous editions visited La Super Planche des Belles Filles and Mont Ventoux, the Auvergne volcano becomes the latest landmark climb to feature in the Tour de France Femmes.
Vollering is the defending Tour champion
London team time trial follows demanding British start
England hosts the Grand Depart for the first time, following previous foreign starts in the Netherlands in 2024 and Switzerland in 2026.
Leeds–Manchester opens the race with three climbs and a contest for the first yellow jersey that could bring both the puncheurs and surviving sprinters into play. The second stage, from Manchester to Sheffield, contains seven difficulties, including an 800-metre climb averaging almost 11% just six kilometres from the finish.
London then hosts the first team time trial in the history of the modern Tour de France Femmes. The 18km course passes Westminster, St Paul’s Cathedral, Trafalgar Square and Buckingham Palace, completing the three-stage British visit before the peloton crosses to France.
Read also
Calais exposure and sharp climbs before Bourges sprint chance
The first French stage runs from Le Touquet-Paris-Plage to Calais, with an undulating route and a finale around the exposed roads of Cap Blanc-Nez. The area provided the setting for Wout van Aert’s solo victory in yellow at the 2022 men’s Tour.
Stage five offers another opening for aggressive racing, with repeated climbs across the 161km route into Magnanville and a demanding finish. Together, those two stages give breakaway riders and puncheurs further opportunities after the British opening.
The flatter sixth stage from Orleans to Bourges provides the clearest prospect of a conventional bunch sprint on French soil. It is the final stage before the route turns towards the Massif Central, with all three remaining days containing substantial climbing.
Kieran WoodDeputy Editor-in-Chief
Kieran Wood is a sports journalist based in Wales and has been active in journalism since 2022. He regularly contributes to DartsNews.com and CyclingUpToDate.com, where he covers professional cycling and darts. In cycling, his work includes liveblogs from major races, including the Tour de France, the Giro d’Italia, and La Vuelta a España, alongside race reports and analysis. He has also conducted interviews with professional riders.
His reporting spans the full racing calendar, from one-day classics to stage races, with a focus on accurate, real-time coverage and clear contextual analysis. For statistics, results, and historical context, he regularly uses resources such as ProCyclingStats. To support reporting on rider activity and training context where relevant, he also references Strava.
In his work, Kieran places strong emphasis on careful sourcing, editorial accuracy, and updating articles as new, verified information becomes available.
claps 0visitors 0
Just in
Popular news
Latest comments
- Pog can be beat, so, yeh 👍
leedorney22-10-2026 - absolutely iconic face/effortwrsty22-10-2026
- EF makes some pretty good signings. Tao and Sosa could be decent replacements for Carapazmij22-10-2026
- gravel is such a great discipline. I hope it gets bigger from a media standpoint. looking at old Tour de France stages, they were basically gravel before it was called gravelmij22-10-2026
- This is good for the sport ? Spreading of talent around the peloton.
Davide22-10-2026 - Im all in with you Wally. Good Luck.Davide22-10-2026
- No it’s not, what utter drivel. How do you know he wasn’t presented the option to stay with a renegotiated contract. I’m sure if he’d not gotten a better deal elsewhere he would even have considered accepting. It’s not like they would have told him to ride for free like Cavendish had to.Jumpyjohn21-10-2026
- It’s been a long time since any real Special accomplishments.Jumpyjohn21-10-2026
- It's nice to know that (some of) this article is not AI generated... igneous is autocorrected Ineos
Rafionain-Glas21-10-2026 - What are they doing nobody knows.abstractengineer21-10-2026
Loading
Write a comment