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Famous cycling climbs

Gradient profiles for the climbs every cyclist knows: Mallorca, Spain · French Alps, France · Provence, France · South Tyrol, Italy · Pyrenees, France · Asturias, Spain · Dolomites, Italy · Savoie, France · Vosges, France · Jura, France · Massif Central, France · Salzburg / Hohe Tauern, Austria · Lombardy, Italy · Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy · Piedmont, Italy · Tenerife, Spain. Each page includes a physics-based simulator: enter your FTP and weight to estimate your time on a profile of the real road. Where we have road geometry we trust, the page also flies the climb in 3D.

Mallorca, Spain

Sa Calobra (Coll dels Reis)

The snake road — a dead-end descent you must climb back out of

9.5 km673 m7.1% avg
3D flyover12 hairpins
Mallorca, Spain

Puig Major

The longest climb on Mallorca, ending at the Monnaber tunnel

12.7 km791 m6.3% avg
Mallorca, Spain

Coll de Sóller

Hairpin ladder over the old pass road, nearly traffic-free since the tunnel opened

7.4 km427 m5.8% avg
French Alps, France

Alpe d'Huez

21 numbered hairpins — the most famous climb in Tour de France history

15.3 km1115 m7.3% avg
3D flyover19 hairpins
Provence, France

Mont Ventoux

The Giant of Provence — a brutal forest followed by the bare lunar summit

20.8 km1585 m7.6% avg
3D flyover4 hairpins
South Tyrol, Italy

Passo dello Stelvio

48 hairpins on the Prato side leading to the high-altitude pass

23.5 km1814 m7.7% avg
3D flyover47 hairpins
Pyrenees, France

Col du Tourmalet

The most-climbed pass in Tour de France history

17 km1266 m7.5% avg
3D flyover4 hairpins
French Alps, France

Col du Galibier

High-altitude giant of the Tour, usually paired with the Télégraphe

18.2 km1227 m6.7% avg
Asturias, Spain

Alto de l'Angliru

The most feared climb of the Vuelta, with ramps up to ~23%

12.4 km1248 m10.1% avg
3D flyover8 hairpins
Asturias, Spain

Lagos de Covadonga

The Vuelta's classic summit finish past the Covadonga sanctuary

10.9 km880 m8.1% avg
Pyrenees, France

Hautacam

Brutal, irregular Pyrenean slopes and dramatic Tour showdowns

13.4 km1063 m8% avg
Dolomites, Italy

Passo Giau

Uncompromising 9-10% gradient through 29 hairpins in the heart of the Dolomites

10.9 km967 m8.9% avg
Pyrenees, France

Col d'Aspin

The Tourmalet's forested neighbour — one of the Tour's most crossed passes

13.4 km794 m5.9% avg
3D flyover8 hairpins
Pyrenees, France

Col d'Aubisque

The western giant of the Pyrenees, linked to the Soulor by a cliff-carved balcony road

15.8 km1195 m7.6% avg
Pyrenees, France

Col de Peyresourde

Steady Pyrenean pass famous for the crêpe stand at its summit

13.1 km919 m7% avg
Pyrenees, France

Luz Ardiden

Dead-end ski-station finish stacked with hairpins above Luz-Saint-Sauveur

13.6 km1042 m7.7% avg
3D flyover24 hairpins
French Alps, France

Col de la Madeleine

Nearly 20 km at 8% linking the Maurienne and Tarentaise valleys

19.3 km1514 m7.9% avg
Savoie, France

Col de la Loze

Irregular ramps on the car-free upper cycle road

22 km1696 m7.7% avg
French Alps, France

Col d'Izoard

The lunar Casse Déserte — the most theatrical summit scenery in the Alps

30.4 km1410 m4.6% avg
French Alps, France

Col de la Croix de Fer

A 27 km epic with descents mid-climb that wreck any steady rhythm

27.1 km1575 m5.8% avg
3D flyover21 hairpins
French Alps, France

Col du Télégraphe

The Galibier's forested first act — steady 7% all the way

12.3 km829 m6.7% avg
3D flyover11 hairpins
French Alps, France

Col de Sarenne

The wild back door to Alpe d'Huez — narrow, raw and nearly traffic-free

12.4 km898 m7.3% avg
Vosges, France

Ballon d'Alsace

The first great climb in Tour de France history (1905)

8.6 km590 m6.9% avg
French Alps, France

Col de Joux Plane

Short, savage and irregular — the climb that has cracked Tour champions

12 km971 m8.1% avg
Pyrenees, France

Plateau de Beille

The Ariège's relentless summit finish — a Tour-winner's proving ground

16.1 km1249 m7.8% avg
3D flyover14 hairpins
Jura, France

Grand Colombier

The Jura's monster — lacets above the Rhône and double-digit ramps

16.6 km1198 m7.2% avg
Vosges, France

La Planche des Belles Filles

Short, brutal Vosges wall that has decided multiple modern Tours

5.9 km500 m8.5% avg
French Alps, France

Col de l'Iseran

The highest paved pass in the Alps — 2,770 m of thin air

13.1 km963 m7.4% avg
French Alps, France

Col de la Bonette

The highest through-road in France, looping around a lunar summit at 2,802 m

22 km1488 m6.8% avg
3D flyover33 hairpins
Pyrenees, France

Col de Portet

The modern Tour's hardest Pyrenean finish — 16 km averaging near 9%

16 km1392 m8.7% avg
3D flyover18 hairpins
Pyrenees, France

Pla d'Adet

Steep ski-station finish above Saint-Lary with a savage opening half

9.8 km851 m8.7% avg
3D flyover18 hairpins
Pyrenees, France

Superbagnères

The grand balcony above Luchon, back in the Tour after decades away

15.1 km1188 m7.9% avg
3D flyover10 hairpins
Massif Central, France

Puy de Dôme

The volcano of Anquetil and Poulidor — a spiral road with a 12% finale

13.3 km1025 m7.7% avg
3D flyover7 hairpins
Pyrenees, France

Les Angles

The Capcir ski village where the 2026 Tour threw its first mountain punch

33.8 km1150 m3.4% avg
Massif Central, France

Le Lioran (Col de Font de Cère)

The Cantal's volcano resort — modest gradients, relentless racing terrain

12.4 km329 m2.6% avg
3D flyover1 hairpins
Vosges, France

Le Markstein

The long way up to the Route des Crêtes — the Vosges' biggest sustained climb

22.4 km925 m4.1% avg
3D flyover3 hairpins
French Alps, France

Plateau de Solaison

A savage 11 km at 9%+ on a cliff-cut balcony road — the Tour's newest wall

11.8 km1024 m8.7% avg
3D flyover9 hairpins
French Alps, France

Orcières-Merlette

Scene of Ocaña's 1971 masterpiece — the day Merckx lost nine minutes

15.2 km729 m4.8% avg
French Alps, France

Col de la Colombière

Haute-Savoie classic in three acts, ending above Le Reposoir's cliffs

15.7 km1111 m7.1% avg
3D flyover5 hairpins
Salzburg / Hohe Tauern, Austria

Großglockner – Edelweißspitze

Glocknerkönig Ultra finish on the cobbled Edelweißspitze spur

28.9 km1815 m6.3% avg
3D flyover26 hairpins
Lombardy, Italy

Passo del Mortirolo

The classic Mazzo side and Marco Pantani's 1994 attack

12.5 km1312 m10.5% avg
3D flyover27 hairpins
Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy

Monte Zoncolan

The Ovaro side's sustained double-digit gradients

10.1 km1203 m11.9% avg
3D flyover16 hairpins
Piedmont, Italy

Colle delle Finestre

A relentlessly steady ascent ending with roughly eight kilometres of gravel

18.5 km1700 m9.2% avg
3D flyover33 hairpins
Tenerife, Spain

El Teide from Chío

The western road up Teide: 25 km of almost unbroken 5.5% through pine forest and lava fields to Boca Tauce

25 km1363 m5.5% avg
3D flyover
Tenerife, Spain

El Teide from El Médano

One of the longest paved ascents in Europe: sea level to the Las Cañadas plateau without a single flat kilometre of respite

53.9 km2696 m5% avg
Lombardy, Italy

Madonna del Ghisallo

The sanctuary chapel of cycling's patron saint, key climb of Il Lombardia

10.6 km552 m5.2% avg

Profiles are simplified into segments for simulation; real gradients vary metre by metre. Lengths, elevation gains and average gradients shown are derived from these simulated profiles and closely match commonly published figures for each climb.

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