Stage 3 · Granollers → Les Angles
6 July · 195.9 kmThe first mountain stage arrived already on day three — a summit finish at the Les Angles ski station, where Tadej Pogačar won and pulled on the first yellow jersey of the mountains.
Barcelona, 4 July 2026 — Paris, 26 July 2026
The climbs of the Tour de France 2026
The 113th Tour starts in Barcelona with the hardest opening week in modern Tour history, crosses the Pyrenees, Massif Central, Vosges and Jura, and saves its biggest weapon for the final weekend: the first back-to-back Alpe d'Huez summit finishes ever raced.
≈54,000 m of climbing across 21 stages
Stage 6 · Pau → Gavarnie-Gèdre
9 July · 186.2 kmThe queen stage of the Pyrenees: about 4,100 m of climbing over the Col d'Aspin and the Col du Tourmalet before the finish near the Cirque de Gavarnie.
Stage 10 · Aurillac → Le Lioran
14 July · 166.6 kmBastille Day in the Cantal: seven categorised climbs on twisting Massif Central roads — a stage for ambushes rather than pure climbing power.
Stage 14 · Mulhouse → Le Markstein
18 July · 155.3 kmThe Vosges stage, finishing at Le Markstein — the region where the Tour's mountain story began on the Ballon d'Alsace in 1905.
Stage 15 · Champagnole → Plateau de Solaison
19 July · 183.9 kmA first-ever Tour finish on the steep Plateau de Solaison above the Arve valley, on the way into the Alps.
Stage 18 · Voiron → Orcières-Merlette
23 July · 185.2 kmThe Alpine trilogy opens with a summit finish at Orcières-Merlette, scene of Luis Ocaña's legendary 1971 raid.
Stage 19 · Gap → Alpe d'Huez
24 July · 127.9 kmA short, explosive stage to the most famous finish in cycling: the 21 hairpins of Alpe d'Huez, climbed from Bourg-d'Oisans on the classic road.
Stage 20 · Bourg-d'Oisans → Alpe d'Huez
25 July · 170.9 kmThe hardest day of the race — some 5,600 m of climbing over the Croix de Fer, Télégraphe and Galibier (the 2,642 m roof of the Tour), then over the wild Col de Sarenne into Alpe d'Huez for the second summit finish there in two days.
Col de la Croix de Fer
27.1 km · 5.8% · 1575 m
Fermo Camellini (1947) · First Tour summit leader
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Col du Télégraphe
12.3 km · 6.7% · 829 m
Emile Georget (1911) · First Tour summit leader
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Col du Galibier
18.2 km · 6.7% · 1227 m
Andy Schleck (2011) · Defining modern Tour performance
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Col de Sarenne
12.4 km · 7.3% · 898 m
Tejay van Garderen (2013) · First Tour summit leader
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Alpe d'Huez
15.3 km · 7.3% · 1115 m
Marco Pantani (1995) · Fastest known Tour-era ascent
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