Tour de France

Dates: June 27 to July 19, 2020
Stages: 21
Grand Départ: Nice, France
Finish: Paris, France
TV coverage (UK): Eurosport, ITV4

Key info: Tour de France 2020 route | Tour de France start list | Tour de France TV guide | Past winners | Jerseys

Geraint Thomas and Egan Bernal on the final podium of the Tour de France (Photo: Yuzuru SUNADA)

The 2020 Tour de France Grand Départ will take place in Nice with two stages in late June.

The race will then spend some time in the west of the country with some tricky climbing stages, before travelling down to the first high mountain range of the race in the Pyrenees.

The 2020 Tour will then work it’s way from the east coast and through the centre of the country, before taking on climbs in the Jura, Alps and Vosges mountains, with a final time trial up to the top La Planche des Belles Filles.

The race will then take to its traditional finish in Paris along the Champs-Élysées.

Tour de France 2020 classifications

The standard classifications and jerseys will once again feature: yellow jersey for the overall classification, polka-dots for the mountains classification, green for the points classification and white for the best young rider classification.

A combativity prize will be awarded to the most aggressive rider each day, while a super-combativity prize will be awarded to a rider at the end of the Tour.

Bonus seconds will once again be distributed on the finish line with 10, six and three seconds available to each of the first three across the line on each stage.

The final jerseys podium of the 2019 Tour de France (Sunada)

Tour de France 2020 teams and riders

We’ll certainly see all the 2020 WorldTour teams at the Tour de France, though it is still unclear how many teams that will be. The organiser will still be able to invite wildcard teams to fill the remaining places.

Defending champion Egan Bernal (Team Ineos) will return alongside four-time winner Chris Froome, who will be desperate to try and win a fifth title having missed the opportunity through injury in 2019. The 2018 winner Geraint Thomas could also be part of the formidable Ineos team.

Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) will almost certainly return to try and win an eighth green jersey having taken a record seventh in 2019.

French riders will also try to finally break their 35-year duck at the race, with Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ) left with unfinished business following his abandonment on stage 19 of the most recent race.

Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-Quick-Step) has already expressed his interest in other targets next year, so won’t try for an overall result at the Tour despite leading for 14 days in 2019.

Tour de France 2020 on TV

You’ll be able to catch the race live on Eurosport, ITV and S4C – and each channel will have an evening highlights package, too.

Tour de France 2020 stages

Stage	Date	Start	Finish	Distance	Terrain
1	Sat June 27	Nice Moyen Pays	Nice	156km	Flat
2	Sun June 28	Nice Haut Pays	Nice	187km	Mountain
3	Mon June 29	Nice	Sisteron	198km	Flat
4	Tues June 30	Sisteron	Orcières-Merlette	157km	Hilly
5	Weds July 1	Gap	Privas	183km	Flat
6	Thurs July 2	Le Teil	Mount Aigoual	191km	Hilly
7	Fri July 3	Millau	Lavaur	168km	Hilly
8	Sat July 4	Cazères-sur-Garonne	Loudenvielle	140km	Mountain
9	Sun July 5	Pau	Laruns	154km	Mountain
Rest day	Mon July 6	Charente-Maritimes
10	Tues July 7	The Château d’Oleron	Saint-Martin-de-Ré	170km	Flat
11	Weds July 8	Châtelaillon-Plage	Poitiers	167km	Flat
12	Thurs July 9	Chauvigny	Sarran Corrèze	218km	Hilly
13	Fri July 10	Châtel-Guyon	Puy Mary Cantal	191km	Mountain
14	Sat July 11	Clermont-Ferrand	Lyon	197km	Flat
15	Sun July 12	Lyon	Grand Colombier	175km	Mountain
Rest day	Mon July 13	Isère
16	Tues July 14	La Tour-du-Pin	Villard-de-Lans	164km	Mountain
17	Weds July 15	Grenoble	Col de la Loze	168km	Mountain
18	Thurs July 16	Méribel	La-Roche-sur-Foron	168km	Mountain
19	Fri July 17	Bourg-en-Bresse	Champagnole	160km	Flat
20	Sat July 18	Lure	Planche de Belles Filles	36km	Time trial
21	Sun July 19	Mantes-la-Jolie	Paris (Champs-Élysées)	122km	Flat