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 route kicks off with a Grand Départ in Nice, a familiar stomping ground for the many pros who live in the area, including Chris Froome.

Opening with two tough, hilly stages in the south of the country, the 107th edition of the Tour will then head back up to the west of France.

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.

This year’s edition will eight mountain stages with four summit finishes, nine flat stages, three hilly stages and one TT.

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 2018 winner Geraint Thomas, who wants another clear run at the Tour.

Chris Froome also hopes to be at the start, if his recover allowed following his horrific crash suffered at the Critérium du Dauphiné last summer.

Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) will return to try and win an eighth green jersey having taken a record seventh in 2019, but will be combining the Tour with the Giro d’Italia.

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.

Romain Bardet (Ag2r La Mondiale) will be skipping the Tour this year to focus on the Giro, after a disappointing few seasons of Grand Tour racing.

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

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