LONDON — The route for the 2027 Tour de France Femmes has been unveiled, featuring a Grand Départ in Great Britain, a traverse across northern and central France and a challenging finale on the Puy de Dôme. The sixth edition will run over nine stages — the same as in 2026 — from Friday, 30 July to Sunday, 7 August, with an extra day of travel built in to return to France after the opening days in the UK.
The race will start with three stages in Great Britain, opening with two hilly tests around Manchester and the Pennines before a historic first for the event. Stage 1 runs 87.5km from Leeds to Manchester with a hilly profile and flat finish, followed by Stage 2 over 154.4km from Manchester to Sheffield with a similar hilly, flat finish. Stage 3 is the race's first-ever team time trial, an 18km test in London finishing on The Mall, before the peloton returns to France via Calais.
The French leg is peppered with hills before back-to-back mountain stages in the Auvergne and Massif Central decide the yellow jersey. Stage 4 is a 123km punchy stage from Le Touquet Paris-Plage to Calais, Stage 5 is 161km from Neufchâtel-en-Bray to Magnanville with an uphill finish, and Stage 6 is a 138km flat stage from Orléans to Bourges. The finale builds with Stage 7, a 155km summit finish from Nevers to La Loge des Gardes, Stage 8, a 151km mountain stage from La Bourboule to Clermont-Ferrand, and Stage 9, a 170km mountain stage from Clermont-Ferrand to the Puy de Dôme.
Organisers have billed the Puy de Dôme as the showpiece climb of the race, the deeply historic Tour ascent that returned to the route in 2023 after a long absence. Like last year, the course is designed so practically every day could invoke general classification action, with hills and tough roads from Stage 1 and the team time trial ensuring a GC hierarchy will form before the race even returns to France.
2026 winner and world champion Demi Vollering (FDJ United-Suez) will be seeking a third title, but will face tough competition from familiar rivals including Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney (soon-to-be Lidl-Trek), Marlen Reusser (Movistar) and Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (Visma-Lease a Bike), plus up-and-coming stars Paula Blasi (soon-to-be Movistar) and Antonia Niedermaier (Canyon-SRAM). The unveiling follows early details of the Yorkshire Grand Départ to Puy de Dôme previously outlined for the 2027 edition.