The most important cycle races in 2025 at a glance
January
february
- 2 February: Cadel Evans Great Ocean Race (World Tour)
- 17-23 February: UAE Tour (World Tour)
March
- 1 March: Omloop Nieuwsblad (World Tour)
- 8 March: Strade Bianche (World Tour)
- 9-16 March: Paris-Nice (World Tour)
- 10-16 March: Tirreno-Adriatico (World Tour)
- 22 March: Milan-San Remo (World Tour)
- 24-30 March: Tour of Catalonia (World Tour)
- 26 March: Classic Bruges-De Panne (World Tour)
- 28 March: E3 Saxo Classic (World Tour)
- 30 March: Gent-Wevelgem (World Tour)
April
- 2 April: Across Flanders (World Tour)
- 6 April: Tour of Flanders (World Tour)
- 7-12 April: Tour of the Basque Country (World Tour)
- 13 April: Paris-Roubaix (World Tour)
- 20 April: Amstel Gold Race (World Tour)
- 23 April: Fleche Wallonne (World Tour)
- 27 April: Liège-Bastogne-Liège (World Tour)
- 29 April - 04 May: Tour de Romandie (World Tour)
May
- 1 May: Eschborn-Frankfurt (World Tour)
- 9 May - 1 June: Giro d'Italia (World Tour)
June
- 1 June: Around Cologne (Europe Tour)
- 8-15 June: Criterium du Dauphine (World Tour)
- 15-22 June: Tour de Suisse (World Tour)
- 22 June: Copenhagen Sprint
July
- 5-25 July: Tour de France (World Tour)
August
- 2 August: Clasica San Sebastian (World Tour)
- 04-10 August: Tour of Poland (World Tour)
- 17 August: Cyclassics Hamburg (World Tour)
- 20 August-24 August: Renewi Tour (World Tour)
- 23 August to 14 September: Vuelta a Espana (World Tour)
- 20-24 August: Germany Tour (Pro Series)
- 31 August: Bretagne Classic - Ouest-France (World Tour)
September
- 12 September: Grand Prix Cycliste de Quebec (World Tour)
- 14 September: Grand Prix Cycliste de Montreal (World Tour)
- 21-28 September: World Cycling Championships in Kigali (Rwanda)
october
- 3 October: Sparkassen Münsterland Giro
- 11 October: Tour of Lombardy (World Tour)
- 14-19 October: Tour of Guangxi (World Tour)
UCI World Tour 2025 - kicks off in January, ends in October
The 2025 road cycling season starts at the end of January with the first top event, the Tour Down Under in Australia. The Tour of Guangxi in China then awaits the riders again in mid-October. In 2025, 36 races will be part of the UCI World Tour, the premier league of cycling races. The one-day race in Copenhagen in June is a new addition to the calendar.
From a German perspective, Eschborn-Frankfurt and the Cyclassics in Hamburg are once again part of the World Tour. While the date of Eschborn-Frankfurt will remain on 1 May, the Cyclassics will move back from 8 September to 17 August.
As there will be no Olympic Games like in 2024, the Tour de France will start a week later again, on 5 July. After the detour to Nice in 2024 due to the 2024 Olympics, the most important cycling race in the world will finish as usual in Paris on 25 July in 2025.
The classics in the 2025 cycling racing calendar
The period from 1 March (Omloop Nieuwsblad) to 27 April (Liège-Bastogne-Liège) should be marked in bold in the calendar for fans of the Flemish and Walloon classics. The traditional highlights await with the Tour of Flanders (6 April), Paris-Roubaix (13 April), Amstel Gold Race (20 April), Fleche Wallonne (23 April) and finally Liège-Bastogne-Liège. Before that, the first of a total of five cycling monuments, Milan-San Remo, is on the programme on 22 March. The last of these is, as always, the Tour of Lombardy on 11 October. Shortly before that, cycling's top stars will compete at the World Cycling Championships in Kigali, Rwanda. From 21 to 28 September, a road world championship will take place there for the first time on African soil.
Cycling highlights in Germany 2025
Other race highlights in addition to Eschborn-Frankfurt and the Hamburg Cyclassics on German soil are Rund um Köln, which is part of the Europe Tour, on 1 June, the Deutschland Tour (20-24 August) and the Münsterland Giro, which traditionally takes place on 3 October.
Reform of the UCI World Tour 2026?
In 2026, there could be major upheavals in the cycling calendar - should the UCI implement its plans. Overlapping World Tour races, such as those that now take place in August, would then probably be history. UCI President David Lappartient had commented in detail on possible changes to the race calendar from 2026 at the beginning of 2024.
