After the Grand Départ in Leeds, the peloton remains in England for three stages. For the fourth stage, the race entourage crosses the English Channel. The route then leads clockwise through France - with short detours to Belgium and Spain. A cobblestone stage around Roubaix, mountain stages in the Vosges, the Alps and the Pyrenees as well as a single individual time trial on the penultimate day of the Tour await the riders before they head to Paris for the Tour d'Honneur on the Champs-Élysées.
The stages at a glance:
StageStart/FinishDistance1. Stage (5 July):Leeds (Great Britain) - Harrogate (Great Britain)190.5 kilometres2. Stage (6 July):York (Great Britain) - Sheffield (Great Britain)201.0 kilometres3. Stage (7 July):Cambridge (Great Britain) - London (Great Britain)155.0 kilometres4. Stage (8 July):Le Touquet - Lille163.5 kilometres5. Stage (9 July):Ypres (Belgium) - Arenberg155.5 kilometres6. Stage (10 July):Arras - Reims234.5 kilometres7. Stage (11 July):Épernay - Nancy233.0 kilometres8. Stage (12 July):Tomblaine - Gérardmer161.0 kilometres9. Stage (13 July):Gérardmer - Mulhouse170.0 kilometres10. Stage (14 July):Mulhouse - La Planche des Belles Filles161.5 kilometres
Rest day (15 July)
11th stage (16 July):Besançon - Oyonnax187.5 kilometres12. Stage (17 July):Bourg-en-Bresse - Saint-Etienne185.5 kilometres13. Stage (18 July):Saint-Etienne - Chamrousse197.5 kilometres14. Stage (19 July):Grenoble - Risoul177.0 kilometres15. Stage (20 July):Tallard - Nîmes222.0 kilometres
Rest day (21 July)
16th stage (22nd July):Carcassonne - Luchon237.5 kilometres17. Stage (23 July):Saint-Gaudens - Pla d'Adet124.5 kilometres18. Stage (24 July):Pau - Hautacam145.5 kilometres19. Stage (25 July):Maubourguet - Bergerac208.5 kilometres20. Stage (26 July):Individual time trial - Bergerac - Périgueux 54.0 kilometres21. Stage (27 July):Évry - Paris137.5 kilometres
