The fourth edition of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift will be held from July 26, 2025, to August 3, 2025.
Held for the first time over nine days, up from a previous seven-day stage race, the route for elite female riders in 2025 will cut a diagonal line across France.
The wide diagonal route stretches across the map of France, with over 1,000 kilometres separating Brest from the Alpine resort of Châtel as the crow flies, involving a total of 1,165 kilometres of pedalling for the riders.
The peloton kicks off its Brittany leg in the Morbihan, with a stage between Vannes and Plumelec; the punchers who came out on top at the côte de Cadoudal in the Grand Prix du Morbihan will be familiar with this stage’s finish.
At the following day in Finistère, racers will need explosive power if they want to get ahead in Quimper, on the climb where Peter Sagan won in 2018.
The 2025 route then visits sprinting country in Angers (stage 3) and Poitiers (stage 4), before offering up increasingly demanding terrain in the Creuse on the way to Guéret (stage 5) and upping the ante further in the Puy-de-Dôme department as riders’ legs are tested on the Col du Béal and Col du Chansert climbs (stage 6).
After the Massif Central, a gradual approach to the Alps between Bourg-en-Bresse and Chambéry (stage 7) may well offer the chance for a breakaway, as long as riders are able to get over the Col du Granier without letting up.
A battle between the favourites for the Yellow Jersey on the Queen Stage is a realistic prospect, with a Tour first finish on the Col de la Madeleine (stage 8), 2,000 metres above sea level and at the end of a savage 18.6km climb with an average gradient of 8.1%.
In the final 124 kilometres between Praz-sur-Arly and Châtel (stage 9), the champion in yellow will have to hold off her rivals as she climbs the Col de Joux-Plane, keeping composure plunging down to Morzine before entering the final stretch.
Offering up a challenge to amateur riders, in parallel with the elite Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift race, on August 2, 2025, thousands of cyclists will be able to take part in the first edition of L’Étape du Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift.
This gran fondo is modelled on L’Étape du Tour de France, the 33rd edition of which will be held on July 20, 2025, between Albertville and La Plagne.
