The race maps for both the men’s and women’s Tours were released Thursday and promise our squads many exciting chances to attack.

The action will begin with two spectacular Grand Départs in Great Britain.

The men’s race is going to get off to a flying start on July 2 in Edinburgh, Scotland, with three tough, hilly, wind-blasted stages into England and Wales, before the race crosses the English Channel into Normandy. The Tour then traverses towards the Alps in a series of tough classics-style stages, punctuated by the first of two time trials on Stage 7. This Tour, our Cannondale SuperSlices will be put to the test with more kilometers against the clock than the race has included in 15 years. A long first week concludes with a summit finish atop the Gran Colombier. The second week then starts with an ode to the 2028 world championships in the Alps with a high mountain stage from Annecy to Sallanches. There’s one more Alpine stage from Cluses to Les Saisies, before the race heads back west towards the Pyrenees. Sprinters will have to fight for their chances, as stage after hilly stage could go to breakaways. The third week starts with a 33-kilometer time trial in Toulouse. There’s then a lumpy stage to Pau, before the Tour hits the Pyrenees proper. A summit finish on the Col du Portet could decide the race for the yellow jersey. If not, there’s a terrific stage across three Basque cols to follow, before a flat sprint day and then the grand finale over Montmartre and onto the Champs-Élysées in Paris.

Five days later, the women’s Grand Départ will begin with a bang with a stage from Leeds to Manchester made for explosive climbers. Stage 2 from Manchester to Sheffield promises to be a classic through the Peak District over some of the steepest roads any peloton has ever ridden. A team time trial in London, the first TTT in Tour de France Femmes history, concludes the Grand Départ. Then, it’s off to France. From Le Touquet on the coast in northern Pas-de-Calais, the race heads south through the Massif Central over three tough stages that could go to breakaways or sprinters. Stage 7 is the first summit finish, atop La Loge des Gardes. There’s then a mountainous day with a downhill finish into Clermont-Ferrand, before the climactic final stage finishing on the famous Puy de Dôme.

Over the coming months, our riders and staff will be studying their route books, looking for the best spots to make their bids for glory.

Read their first thoughts about the routes of the 2027 Tours de France.

I think it’s going to be a really hectic start in the U.K. – really tense and stressful. It’s not like last year, where there was a really hard stage making the gaps immediately, so it’ll be tight in GC for the first week. It’s really nice to go back to Brittany, too, with the Côte de Cadoudal, which is quite mythical in France. It is such a beautiful part of the country, so that’s nice and a bit of change compared to last year. There’s the time trial in Chambord, and then we race at home again, which is really special for me – to be on the Tour on my training roads around Annecy and Les Saisies, and then again in Chambéry. It will be super nice to have family and friends on the side of the road. We’ll go over the Col du Pré again – you’ll see the same Virage Baudin as in 2025 – so that’ll be fun. And then back to the Pyrenees for the last week, which I think is going to be super hard again. I’m really excited to be at the start next year.

The first three stages in the U.K. are going to be an absolute career pinnacle for every British rider who gets to ride them. The Tour de France is the only cycling race that most British people know, so for it to be coming to the U.K. is really special.

The first two stages in particular are going to be super, super hard terrain. They cross the Peak District twice, which are the roads that I grew up training on. Not those ones specifically but that region of England is where I grew up training. That’s already something that I’m thinking about going into the offseason training.

The crowds are going to be insane. I feel like British people, we just love something that brings people together, especially sport. Everyone clubs together and gets out and is there to support even if they don’t know what they’re cheering for, but they’ll be out clapping and cheering on the roads. It’s going to be amazing.

For the Tour de France Femmes to come to the U.K. for the first time is going to be super cool. I remember when the Tour came to the U.K. in 2014; I went to watch and it was the first race I watched in real life and there were so many people out on the road that day. I was out riding my little road bike with my brother and my dad. We rode a tiny bit of the course at the beginning and the people were clapping and cheering for us and honking the cowbells and honking the horns just for us passing the course a couple of hours before the race, so the crowds are going to be unbelievable, that’s for sure.

Of course the TTT is going to be really cool, especially being the first one in the Tour de France Femmes. Then the crossing from the U.K. into France will be interesting. To do some of the roads in northern France: that’s the first time the race has visited there, so they should also be really hard and technical. Super cool. I’m already thinking about it and I’m already motivated during my offseason to get back in the saddle and train for it next year and to try and go for it!

Despite it starting in UK, for me, the 2027 men’s Tour seems very traditional. It’s a throwback Tour with big long flat time trials and quite a few stages for sprinters. There are not so many mountain top finishes. Our approach will be as it’s been for the last few years: we’ll be looking for opportunities where no one else sees them.

I’m excited, especially for the days in the U.K. The middle stages of the race are exciting for us. The TTT is challenging as a discipline itself. The course is technical – not so much a challenge of outright difficulty, but always tricky. We look forward to Stages 2, 4, 5, and 7. I think, technically, if you win Stage 2 and you have the yellow jersey and you have a good team time trial, then you can keep the jersey until the last weekend. It gives a lot of opportunities to race aggressively and go for results, so for our team, I think it’s a really interesting route. Even the last weekend, it’s hard, really hard, of course, but it’s really interesting for a lot of different riders and a lot of different race scenarios. I look forward to the Tour next year.