Tour de France rescheduled, will be run in September
Wednesday, April 15, 2020

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2020 Tour de France rescheduled to run August 29 - September 20

We all knew this was coming and today the Tour organization has made it official. Because of the Coronavirus Pandemic, the 2020 Tour de France will start August 29 and finish in Paris on September 21. So far, the World Championships are still scheduled to run September 20 - 27.

This means the Vuelta and Giro will be held after the Worlds.

The 2020 Tour route remains unchanged, just the dates are different.

Here is our 2020 Tour de France page.

Here is the official Tour map. The route remains unchanged. A revised map showing different dates has not yet been released.

Here's the organizer's statement regarding the schedule change:

Tour de France 2020: 29th August to 20th September

Following the President’s address on Monday evening, where large-scale events were banned in France until mid-July as a part of the fight against the spread of COVID-19, the organisers of the Tour de France, in agreement with the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), have decided to postpone the Tour de France to Saturday 29th August to Sunday 20th September 2020.

Initially scheduled to take place from the 27th June to the 19th July, the Tour de France will follow the same route, with no changes, from Nice to Paris. Over the last few weeks, there has been constant communication between riders, teams, the organisers as well as other relevant third parties all with the support of the UCI, who are responsible for arranging a new global cycling schedule, in which the Tour de France takes pride of place.

The organisers of the Tour de France are in regular contact with and have reached agreement with all of the different parties involved, from the local communities to the public authorities.

The women’s event, La Course by le Tour de France avec FDJ, which was initially scheduled to take place on the 19th July on the Champs Elysées, will also be postponed to a date that is still to be determined, but it will take place during the Tour de France 2020. Equally, the 30th edition of the Etape du Tour cyclosportive, originally schedule to take place on the 5th July, will be postponed to a date yet to be determined.

We would like to thank all of cycling’s stakeholders, the Tour de France’s partners, its broadcasters as well as all of the local authorities for their reactivity and their support. We all hope that the 2020 Tour de France will help to turn the page on the difficult period that we are currently experiencing

Here is the revised race schedule:

STAGE 1	29-Aug	156 KM	NICE MOYEN PAYS > NICE
STAGE 2	30-Aug	187 KM	NICE HAUT PAYS > NICE
STAGE 3	31-Aug	198 KM	NICE > SISTERON
STAGE 4	1-Sep	157 KM	SISTERON > ORCIÈRES-MERLETTE
STAGE 5	2-Sep	183 KM	GAP > PRIVAS
STAGE 6	3-Sep	191 KM	LE TEIL > MONT AIGOUAL
STAGE 7	4-Sep	168 KM	MILLAU > LAVAUR
STAGE 8	5-Sep	140 KM	CAZÈRES-SUR-GARONNE > LOUDENVIELLE
STAGE 9	6-Sep	154 KM	PAU > LARUNS
REST	7-Sep		LA CHARENTE-MARITIME
STAGE 10	8-Sep	170 KM	ÎLE D'OLÉRON LE CHÂTEAU-D'OLÉRON > ÎLE DE RÉ SAINT-MARTIN-DE-RÉ
STAGE 11	9-Sep	167 KM	CHÂTELAILLON-PLAGE > POITIERS
STAGE 12	10-Sep	218 KM	CHAUVIGNY > SARRAN CORRÈZE
STAGE 13	11-Sep	191 KM	CHÂTEL-GUYON > PUY MARY CANTAL
STAGE 14	12-Sep	197 KM	CLERMONT-FERRAND > LYON
STAGE 15	13-Sep	175 KM	LYON > GRAND COLOMBIER
REST	14-Sep		ISÈRE
STAGE 16	15-Sep	164 KM	LA TOUR-DU-PIN > VILLARD-DE-LANS
STAGE 17	16-Sep	168 KM	GRENOBLE > MÉRIBEL COL DE LA LOZE
STAGE 18	17-Sep	168 KM	MÉRIBEL > LA ROCHE-SUR-FORON
STAGE 19	18-Sep	160 KM	BOURG-EN-BRESSE > CHAMPAGNOLE
STAGE 20	19-Sep	36 KM	LURE > LA PLANCHE DES BELLES FILLES
STAGE 21	20-Sep	122 KM	MANTES-LA-JOLIE > PARIS CHAMPS-ÉLYSÉES

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