Tour de France Stage 20 Preview: Deja Vu, It’s Alpe d’Huez Again

Le Bourg-d’Oisans to Alpe d’Huez: 170.9km/5400m 

Just in case the peloton hasn’t suffered enough, ASO’s course designers pile on 5,400m vertical meters for the Tour de France‘s “queen stage.”

The 2026 Tour’s final mountain stage strings together three of the most iconic climbs in the French Alps and serves them up on a platter of GC pain.

Things could explode early as the stage opens with the first of three HC climbs with the Croix de Fer in the opening 30km — ouch.

Then the Télégraphe and the endless climb up the HC summit at the Galibier, the highest point of the 2026 Tour at 2642m, are stacked up.

A long descent provides a brief respite before the race climbs back toward Alpe d’Huez for a second consecutive day.

This time, though, the stage arrives via the backdoor over the HC Col de Sarenne, which has only ever been used in 2013 and then as a descent.

The route rejoins the Alpe d’Huez climb on the upper reaches of the final climb, and only tackles the closing few switchbacks before the finish line.

• Start: 5:20 a.m. ET
• Est. Finish: 10:11 a.m. ET

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