The 2026 Tour de France Femmes will once again be a Women's Only Tour featuring our professional all-female staff crew!. The Grand Départ of the fifth edition of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift will be held in Switzerland, beginning with the opening stage, a loop around Lausanne on Saturday, 1 August. Stage 2 will take the field from Aigle to Geneva.
WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR
Race Dates: 1-9 August 2026
STAGE 1 | Lausanne > Lausanne | 137km
The fifth edition of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift will hit the road in Avenue de Rhodanie, on the banks of Lake Geneva. A wide loop will then take the peloton to Lake Neuchâtel, followed by a sequence of two climbs (3.5km at 6.1% and 3.7km at 4.5%) that are likely to whittle down the field in the inbound half of the course. The stage will hug the banks of Lake Geneva, at the foot of the Lavaux Vineyard Terraces, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The course has a sting in the tail, with the final hurdle (a 2.3km ascent at 5.4%) coming shortly after the Olympic Museum and leading to the finish line in Place Saint-François, at the end of a 400-metre straight.
STAGE 2 | Aigle > Genève | 150km
The riders will roll out of downtown Aigle and race in the vicinity of to the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) headquarters and the World Cycling Centre (WCC) before charting a course for Lake Geneva via Montreux and Vevey. Over 13 kilometres, the road will rise in three stages to visit Lac de Bret and skirt Lausanne. The return trip to Geneva will go through undulating terrain, but the three climbs on the menu, the last of which comes with 35 kilometres to go, should not prevent the sprinters from duking it out opposite the famous Jet d’Eau, at the end of the home straight on Quai du Mont-Blanc.
STAGE 3 | Genève > ? | ?km
The Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift will set out from Geneva, a multiple-time Tour de France stage city (most recently in 1990) and the scene of the climactic showdown of the most recent Tour de Romandie. Course designers are spoilt for choice with stage 3. A relaxing promenade down the Rhône Valley, all the way to the Ain Plain, perhaps? A journey north-west to the Jura mountain range, whose hilly terrain is bound to keep the riders on their toes? Or maybe an expedition over the daunting Alpine passes of Haute-Savoie, just a stone’s throw away?
The answer will come in October.
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