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2013 Tour de France Route Announced – 100th Edition Gets Double Alpe d’Huez Ascent!

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2013 Tour de France schedule and course map details

The 2013 Tour de France race route has been announced. The course has seven flat stages, five hilly ones and five mountain stages, four of which end with summit top finishes. The highlight of those will be a double ascent of the Alpe D’Huez in Stage 18, concluding with a mountain top finish. The other summit finishes are Ax 3 Domaines, Ventoux and Annecy-Semnoz in the penultimate stage.

Ten cities will be first-time hosts, and after the Stage 1 departure, the race will stay entirely within France’s borders. One interesting point is there will be no time bonuses for intermediate sprint or climbing checkpoints, only the actual stage finish time will apply.

Total purse is €2 million, with €450,000 going to the overall winner.

Full schedule, course map and links after the break…

2013 Tour de France Schedule & Stage Distances

2013 Tour de France schedule and course map details

  • Stage 1 – June 29 – Porto-Vecchio to Bastia – 212km
  • Stage 2 -June 30 – Bastia to Ajaccio – 154km
  • Stage 3 -July 1 – Ajaccio to Calvi – 145km
  • Stage 4 -July 2 – Nice to Nice – 25km (Team TT)
  • Stage 5 -July 3 – Cagnes-sur-Mer to Marseille – 219km
  • Stage 6 -July 4 – Aix-en-Provence to Montpellier – 176km
  • Stage 7 -July 5 – Montpellier to Albi – 205km
  • Stage 8 -July 6 – Castres to Ax 3 Domaines – 194km
  • Stage 9 -July 7 – Saint-Girons to Bagn?res-de-Bigorre – 165km
  • Rest Day -July 8 – Saint-Nazaire – Loire-Atlantique
  • Stage 10 -July 9 – Saint-Gildas-des-Bois to Saint-Malo – 193km
  • Stage 11 -July 10 – Avranches to Mont-Saint-Michel – 33km (Individual TT)
  • Stage 12 -July 11 – Foug?res to Tours – 218km
  • Stage 13 -July 12 – Tours to Saint-Amand-Montrond – 173km
  • Stage 14 -July 13 – Saint-Pour?ain-sur-Sioule Lyon – 191km
  • Stage 15 -July 14 – Givors to Mont Ventoux – 242km
  • Rest Day -July 15 – Vaucluse
  • Stage 16 -July 16 – Vaison-la-Romaine to Gap – 168km
  • Stage 17 -July 17 – Embrun to Chorges – 32km (Individual TT)
  • Stage 18 -July 18 – Gap to Alpe-d’Huez – 168km
  • Stage 19 -July 19 – Bourg-d’Oisans to Le Grand-Bornand – 204km
  • Stage 20 -July 20 – Annecy to Annecy-Semnoz – 125km
  • Stage 21 -July 21 – Versailles to Paris Champs-Élysées – 118km

Want more detail? Check out the 2013 Tour de France Media Kit PDF with full stage elevation profiles and plenty of stage and event info to geek out on. Perfect bathroom reading.

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Topmounter
Topmounter
11 years ago

I was hoping for an Alpe d’Huez downhill TT.

Chris
Chris
11 years ago

“after the Stage 1 departure, the race will stay entirely within France’s borders”

The first three stages are in Monaco.

Mapmaster
Mapmaster
11 years ago

Chris – FYI First three stages are in Corsica. Corsica is a French island, actually a region of France.

Chris
Chris
11 years ago

… once again proving the geographical ignorance of folks from the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsica

silverlining
silverlining
11 years ago

Revisionist history racing at its finest! Can’t wait to see who re-wins ten years from now!

notapro
notapro
11 years ago

why does that promo poster remind me of the star wars saga?

Tommy Nickels
Tommy Nickels
11 years ago

I totally see the Star Wars thing. Not even subtle.
Helmeted guy used to be Darth Vader. There is a even guy front and center that resembles Luke.

The group is in a formation from a New Hope poster. The Darth Vader negative is from Return of the Jedi.
Cannot help but feel that’s a hidden message.

Justin!
11 years ago

@Topmounter, like a dis?!

Steve M
Steve M
11 years ago

Assuming after the wreckage of the past few weeks that there is a Tour….

grandpa
grandpa
11 years ago

Cadel will win.

DH
DH
11 years ago

I can’t wait to play Spot the Doper.

Psi Squared
Psi Squared
11 years ago

Four summit finishes, and one day they ascend Alpe d’Huez twice? Sounds good. Hopefully it wont’ be as, uhm, unexciting as this past year’s version.

When I win the lottery, I’m going to buy Corsica.

JW
JW
11 years ago

THAT POSTER ! What does the new route have to do with a well proportioned attractive woman smiling and playing with her hair??? Is this poster for real?

If it’s supposed to reference Star Wars, then shouldn’t the helmet wearer be Lance ? 😉

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