Tour de France route | Grand Départ GB 2027

A three-nation innovation

Great Britain will host the Grand Départ for just the fourth time in 2027, and for the first time the world’s best cyclists will travel through Scotland, England and Wales.

From a spectacular start in Edinburgh the peloton will travel through England before taking on Wales in the final stage of the British leg.

Stage 1

From Edinburgh the opening stage will head through Midlothian and the Scottish Borders, tackling the day’s sole king of the mountains climb on the Côte de Melrose amidst the Eildon Hills. Tracing the Scottish / English border along Liddesdale, the route briefly dips into Dumfries & Galloway before crossing into Cumberland, where the opening stage finish awaits in Carlisle, outside the city's medieval castle.

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Stage 2

The second stage will begin in Keswick in the heart of the Lake District National Park, heading south alongside Thirlmere, Grasmere, Rydal Water and Windermere and skirting the Morecambe Bay coastline, before heading to the Lancashire fells via Lancaster and the Côte de Jubilee Tower.

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Stage 3

The third and final day of the Tour de France 2027 Grand Départ will take place in Wales, for a challenging leg south from Welshpool in Powys to the finish in Cardiff.

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Key Dates

Friday, 2 July - STAGE 1

Edinburgh > Carlisle • 184km The world's greatest bike race comes to Scotland for the first time as the peloton begins an epic weekend of racing.

Saturday, 3 July - STAGE 2

Keswick > Liverpool • 223km The second stage will see the world's best racing south through Cumbria and ending with a spectacular finishing in Liverpool city centre.

Sunday, 4 July - STAGE 3

Welshpool > Cardiff • 223km More history will be made on the final weekend of the Tour de France's British leg, with the peloton visiting Wales for the first time.

Great Britain and the Tour de France

Crossing the channel for the first time in a generation

The Tour first visited Great Britain in 1974 with a single circuit stage in Plymouth before a return in 1994 to take in Brighton and Portsmouth.

In the 21^st century the race ventured further in-land, firstly to London in 2007, for the first British Grand Départ, and then Yorkshire in 2014. A long-standing relationship is renewed by exploring the three nations that comprise Great Britain in the most unmissable edition yet.

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