The route of the 2025 Tour de France will challenge the riders with six mountain stages, two time trials, six hilly stages, and seven sprints over the 3,320 km from Lille to Paris.

However, the teams, drivers, and Tour Caravan teams will still travel nearly this distance after the transfer, as the total distance traveled between the 21 stages will exceed 3,000 km.

Velowire, a Tour de France route rumor site, calculated the direct distance between each stage of next July's race and arrived at a figure of 3,055 km to move the Tour from town to town.

These moves include 14 trips over 100 km and four trips over 200 km, including a 537 km trip from Pontalier, the finish of stage 20, and Mantes-la-Ville, the start of stage 21. 50 The only two times the travel was less than 50 km were in stages 1 and 2, and in stages 5 and 6.

Cyclingnews checked the numbers and found the total to be slightly less than 3,038 km, but both are likely to underestimate the total kilometers traveled, given that the teams will also stop at hotels along the way.

According to Veloire's calculations using Google Maps, the total kilometers traveled is the highest ever recorded in the Tour's recent history.

Along with the last leg of travel (by train or plane for the riders), long-distance travel includes a 352 km trip before the first rest day in Toulouse and a 237 km trip from La Plagne to Nantua between stages 19 and 20.

Other long-distance moves on the route include a 200 km move from Dunkerque to Amiens between stages 3 and 4, 197 km from Chateauroux to Enzat between stages 9 and 10, and from Boulogne-sur-Mer between stages 2 and 3 to Valenciennes between stages 2 and 3, and 169 km from Boulogne-sur-Mer to Valenciennes between stages 3 and 4.