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Alpe d’Huez, French AlpsFranceHors Catégorie

Alpe d’Huez

Twenty one hairpins, a balcony road above Bourg d’Oisans and a name that every cyclist already knows before they ever ride it. Alpe d’Huez is not the longest climb in the Alps, but it might be the one that feels most like stepping onto cycling’s main stage.

French Alps
Alto de Arrate, Basque CountrySpainVery Challenging

Alto de Arrate

Alto de Arrate is a Basque climb with two distinct personalities. From Eibar, the south side is short and steep. From Etxebarria, the north side is longer and more measured.

Basque Country
Alto de Hazallanas, AndalusiaSpainHors Catégorie

Alto de Hazallanas

Alto de Hazallanas is short compared with Pico Veleta, but much more violent. From Güéjar Sierra, it delivers steep gradients, sharp ramps and a very different kind of Andalusian suffering.

Andalusia
Alto de Jaizkibel, Basque CountrySpainChallenging

Alto de Jaizkibel

Alto de Jaizkibel is the Basque climb that mixes sea air, green hills and race history into one steady effort. It is not brutally steep, but it has enough length and character to stay with you.

Basque Country
Andazarrate, Basque CountrySpainChallenging

Andazarrate

Andazarrate is a proper Basque rhythm climb with enough steep sections to keep things honest. From Asteasu, it rises through the kind of green, rolling landscape that defines the region.

Basque Country
Ballon d’Alsace from Lepuix, VosgesFranceVery Challenging

Ballon d’Alsace from Lepuix

Ballon d’Alsace is one of the classic Vosges climbs. From Lepuix, it is long, steady and more about sustained rhythm than sudden brutality.

Vosges
Ballon d’Alsace from Saint Maurice sur Moselle, VosgesFranceVery Challenging

Ballon d’Alsace from Saint Maurice sur Moselle

Ballon d’Alsace from Saint Maurice sur Moselle is a shorter, steeper side of a classic Vosges climb. It has enough gradient to feel more serious than its distance suggests.

Vosges
Cap de Formentor, MallorcaSpainChallenging

Cap de Formentor

Cap de Formentor is Mallorca at its most cinematic. From Port de Pollença, the road rolls, climbs and twists towards the lighthouse, with sea views that make every kilometre feel like part of the reason you came.

Mallorca
Carrefour de l’Arbre, RoubaixFranceVery Challenging

Carrefour de l’Arbre

Carrefour de l’Arbre is one of the final great tests of Paris Roubaix. At just over two kilometres, this 5 star sector is where tired legs and rough stones meet at exactly the wrong time.

Roubaix
Col d’Aspin from Arreau, PyreneesFranceVery Challenging

Col d’Aspin from Arreau

Col d’Aspin from Arreau is a classic Pyrenean climb with a steady profile and enough history in the region to feel instantly familiar.

Pyrenees
Col d’Èze, Côte d’AzurFranceChallenging

Col d’Èze

Col d’Èze is the classic climb out of Nice. It is close to the sea, close to the city and just hard enough to remind you that the Côte d’Azur is not only about café stops and coastal roads.

Côte d’Azur
Col de Coudons, PyreneesFranceModerate

Col de Coudons

Col de Coudons is a long, steady Pyrenean climb from the northeast. It is moderate on paper, but its length gives it real substance.

Pyrenees
Col de la Bonette, French AlpsFranceHors Catégorie

Col de la Bonette

Col de la Bonette is all about altitude. With the pass at 2,715 metres and the Cime de la Bonette road reaching 2,802 metres, this is one of the great high road experiences of the French Alps.

French Alps
Col de la Croix de Fer from Allemond, French AlpsFranceHors Catégorie

Col de la Croix de Fer from Allemond

Col de la Croix de Fer from Allemond is a long Alpine climb with serious scale. It is not brutally steep throughout, but twenty four kilometres uphill is never casual.

French Alps
Col de la Madone, Côte d’AzurFranceVery Challenging

Col de la Madone

Col de la Madone is the quieter, more serious test above Menton. It starts near the coast, but the climb quickly becomes a proper mountain effort.

Côte d’Azur
Col de Montségur, PyreneesFranceChallenging

Col de Montségur

Col de Montségur from Bélesta is compact, steep enough to matter and full of Pyrenean character. It is a climb that rewards control more than noise.

Pyrenees
Col de Portet, PyreneesFranceHors Catégorie

Col de Portet

Col de Portet is a modern Pyrenean monster. From Saint Lary Soulan, it climbs for 16.4 kilometres at an average that leaves very little room for pretending this will be comfortable.

Pyrenees
Col de Sarenne, French AlpsFranceHors Catégorie

Col de Sarenne

Col de Sarenne is the quieter, sharper route into the Alpe d’Huez story. From the southeastern flank, it gives the final weekend of the Tour de France 2026 a different kind of Alpine drama.

French Alps
Col du Calvaire, PyreneesFranceModerate

Col du Calvaire

Col du Calvaire is a steady borderland climb on the road towards Les Angles. It is not savage, but it helps turn Stage 3 into a real mountain day.

Pyrenees
Col du Galibier from Saint Michel de Maurienne, French AlpsFranceHors Catégorie

Col du Galibier from Saint Michel de Maurienne

From Saint Michel de Maurienne, the Galibier is not one climb. It is a full Alpine commitment, including the Télégraphe, a brief reset and then the long road into high mountain territory.

French Alps
Col du Galibier from Valloire, French AlpsFranceHors Catégorie

Col du Galibier from Valloire

Col du Galibier from Valloire is the high mountain heart of the Télégraphe Galibier sequence. It starts after the first climb has already softened the legs.

French Alps
Col du Grand Ballon, VosgesFranceVery Challenging

Col du Grand Ballon

Col du Grand Ballon is the high point of the Vosges climbing landscape. Depending on the side, it can be a steady ascent or a much more demanding mountain day.

Vosges
Col du Granon, French AlpsFranceHors Catégorie

Col du Granon

Col du Granon is a high Alpine climb with a simple message: sixteen and a half kilometres at serious gradient. It is less universally famous than Alpe d’Huez or the Galibier, but it is every bit a proper mountain test.

French Alps
Col du Haag, VosgesFranceModerate

Col du Haag

Col du Haag is a compact Vosges climb via the Route des Crêtes. It is short, steady and useful as a connector between bigger mountain moments.

Vosges
Col du Rosier, ArdennesBelgiumChallenging

Col du Rosier

Col du Rosier is one of the longer climbs in the Liège Bastogne Liège landscape. It is steadier than the famous walls, but that length makes it a real Ardennes test.

Ardennes
Col du Télégraphe, French AlpsFranceVery Challenging

Col du Télégraphe

Col du Télégraphe is the gateway to the Galibier. On its own, it is already a serious Alpine climb. As the opening act before the giant above, it becomes even more important.

French Alps
Col du Tourmalet · West Side, PyreneesFranceHors Catégorie

Col du Tourmalet · West Side

The Tourmalet is the Pyrenean giant with a long memory. From Luz Saint Sauveur, it builds patiently at first, then slowly tightens its grip as the road climbs towards one of cycling’s most storied summits.

Pyrenees
Col du Tourmalet from Sainte Marie de Campan, PyreneesFranceHors Catégorie

Col du Tourmalet from Sainte Marie de Campan

The eastern side of the Tourmalet is a Pyrenean classic in its own right. From Sainte Marie de Campan, it climbs for 17.2 kilometres and carries the same weight of history as the better known name on the summit sign.

Pyrenees
Coll de sa Batalla, MallorcaSpainChallenging

Coll de sa Batalla

Coll de sa Batalla is one of the classic stepping stones into Mallorca’s mountain roads. It is often part of the journey towards Sa Calobra, but it deserves attention as more than just the road before the famous road.

Mallorca
Collada de Toses, CataloniaSpainChallenging

Collada de Toses

Collada de Toses is one of the early mountain signals of the Tour de France 2026. From the southern Catalan valley, it climbs long enough and steep enough to move the race into a different mood.

Catalonia
Colma di Sormano from Nesso, Italian LakesItalyVery Challenging

Colma di Sormano from Nesso

Colma di Sormano is the longer way into one of Lake Como’s classic climbing areas. From Nesso, it gives you a proper mountain effort before the roads connect towards the famous Sormano landscape.

Italian Lakes
Côte de Begues, CataloniaSpainModerate

Côte de Begues

Côte de Begues is an early Tour de France 2026 test on the road into Barcelona. From the southwest, it climbs steadily enough to matter, without becoming a full mountain effort.

Catalonia
Côte de Haute Levée, ArdennesBelgiumChallenging

Côte de Haute Levée

Côte de Haute Levée is a compact Ardennes climb with a clear profile. It is not the most famous road in the region, but it has the gradient to earn its place.

Ardennes
Côte de la Redoute, ArdennesBelgiumVery Challenging

Côte de la Redoute

La Redoute is one of the most famous names in the Ardennes. It is steep, decisive and exactly the kind of climb where Liège Bastogne Liège starts to feel less like a race route and more like a warning.

Ardennes
Côte de la Roche aux Faucons, ArdennesBelgiumVery Challenging

Côte de la Roche aux Faucons

Roche aux Faucons is one of the sharp late tests of the Ardennes. It is short, steep and perfectly placed to expose tired legs.

Ardennes
Côte de Stockeu, ArdennesBelgiumVery Challenging

Côte de Stockeu

Stockeu is one of the Ardennes climbs that does not waste time being polite. It is short, steep and closely tied to the hard rhythm of Liège Bastogne Liège.

Ardennes
Côte de Wanne, ArdennesBelgiumChallenging

Côte de Wanne

Côte de Wanne is a flexible Ardennes climb with more than one profile. Depending on the version, it can be a short punch or a longer, steadier effort.

Ardennes
Côte du Château de Montjuïc, CataloniaSpainVery Challenging

Côte du Château de Montjuïc

Côte du Château de Montjuïc is short, steep and made for drama. In the briefing, it is flagged as a Tour de France 2026 climb and one of the sharpest tests of the opening weekend.

Catalonia
Eikenberg, FlandersBelgiumChallenging

Eikenberg

Eikenberg is a steady Flemish cobbled climb with enough length to find a rhythm and enough roughness to break it. It is less explosive than the famous walls, but still very much part of the classics landscape.

Flanders
Els Àngels, CataloniaSpainModerate

Els Àngels

Els Àngels is Girona’s everyday classic. It is not the hardest climb in the region, but it is the one that tells you exactly why so many riders keep coming back.

Catalonia
Ermita de Santa Creu d’Olorda, CataloniaSpainModerate

Ermita de Santa Creu d’Olorda

Ermita de Santa Creu d’Olorda is a steady Catalan climb from the Llobregat valley. It is not brutal, but it has enough length to turn a city ride into a proper effort.

Catalonia
Grand Ballon from Willer sur Thur, VosgesFranceVery Challenging

Grand Ballon from Willer sur Thur

Grand Ballon from Willer sur Thur is one of the most serious climbs in the Vosges. Long, steep and high by regional standards, it deserves more respect than many riders give it.

Vosges
Grand Colombier from Artemare, JuraFranceHors Catégorie

Grand Colombier from Artemare

The Artemare side of Grand Colombier is the steeper, more aggressive version of this Jura giant. Long distance, big elevation and a two kilometre section at 14 percent make it a serious target.

Jura
Grand Colombier from Culoz, JuraFranceHors Catégorie

Grand Colombier from Culoz

Grand Colombier from Culoz is a long, proud Jura climb with enough steep sections to keep things honest. It is less famous than the Alps, but it is not a lesser challenge.

Jura
Koppenberg, FlandersBelgiumVery Challenging

Koppenberg

The Koppenberg is one of the most feared cobbled climbs in Flanders. Six hundred metres, double digit gradients and stones that seem designed to expose bad decisions.

Flanders
La Super Planche des Belles Filles, VosgesFranceVery Challenging

La Super Planche des Belles Filles

La Super Planche des Belles Filles is short compared with the great Alpine passes, but the final gradients make it feel much bigger than the distance suggests.

Vosges
Le Salève from Cruseilles, French AlpsFranceVery Challenging

Le Salève from Cruseilles

Le Salève from Cruseilles is short, steep and direct. At eleven percent average, it has the profile of a climb that gets serious immediately.

French Alps
Les Angles, PyreneesFranceEasy

Les Angles

Les Angles is a short summit finish with a sharper bite than the distance suggests. From the valley via Lac de Matemale, it gives the stage a compact uphill ending.

Pyrenees
Madonna del Ghisallo, Italian LakesItalyVery Challenging

Madonna del Ghisallo

Madonna del Ghisallo is more than a climb above Lake Como. It is one of cycling’s spiritual places, with a road from Bellagio that leads towards one of the sport’s most meaningful chapels.

Italian Lakes
Mangart Saddle, Julian AlpsSloveniaHors Catégorie

Mangart Saddle

Mangart Saddle is Slovenia’s high road showpiece. It is steep, spectacular and rises towards the highest asphalt road in the country.

Julian Alps
Molenberg, FlandersBelgiumChallenging

Molenberg

Molenberg is a compact Flemish cobbled climb with a nasty edge. It is short, but the gradient and surface make it feel much bigger than the distance suggests.

Flanders
Mons-en-Pévèle, RoubaixFranceVery Challenging

Mons-en-Pévèle

Mons-en-Pévèle is one of the 5 star sectors of Paris Roubaix. Three kilometres of cobbles make it long enough to hurt and rough enough to remember.

Roubaix
Monte Igeldo, Basque CountrySpainVery Challenging

Monte Igeldo

Monte Igeldo is San Sebastián’s local climbing sting. It is close to the city, steep enough to count and perfectly placed for riders who want a hard effort without leaving town behind completely.

Basque Country
Montée de Gavarnie Gèdre, PyreneesFranceChallenging

Montée de Gavarnie Gèdre

Montée de Gavarnie Gèdre is a long summit finish rather than a steep wall. From Luz Saint Sauveur, it climbs gradually towards one of the most dramatic corners of the Pyrenees.

Pyrenees
Muro di Sormano, Italian LakesItalyVery Challenging

Muro di Sormano

The Muro di Sormano is short, absurdly steep and almost rude in how quickly it becomes difficult. This is one of the most infamous walls in Italian cycling.

Italian Lakes
Orcières Merlette, French AlpsFranceChallenging

Orcières Merlette

Orcières Merlette is a classic Alpine resort climb with a steady, race friendly profile. From the Drac valley, it rises for just over seven kilometres at a proper climbing gradient.

French Alps
Oude Kruisberg and Hotond, FlandersBelgiumModerate

Oude Kruisberg and Hotond

Oude Kruisberg and Hotond form one of the longer, steadier tests in the Flemish Ardennes. It is not as violent as the Paterberg or Koppenberg, but it has enough length to matter.

Flanders
Oude Kwaremont, FlandersBelgiumChallenging

Oude Kwaremont

Oude Kwaremont is one of the great names of Flemish cycling. It is not the steepest cobbled climb in the region, but it is long enough, rough enough and famous enough to feel important from the first stones.

Flanders
Pas de Peyrol, Puy Mary, Massif CentralFranceChallenging

Pas de Peyrol, Puy Mary

Pas de Peyrol is the road to Puy Mary with a sharp final character. From the Mandailles valley, it is short, steep and very different from the long Alpine climbs.

Massif Central
Passo Fedaia, DolomitesItalyVery Challenging

Passo Fedaia

Passo Fedaia is one of the Dolomites climbs that hides its cruelty behind a modest average gradient. The famous Malga Ciapela section changes the conversation completely.

Dolomites
Passo Giau from Selva di Cadore, DolomitesItalyHors Catégorie

Passo Giau from Selva di Cadore

Passo Giau is a Dolomites climb with very little small talk. From Selva di Cadore, it gives you ten kilometres of steep gradients, twenty nine hairpins and some of the most dramatic scenery in Italian cycling.

Dolomites
Passo Stelvio, Italian AlpsItalyHors Catégorie

Passo Stelvio

Passo Stelvio is one of cycling’s grand set pieces. With up to 48 hairpins and around 1,800 metres of climbing, it is not just a road over a mountain. It is a full day written in switchbacks.

Italian Alps
Paterberg, FlandersBelgiumVery Challenging

Paterberg

The Paterberg is short, steep and brutally direct. At just 360 metres, it looks tiny on a route map, but the cobbles and the gradient make it one of Flanders’ most unforgiving walls.

Flanders
Pico Veleta from Granada, AndalusiaSpainHors Catégorie

Pico Veleta from Granada

Pico Veleta is one of Europe’s biggest road cycling challenges. From Granada, it climbs for roughly forty kilometres towards thin air, rougher road and the highest asphalt road in Europe.

Andalusia
Plateau de Solaison, French AlpsFranceHors Catégorie

Plateau de Solaison

Plateau de Solaison is a brutal summit finish from the Arve valley. At nine percent average for more than eleven kilometres, it belongs firmly in the hardest category.

French Alps
Puig Major from Sóller, MallorcaSpainChallenging

Puig Major from Sóller

Puig Major is Mallorca’s big mountain effort. From Sóller, it climbs for long enough to change the mood of the ride, rising steadily towards the Túnel de Monnaber.

Mallorca
Puy de Dôme, Massif CentralFranceHors Catégorie

Puy de Dôme

Puy de Dôme is one of France’s most evocative climbs, but it comes with a crucial warning. Outside events, it is closed to individual cyclists.

Massif Central
Rocacorba, CataloniaSpainVery Challenging

Rocacorba

Rocacorba is Girona’s honest test piece. Starting from the Banyoles side, it climbs into quiet forest roads and finishes with the kind of gradients that make coffee ride confidence disappear quickly.

Catalonia
Sa Calobra, MallorcaSpainVery Challenging

Sa Calobra

Sa Calobra is Mallorca’s postcard climb with a sting in the tail. The road drops you to the sea first, then asks you to climb back out through twenty six hairpins and the famous Nus de sa Corbata.

Mallorca
Sant Hilari, CataloniaSpainChallenging

Sant Hilari

Sant Hilari is a longer Girona area climb with a calm profile and a useful sense of distance. It is not brutal, but it gives your legs enough time to know they are climbing.

Catalonia
Santa Pellaia, CataloniaSpainModerate

Santa Pellaia

Santa Pellaia is one of Girona’s quieter rhythm climbs. From Cassà de la Selva, it gives you a smooth, manageable effort without losing the feeling of riding proper Catalan backroads.

Catalonia
Taaienberg, FlandersBelgiumChallenging

Taaienberg

Taaienberg is one of those Flemish climbs that looks manageable until the cobbles, gradient and classics history arrive together. It is short, sharp and very easy to underestimate.

Flanders
Trouée d’Arenberg, RoubaixFranceVery Challenging

Trouée d’Arenberg

The Trouée d’Arenberg is not a climb. It is worse in a different way. This 5 star cobbled sector is one of the most iconic and intimidating stretches of road in Paris Roubaix.

Roubaix
Wolvenberg, FlandersBelgiumChallenging

Wolvenberg

Wolvenberg is short, steep and easy to misjudge. It does not have the global fame of the Koppenberg or Paterberg, but the gradient is very real.

Flanders