Tour de France 2025 Route stage 15: Muret

Tour de France 2025 Route stage 15: Muret - Carcassonne

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Sunday, 20 July – Stage 15 of the Tour de France serves up 2,500 metres of elevation gain over a 169-kilometre course. Traveling from Muret to Carcassonne, the route seems tailor-made for sprinters with a strongman skillset.

The ascending is really nothing compared to the Pyrenean giants of the preceding days, but pure sprinters will dread it anyway. The first 75 kilometres feature four modest climbs – Côte d’Auterive (1.7-kilometre at 3.9%), Côte de Naillous (1.2-kilometre at 5.4%), Saint-Félix-de-Lauragais (2.5 kilometres at 3.3%), Côte de Saint-Ferréol (2.6 kilometres at 5.5%) – before the Col de la Croix Montalric serves up the longest slope of the day: 11.5 kilometres. The average gradient is modest, though, at 4.3%.

Following the descent and a slightly undulating section of around 10 kilometres, the riders face the Pas du Sant, a 2.9-kilometre ramp at 10%, which is immediately followed by a 3.8-kilometre climb at 3.8% to the summit of the Col de Fontbruno.

With that, proper ascending is done for the day, and the riders fly down a 32-kilometre descent to the village of Villegailhenc. The final 10 kilometres are a flat run-in to the finish line in Carcassonne.

Three years ago, Jasper Philipsen just edged out Wout van Aert and Mads Pedersen in Carcassonne. After a stage that was both reminiscent and entirely different, the finish in the medieval town was a nail-biter.