How to Watch the Tour de France 2026

Cancel all your plans. The Tour de France is coming.

Starting on July 4 in Barcelona, the world’s biggest bike race returns bigger than ever.

Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard will resume their long brawl for yellow jersey supremacy.

Paul Seixas and Remco Evenepoel are backing themselves to throw haymakers in the GC fight.

Top Americans Sepp Kuss, Matteo Jorgenson, and Brandon McNulty are poised for starring roles, as are Mathieu van der Poel, Tom Pidcock, and Mads Pedersen.

This is the most hotly-anticipated edition of the Tour de France in years.

And better still, you can follow it all live on television and streaming services worldwide.

A team time trial, two finishes on Alpe d’Huez, and a spicy finale over the Montmartre in Paris will decide who wins the yellow jersey and earns a slot in cycling history.

Don’t miss a minute of it.

How to watch the 2026 Tour de France

All 21 stages of the 2026 Tour de France will be broadcast live worldwide. Highlights packages will also be available.

Many broadcasters will show racing from the neutral rollout right the way through to the finish-line celebrations. Reschedule all your other plans to accommodate.

However you plan to follow the race this July, be sure to bookmark our Tour de France hub here on Velo. That’s where you’ll find the most important Tour de France news, analysis, and tech scoops from on the ground and via our remote team.

How to watch the Tour de France – broadcaster guide:

USA: NBC Sports / Peacock
Canada: FloSports
UK: TNT Sports / HBO Max
Australia: SBS
Worldwide: Eurosport, France Televisions, RTBF, VRT, TV2, RTVE, RAI, NOS, SuperSport, J Sport, ESPN

Tour de France stage schedule and times

Stages will typically finish somewhere between 17:00 CET and 17:30 CET.

However, note that both the stage 1 Barcelona TTT and the stage 21 finale in Paris will finish later at around 19:15-19:30 CET.

Stage 1: Saturday July 4 – Barcelona TTT (19km)
Stage 2: Sunday July 5 – Tarragona to Barcelona (178km)
Stage 3: Monday July 6 – Granollers to Les Angles (196km)
Stage 4: Tuesday July 7 – Carcassonne to Foix (182km)
Stage 5: Wednesday July 8 – Lannemezan to Pau (158km
Stage 6: Thursday July 9 – Pau to Gavarnie-Gèdre (186km)
Stage 7: Friday July 10 – Hagetmau to Bordeaux (175km)
Stage 8: Saturday July 11 – Périgueux to Bergerac (182km)
Stage 9: Sunday July 12 – Malemort to Ussel (185km)
Rest day 1: Monday July 13
Stage 10: Tuesday July 14 – Aurillac to Le Lioran (166.6km)
Stage 11: Wednesday July 15 – Vichy to Nevers (161.3km)
Stage 12: Thursday July 16 – Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours to Chalon-sur-Saône (179.1km)
Stage 13: Friday July 17 – Dole to Belfort (205.8km)
Stage 14: Saturday July 18 – Mulhouse to Le Markstein Fellering (155.3km)
Stage 15: Sunday July 19 – Champagnole to Plateau de Solaison (183.9km)
Rest day 2: Monday July 20
Stage 16: Tuesday July 21 – Évian-les-Bains to Thonon-les-Bains ITT (26km)
Stage 17: Wednesday July 22 – Chambéry to Voiron (175km)
Stage 18: Thursday July 23 – Voiron to Orcières-Merlette (185km)
Stage 19: Friday July 24 – Gap to Alpe d’Huez (128km)
Stage 20: Saturday July 25 – Le Bourg d’Oisans to Alpe d’Huez (171km)
Stage 21: Sunday July 26 – Thoiry to Paris-Champs-Élysées (130km)