Cycling in Yorkshire & Beyond
Cycling in Yorkshire & Beyond
Stage 10 | Stage 11 | Stage 12
Stage 11 of the Tour de France 2025 is a 158.6km flat stage starting and finishing in Toulouse.
There are four Category 4 climbs on Stage 11, but it's the Category 3 Côte de Pech David that might prove to be crucial. It is a 800m climb at 12.4% with 9km to go.
It might dislodge some of the sprinters, and if so we can expect a reduced bunch sprint on Boulevard Lascrosses in Toulouse.
This is the race report for Stage 11 Tour de France 2025.
These are video highlights of Stage 11.
Race Details | Poll | Map & Profile | Timings | Videos | Food & Drink | Route Notes | Favourites
| Date | Wednesday 16th July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Stage classification | Flat |
| Distance | 158.6km |
| Intermediate sprint | Labastide-Beauvoir |
| Climbs | Côte de Castelnau-d'Estrétefonds (Cat. 4) Côte de Montgiscard (Cat. 4) Côte de Corronsac (Cat. 4) Côte de Vielle Toulouse (Cat. 4) Côte de Pech David (Cat. 3) |
| Total climbing | 1,750m |
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This is a map of the route of Stage 11, Tour de France 2025.
This is a zoom-able map of Stage 11 Tour de France 2025.
This is the profile of Stage 11 Tour de France 2025.
| Caravan | Fast Schedule | Slow Schedule | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start Time (départ fictif) | 1115 |
1315 |
1315 |
| Start Time (départ réel) | 1145 |
1345 |
1345 |
| Labastide Beauvoir Intermediate Sprint | 1401 |
1549 |
1601 |
| Côte de Montgiscard Climb | 1421 |
1607 |
1621 |
| Côte de Pech David Climb | 1511 |
1654 |
1711 |
| Finish Line (156.8km) | 1524 |
1705 |
1724 |
This is a video of the route of Stage 11 Tour de France 2025.
Last time the Tour de France finished in Toulouse was on Stage 11 of the 2019 edition. Caleb Ewan pipped Dylan Groenwegen to the win.
Stage 11 starts and finishes in Toulouse.
Food in Toulouse is dominated by meat and poultry. Cassoulet is a dish with white beans, pork, duck, lamb and Toulouse sausage. It is cooked slowly and served in a bowl.
Croustade aux pommes is an apple pie with apples flambéed in Armagnac.
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The stage starts in Toulouse at the main stadium on the Ile du Ramier (départ fictif).
Stage 11 starts and finishes in Toulouse.
Toulouse is the capital of the Haute-Garonne département and the Occitania region. It's on the river Garonne. It's the fourth largest city in France, with a population of 510,000.
It was founded by the Romans, and became the Visigoth capital in the 400s. In 507, Clovis captured it for the Franks.
The County of Toulouse was created by Charlemagne in 778, and thereafter Toulouse became, in effect, independent. Counts of Toulouse were patrons of troubadours who wrote poetry in Occitan in the 1000s and 1100s.
In the 1200s, the Pope instigated a crusade against Cathars in and around Toulouse. The French King joined in on the side of the Pope, and in 1226 Count Raymond VII had to submit to the King, ending the independence of his county.
In the 1500s, Toulouse prospered as a centre for trade in the dye woad.
Between 1666 and 1681, Pierre-Paul Riquet built the Canal du Midi to connect Toulouse to the Mediterranean Sea.
Toulouse is known as la ville rose due to its buildings built with the large foraine brick.
The Basilica of Saint Saturnin is named after the first Bishop of Toulouse Saturnin. It is a very large Romanesque structure built at the end of the 1000s and start of the 1100s.
Toulouse University was founded in 1229, and is thriving today, with 140,000 students.
Airbus has its HQ in Toulouse, which is a centre for the aerospace and defence industries.
The race rolls out of Toulouse on quite a long neutralised section which takes in the Place du Capitole.
Leaving the city, the peloton heads north north west past Blagnac airport. The départ réel is at the far side of Beauzelle.
The riders continue to Aussonne then to Merville.
From Merville, the race persists in travelling north to Grenade, a ville bastide founded in the 1290s. Then it crosses the Garonne to Ondes and the Canal des Deux Mers to Castelnau-d'Estrétefonds.
Now the riders tackle the first categorised climb.
As the parcours leaves the canal behind the road rises. This is the Côte de Castelnau d'Estrétefonds.
It is 1.4km at 6.6% to a height of 218m.
KOM competition: 1 point for 1st place.
Fronton is the next town on the route. The riders then head south south east via Villaudric past vineyards, then south to Cépet.
From Cépet, the route goes south east to Labastide Saint-Sernin. The D20 and the D888 then take the race to Castelmaurou. A few kilometres further south is Lanta.
It's uphill to the hamlet of Fourquevaux before Stage 11 continues to Labastide-Beauvoir.
The intermediate sprint at Labastide-Beauvoir comes with 97.3km raced.
Green jersey competition: from 20 points for 1st place down to 1 point for 15th place.
Next comes Baziège, to the south of Toulouse and on the Canal du Midi.
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After crossing the Canal du Midi and the autoroute A61, the race goes through Montgiscard. After the village comes the next categorised climb.
The Côte de Montgiscard is 1.6km at an average 5.3% to a height of 282m.
KOM competition: 1 point for 1st place.
The race continues to Montbrun-Lauragais and Corronsac. From Corronsac there's another climb.
The Côte de Corronsac is 900m at an average 6.7% to a height of 267m.
KOM competition: 1 point for 1st place.
Now it's onwards towards Castanet-Tolosan.
Stage 11 then makes its way via a twisty route to Vigoulet-Auzil, before heading west towards the river Garonne. The riders go along the D4 Route de Lacroix-Falgarde then branch away from the river on the D4b, climbing towards Vieille-Toulouse.
There was a Gallic oppidum here at Vieille-Toulouse, near the confluence of the Garonne and the Ariège. The Celtic people who lived there were called the Volques Tectosages.
The Romans occupied the site from the C1st BC, and it was a
commercial centre. In the C1st AD, they abandoned it in favour of the
current site of Toulouse.
The Côte de Vielle-Toulouse is 1.3km at an average 6.8% to a height of 257m.
KOM competition: 1 point for 1st place.
There's a descent back towards the Garonne on the D95, then the race is on the M4 by the river. The next climb starts on the Chemin des Canalets, heading up past the Base de Loisirs Pech-David.
The Côte de Pech David is 800m at an average 12.4% to a height of 249m.
KOM competition: 2 points for 1st place and one point for 2nd place.
At the top of the hill in Rangueil the riders head north on the M113 Route de Narbonne, with the finish not far away.
Stage 11 goes through the Saint-Agne and Saint-Michel districts of Toulouse.
There's a right turn onto the Avenue Crampel, then Allée des Demoiselles and Allées Frédéric Mistral lead to a roundabout at the Place Boulingrin.
There it's straight on onto the Allées Forain Francois Verdier, past the Cathédral Saint-Etienne. The road becomes the Boulevard Lazare Carnot, Boulevard de Strasbourg, Boulevard d'Arcole, then Boulevard de Lascrosses.
The finish line is on the Boulevard de Lascrosses, near the Jardin Compans-Caffarelli.
Green jersey competition at the finish: from 50 points for 1st place down to 2 points for 15th place.
Time bonuses at the finish:
Favourites for Stage 11 of the 2025 Tour de France include the sprinters.
Last time the Tour finished in Toulouse, in 2019, Caleb Ewan beat Dylan Groenewegen. Ewan signed for Ineos in 2025, but after a good start to the season he retired. He therefore won't win again in la ville rose, but who will?
It's possible to imagine some of the sprinters being dislodged on the Côte de Pech David. Arnaud de Lie might do better on the climb than some of the others, so could hope to win.
Who do you think will win Stage 11 of the 2025 Tour de France?
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