2027 cycling calendar: Grand Tours, Monuments and WorldTour races, Digi Mart USA News: The 2027 professional cycling calendar is shaping up to be especially busy, with 36 UCI WorldTour men’s races, 26 Women’s WorldTour events, three Grand Tours, five Monuments and world championships held in Haute-Savoie, France.
The three Grand Tours will again anchor the professional season. The Giro d’Italia opens the season’s major stage races in May, followed by the Tour de France in July and the Vuelta a España in September.
The Vuelta will take place entirely after the World Championships, a distinctive feature of the 2027 calendar.
The 2027 Tour de France will start in Edinburgh, Scotland, with a Grand Départ in the United Kingdom. The women’s Tour de France Femmes with Zwift will also begin across the Channel, in Leeds, on July 30.
The 2027 UCI WorldTour will feature 36 races in 13 countries on four continents, totaling 169 days of competition. It begins January 19 in Australia with the Tour Down Under and ends October 17 in China with the Tour of Guangxi.
Among the principal WorldTour events, five are scheduled in France: Paris-Nice, Paris-Roubaix, the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (formerly the Critérium du Dauphiné), the Tour de France and the Bretagne Classic.
Women’s cycling will also have a dense international calendar, with 26 Women’s WorldTour events spread across 11 countries and totaling 69 days of competition. The Tour de France Femmes with Zwift, scheduled from July 30 to August 7, is a highlight of the season and precedes the World Championships in France.
The women’s Vuelta will be held in October, rather than in the spring as traditionally.
The five Monuments remain the most prestigious classics on the international calendar. The classics campaign will concentrate mainly in March and April, including the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix one week apart.
The Tour of Lombardy will close the Monuments season in October.
France will host one of the season’s major events, the 2027 UCI Road World Championships, held from August 24 to September 5 in Haute-Savoie Mont-Blanc. The second edition of these “Super Worlds” will bring together 20 UCI World Championships across 16 competition venues, with more than 15,000 athletes expected over 13 days contesting 288 world titles.
The men’s Elite road race is scheduled for August 29, 2027, and the women’s Elite road race for September 5, 2027.
This exceptional organization will significantly alter the sequence of several races on the international calendar, notably the late-season Grand Tours. While the men’s WorldTour calendar keeps a structure close to that of 2026, several important changes are noted, allowing riders and teams to organize their seasons around the Grand Tours and the World Championships.
