Blog - Paris-Nice

The Paris-Nice 2023 race route on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules ... and the start list

Even though you wouldn't say, looking at the current temperatures, and even though the riders might go through some episodes of rain, the time has come already for the Race to the sun, or by its official name, Paris-Nice. The 81st edition will start tomorrow, Sunday 5 March 2023, from La Verrière in the Yvelines department and the riders will have 1201 kilometers to ride before they cross the finish line of the last stage, on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice.

For the first time, either in a very long time or in the history of Paris-Nice (not easy to check!), a team time trial will be on the program of Paris-Nice 2023, on the third stage where each of the 22 teams will race a time trial in the form of a triangle on the map. A particularity of this team time trial is ...

Søren Kragh Andersen with a maximum force at the 3rd stage of Paris-Nice 2022

A breakaway of three riders created the main interest for the stage of the day in Paris-Nice 2022, but in the final circuit final, while there was still around 25 kilometers to go, their adventure came to an end.

Since the sprinters teams had been working for a big part of the day to come back on the leading trio, a sprint became unevitable and in the long straight line, slightly uphill, towards the finish line, Mads Pedersen (Trek-Segafredo) managed to make the difference and win this stage.

The summary of the third stage of Paris-Nice 2022: Vierzon > Dun-le-Palestel

Second stage of Paris-Nice: sprint victory from a reduced peloton for Fabio Jakobsen

The second stage of Paris-Nice 2022 ended in a sprint, but not without the wind taking its role to reduce the number of pretendants!

In the end it was Fabio Jakobsen (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team) who took the victory, while Christophe Laporte finished almost immediately behind him, thus maintaining his leader position in the general classification. The French rider of the Dutch Jumbo-Visma team will thus again wear his yellow jersey tomorrow!

The summary of the second stage of Paris-Nice 2022: Auffargis > Orléans

The demonstration by Jumbo-Visma in the final part of the first stage of Paris-Nice: victory for Christophe Laporte

A team time trial? No, that was not what was on the programme of the first Paris-Nice 2022 stage today. However, 3 riders of the Jumbo-Visma team arrived together in a breakaway on the finish line and the trio decided to leave the victory to Christophe Laporte!

The summary of the first stage of Paris-Nice 2022: Mantes-la-Ville > Mantes-la-Ville

The Paris-Nice 2020 race route on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules

While the French cycling season is starting up again in March (after some first races in February) Paris-Nice or "the race to the sun" is on the programme starting this Sunday 8 and going on until Sunday 15 March 2020. 8 stages, including one individual time trial halfway the week, will bring the 136 riders of 17 teams from Plaisir to Nice in about 1220 kilometers traveling all the way from Paris down to the south of France.

As usual, velowire.com allows you to discover the race route on extremely detailed maps, based on Open Street Maps but also available for download in Google Earth, so you can do - if you want to - a virtual fly-over on one or several stages of Paris-Nice 2020.

The organisation of Paris-Nice is a bit disturbed this year due to the COVID19 / coronavirus health situation. Therefore, several mesures will be taken in order to limit the propagation risk of the virus related to the race. For ...

The Paris-Nice 2019 race route on Open Street Maps/Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules

The 77th edition of Paris-Nice which starts this Sunday is made up of 8 stages (of which 1 time trial) for a total distance of 1,207.5 km visiting a total of 11 departments (the Gard department is the one which benefits of the shortest visit of only a few kilometers during the time trial on Thursday) and containing no less than 24 climbs, including the Col de Turini on the queen stage on Saturday.

In this article, you'll find the usual presentation of the Paris-Nice 2019 race route with maps on Open Street Maps/Google Earth.

Let's now have a detailed look on the 8 stages of this Paris-Nice:

1/ Sunday 10 March 2019 - Saint-Germain-en-Laye > Saint-Germain-en-Laye - 138.5 km

Paris-Nice 2018: sunshine for the Spanish riders David De La Cruz and Marc Soler in the final stage

The sun was definitely missing from the final part of Paris-Nice 2018 in Nice (despite the nickname of the race, the Race to the sun), with this stage of 110 kilometers which took place under the rain. If there were any sunrays, those were for the two Spanish riders who managed to get some good results out of this stage, David De la Cruz (Sky) for the stage win in a duo sprint and Marc Soler (Movistar) who wins the race thanks to the delay of the yellow jersey and the bonus seconds!

The summary of the 8th and final stage of Paris-Nice 2018: Nice > Nice

Paris-Nice 2018: Simon Yates solo and with a double win in the 7th stage!

The forelast stage of Paris-Nice 2018, who partly took place in the rain, was a difficult stage with several climbs. Simon Yates is the one who managed to be the last one to get away, in the final climb towards the mountain top finish and that's how the English rider not only won the stage but also took the jersey of the general classification!

The summary of the 7th stage of Paris-Nice 2018: Nice > Valdeblore La Colmiane

Paris-Nice 2018: Rudy Molard solo at the end of the 6th stage!

After the time trial in Saint-Etienne won by Wout Poels (Team Sky) and the 5th stage of Paris-Nice 2018 won in a solo victory by Jérôme Cousin (Direct Energie), it was again a solo victory which concluded the 6th stage in Vence today. Indeed, Rudy Molard (Groupama-FDJ) went off alone just before the last kilometer and won the stage in this way!

The summary of the 6th stage of Paris-Nice 2018: Sisteron > Vence

Paris-Nice 2018: Jonathan Hivert goes on till the end with the breakaway and wins the 3rd stage

A stage for breakaway riders today in Paris-Nice 2018 and that's what we've seen, starting with a first breakaway right from the first kilometer and than, once this leading trio falls apart after an accelleration by Fabien Grellier (Direct Energie) in this group, a second leading trio got set up after the first crossing of the finish line, in the final circuit. This leading trio went on until the finish and battled for the stage win, taken by Jonathan Hivert (Direct Energie)!

The summary of the 3rd stage of Paris-Nice 2018: Bourges > Châtel-Guyon