# Stage 4: Bourges → Uchon · Paris-Nice 2026

Wednesday, March 11 (2026-03-11) · 195 km · Medium Mountain Stage · Start 12:10 local

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A hilly stage with significant climbing in the final 70 km, featuring steep ascents towards the finish.

**Stages shaped like this ended in a sprint 62 of 100 times.** (aggregated from the closest 2011–2025 WorldTour lookalikes in the Parcours similarity corpus)

## Key climbs

- **Côte de la Croix des Cerisiers** — Cat 3, at km 133.4, 6.2 km long, avg 4.3%
- **Côte de la Croix de la Libération** — Cat 2, at km 171.9, 4.6 km long, avg 5.3%
- **Uchon** — Cat 1, at km 195, 8 km long, avg 4.5%

## Intermediate sprints

- **Autun** — intermediate sprint at km 164.7

Total elevation gain: 1834 m · Max elevation: 635 m

Best viewing window (local time): 16:25–17:10.

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Data by Parcours (https://parcours.sh) — elevation profiles, key climbs and watch windows for the 2026 WorldTour season.