# Stage 7: Nice → Auron Isola-Village · Paris-Nice 2026

Saturday, March 14 (2026-03-14) · 120.4 km · Mountain Stage · Start 12:00 local

Page: https://parcours.sh/stage/paris-nice-2026-stage-7
Race: https://parcours.sh/race/paris-nice-2026
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A mountain stage shortened to 47 km due to weather, originally featuring challenging climbs.

**Stages shaped like this went to the breakaway or a solo attacker 22 of 44 times — 10 from the day's break, 12 late attacks.** (aggregated from the closest 2011–2025 WorldTour lookalikes in the Parcours similarity corpus)

## Key climbs

- **Côte de Carros** — Cat 2, at km 16.3, 7 km long, avg 5.1%
- **Côte de Bouyon** — Cat 3, at km 24.4, 1.7 km long, avg 6.1%

## Intermediate sprints

- **Le Plan du Var** — intermediate sprint at km 75.3

Total elevation gain: 1914 m · Max elevation: 871 m

Best viewing window (local time): 14:31–15:16.

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