# Stage 19: Gap → Alpe d'Huez · Tour de France 2026

Friday, July 24 (2026-07-24) · 128 km · Summit Finish · Start 14:00 local

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A challenging stage finishing at Alpe d'Huez after several climbs.

**Stages shaped like this fell to a late solo attack 7 of 12 times — climbers took 6 of those 7.** (aggregated from the closest 2011–2025 WorldTour lookalikes in the Parcours similarity corpus)

## Key climbs

- **Col Bayard** — Cat 2, at km 4.8, 4.8 km long, avg 7.2%
- **Col du Noyer** — Cat 1, at km 25.2, 7.2 km long, avg 8.5%
- **Col d'Ornon** — Cat 2, at km 99.2, 5.4 km long, avg 6.4%
- **Alpe d'Huez** — HC, at km 127.9, 13.7 km long, avg 8.1%

## Intermediate sprints

- **Le Périer** — intermediate sprint at km 89.4

Total elevation gain: 3452 m · Max elevation: 1827 m

Best viewing window (local time): 16:49–17:34.

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