# Stage 13: Almuñécar → Loja · Vuelta a España 2026

Friday, September 4 (2026-09-04) · 193.2 km · Medium-mountain Stage

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A medium-mountain stage with most climbing in the first half, leading to a flat finish.

**Stages shaped like this went to the breakaway or a solo attacker 9 of 16 times — 4 from the day's break, 5 late attacks.** (aggregated from the closest 2018–2025 WorldTour lookalikes in the Parcours similarity corpus)

## Key climbs

- **Puerto Los Guájares** — Cat 2, at km 44.6, 14.5 km long, avg 5.3%
- **Puerto Las Albuñuelas** — Cat 3, at km 96.6, 2.4 km long, avg 9.2%
- **Puerto de Granada** — Cat 3, at km 158.8, 11.7 km long, avg 4.2%

Total elevation gain: 3964 m · Max elevation: 1357 m


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