Tour de France 2025, Stage 6: Bayeux → Vire Normandie
Hilly, 10 July 2025. 201.5 km with 3,309 m of climbing.
- Distance
- 201.5 km
- Climbing
- 3,309 m
- Highest point
- 343 m
- Steepest km
- 10.3% at km 55
- Start
- Bayeux 59 m
- Finish
- Vire Normandie 202 m
The wind on the day
Averaged along the route between 12:30 and 17:45 local time: 11 km/h from the north-east, gusting to 25 km/h on average. Dry.
- Average wind
- 11 km/h
- Direction
- North-east 51°
- Average gust
- 25 km/h
- Temperature
- 25°C 21 to 27°C
Historical weather for 10 July 2025, sampled at 58 points along the route and pre-computed before the app shipped. It is not a live forecast and the app makes no weather calls. Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0).
Riding it
201.5 km with 3,309 m of climbing. The road rises at more than 3% for 34.9 km of it and is above 8% for 3.3 km, so the climbing comes in repeated efforts rather than one long ascent.
The high point is 343 m at km 176. The steepest kilometre on the profile averages 10.3%, at km 55. It finishes on flat or gently rolling road.
In ProPace the stage runs with this wind along the route, resolved into headwind, tailwind and crosswind at each point, and the app puts your own numbers on it against the pro reference. The reference profile and how the simulation works are set out in How much slower than a pro are you?