How to watch Tour de France 2025: live stream cycling online from anywhere

The Tour de France 2025 is here and once again Tadej Pogačar is the undeniable favourite and after 5 stages already has a 42 second lead over his nearest rival Remco Evenepoel.

Want to watch it unfold live? Here's how to watch Tour de France live streams, free, and from anywhere with a VPN.

After four days of riding like the Duracell Bunny, Jonas Vingegaard fell to pieces when it mattered and lost 1:05 to Tadej Pogačar in the stage 5 time trial. Heading into stage 6 the general classification has begun to take shape with Pogačar now in yellow 42 seconds ahead of Evenepoel with the rising French star Kévin Vauquelin in third at 59 seconds. Stage 6 is a lumpy one but expect a Breakaway to be allowed to escape while the favourites recover from a manic first 5 stages.

Stage 6, the 201.5km from Bayeux to Vire starts at 12:45 p.m local time on Tuesday (11:45 p.m. UK / 6:45 a.m. ET) and is expected to finish around 4:14 p.m. UK time / 11:14 p.m. ET.

Jonas Vingegaard, Primož Roglič, Remco Evenepoel and of course Tadej Pogačar are all battling for the 112th Tour de France. Pogačar is the number one out-and-out favorite who, backed up by a team of leaders all devoted to him is likely to take his 4th title at just 26 years old.

Read on for where to watch Tour de France 2025 and live coverage of a whole month of top cycling action, wherever you are in the world.

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FREE Tour de France 2025 live streams

Cycling fans in U.K. and Australia can watch FREE the 2025 Tour de France for free.

You can find the free streams on the U.K.'s ITV ITVX and Australia’s SBS (register with an email address).

If you're traveling abroad, you'll need to use a VPN to unblock your usual free stream. We've tried it with NordVPN and it works perfectly.

Non-english free streams are available on Italy's Rai, Belgium's RTBF and France's France.TV

Watch free Tour de France live streams from abroad

Away from home and blocked from watching your free cycling stream?

You can still watch the Tour de France 2025 live thanks to the wonders of a VPN (Virtual Private Network). The software allows your devices to appear to be back in your home country regardless of where in the world you are. So ideal for viewers away on vacation or on business. Our favorite is NordVPN. It's the best on the market:

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Using a VPN is incredibly simple.

1. Install the VPN of your choice. As we've said, NordVPN is our favorite.

2. Choose the location you wish to connect to in the VPN app. For instance if you're in the U.S. and want to view a U.K. service, you'd select U.K. from the list.

3. Sit back and enjoy the action. Head to ITVX, or another streaming service, and watch the action.

Watch Tour de France 2025 live streams in the U.S.

Cycling fans in the U.S. can watch the 2025 Tour de France on Peacock who will have all 21 stages. (from $7.99 per month).

NBC will also join for live coverage of Stages 1 and 20. You can access NBC via SlingTV as explained earlier.

Sling is king here but other alternatives include DirecTV, and FuboTV or Hulu with Live TV.

And if you're currently out of the U.S. but still want to watch all the stages, then don't forget to explore NordVPN set out above.

Watch Tour de France 2025 live streams in the U.K.

Cycling fans in the U.K. can watch the 2025 Tour de France live for FREE on ITVX via the ITV4 channel.

ITV4 is a free-to-air channel in the U.K., though it requires a TV licence and a UK postcode (e.g. SE1 7PB) to watch content live on ITVX.

Live coverage of the 2025 Tour de France will also be broadcast in the UK on TNT Sports. To access TNT Sports, you'll either need to add it to your TV package, or you can take out a standalone subscription via Discovery+ which will set you back £30.99 per month, though BT Broadband customers can get a discounted rate.

If you're currently traveling overseas, don't worry, as you can use NordVPN to watch from abroad.

Watch Tour de France 2025 live streams in Canada

The world feed of Cycling's most legendary race is streaming exclusively in Canada on FloBikes. Watch the Tour de France and catch the action of every sprint, climb and time trial.

Note, only Canadian customers get access – the U.S. arm of FloBikes doesn't have the rights to the 2025 Tour de France.

UK resident visiting the Great White North? Use NordVPN or another VPN service to trick your device into thinking you're still in the UK so you can watch ITV's Tour de France stream for free.

Watch Tour de France 2025 live streams in Australia

In a similar vein to the U.K., Australian residents will be able to watch all stages of the Tour de France for free.

SBS on Demand will be your home for the race and you can sign in right now via Google, Facebook or Apple accounts. Simply provide your birth year and gender and watch for free!

Outside Oz during the Tour? You can still catch the action by using NordVPN.

Tour de France 2025 stage information

For the first time in five years all 21 stages of the race will take place on French soil with this year's 'Grand Depart' being held in the northern city of Lille.

Kicking off the journey with a pan flat course, stage one will certainly be for the sprinters all of whom will be desperate to don the first Maillot Jaune of the 2025. Staying in the north-east for two more stages then heading west into Brittany the opening week is composed of flat and hilly days with a time trial on stage 5 which will start to shape the GC.

After a longer than normal first period due to Bastille Day falling on a Monday, the initial 10 days then finish with stage 10 in the Massif Central on the climb to Le Mont-Dore.

Week two sees the race transfer south to the Pyrenees kicking off with a flat stage around Toulouse before the mountains arrive on stage 12 with a visit to the mighty Hautacam. This stage, as with all first big mountain days will likely set the agenda for the rest of the race so is one not to be missed. Followed the next day by an uphill time trial to Peyragudes and another massive day of climbing on stage 14 to Superbagnères, the Pyrenees will certainly shake things up.

There's one more stage in the south before the second rest day then week three kicks off with a visit to one of the most feared mountains in all of France, the legendary Mont Ventoux.

Stage 17 is then thankfully flat before BANG, stages 18 and 19 are again both summit finishes on the Col de la Loze and La Plagne respectively. These two days, if it wasn't sorted long ago will decide the overall before the race heads into its final weekend with a lumpy stage to Pontarlier followed by the typical finish into Paris, which this year comes with a twist.

After the success of the Paris Olympic road race which centred around the climb to Montmartre, instead of the normal laps of the Champs-Élysées, this year the final stage will include three of these vicious ascents which is sure to despatch the sprinters and set up the unpredictable finale the fans crave.

Stage 1 | Saturday July 5 | Lille – Lille, 184.9km

Stage 2 | Sunday July 6 | Lauwin-Planque – Boulogne-sur-Mer, 209.1km

Stage 3 | Monday July 7 | Valenciennes – Dunkirk, 178.3km

Stage 4 | Tuesday July 8 | Amiens – Rouen, 174.2km

Stage 5 | Wednesday July 9 | Caen – Caen, 33.0km (ITT)

Stage 6 | Thursday July 10 | Bayeux – Vire, 201.5km

Stage 7 | Friday July 11 | Saint-Malo – Mûr-de-Bretagne, 197.0km

Stage 8 | Saturday July 12 | Saint-Méen-le-Grand – Laval, 171.4km

Stage 9 | Sunday July 13 | Chinon – Châteauroux, 174.1km

Stage 10 | Monday July 14 | Ennezat – Le Mont-Dore, 165.3km

REST DAY | Tuesday July 15

Stage 11 | Wednesday July 16 | Toulouse – Toulouse, 156.8km

Stage 12 | Thursday July 17 | Auch – Hautacam, 180.6km

Stage 13 | Friday July 18 | Loudenvielle – Peyragudes, 10.9km (ITT)

Stage 14 | Saturday July 19 | Pau – Superbagnères, 182.6km

Stage 15 | Sunday July 20 | Muret – Carcassonne, 169.3km

REST DAY | Monday July 21

Stage 16 | Tuesday July 22 | Montpellier – Mont-Ventoux, 171.5 km

Stage 17 | Wednesday July 23 | Bollène – Valence, 160.4km

Stage 18 | Thursday July 24 | Vif – Col de la Loze, 171.5km

Stage 19 | Friday July 25 | Albertville – La Plagne, 129.9km

Stage 20 | Saturday July 26 | Nantua – Pontarlier, 184.2km

Stage 21 | Sunday July 27 | Mantes-la-Ville – Paris, 132.3km

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