Tour de France iCal calendar

Want to know when every Tour de France stage is on, even need to plan daily life around them for the next month? Here’s the calendar to view or download to your phone.

The stages of the men’s and women’s Tours are included together.

All stages come with the day’s timing from KM0 (and not the start of the neutral parade) to the finish so you can plan any meetings around them. These have been entered in the local time (CEST / GMT+2) for the race and normally they adjust to your device’s time zone.

Obviously the finish time will vary according to the racing, the weather, the times used here are the central forecast from the organisers. This should be useful as the timing of the finish does vary significantly across the three weeks, excluding the final stage in Paris other days have finishes between 4pm and 6pm CEST.

There’s a subjective star rating from 1-3 to suggest the most important or exciting days but stay tuned, what looks a processional flat stage where nobody might attack can could become a summer classic if there’s wind.

Download to your phone or diary – iCal
An iCal is a calendar file that you can store on your phone or electronic diary like Outlook or Calendar. There are several ways to get this on to your computer or phone.

Subscribe and get automatic updates for any changes: The recommended option is to subscribe by copying the iCal URL:

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/4161fe0ca61ccdd6fcfec4f1c867613cd99f22018987a7e0e7e2cd001ed83af4%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics

The descriptions below should help but with device and software updates they might not always be the exact path.

• If you use MacOS copy the URL… and open the Calendar app. Then got to File > New Calendar Subscription…) and paste in the link and you’re done
• iPhone/iPad users should push and hold down a finger here , wait for the pop up message and select “Copy Link”. Then on your device go to settings > calendar > accounts  > add account > other > add subscribed calendar > paste in the URL in the server field
• If you use Microsoft Outlook on the web copy the URL and then go to Calendar/Calendar icon > Open Calendar > From Internet > and paste the URL to subscribe > OK > Yes
• Google Calendar: If you use Google Calendar then click on the “+” icon on the bottom-right of the calendar window above. Note this method can work with Android phones when the iCal file might not although you might need the Google Sync calendar app
• You can also download the tiny iCal file and import this manually too, right-click here and save.

Hopefully you can figure it out. In case anyone worries about downloading files from a sports blog, rest assured all these files are generated, hosted and delivered by Google.

If you’d like something similar for the whole cycling season then you’ll find this at inrng.com/calendar.