All About Tour de Zwift 2025

December 9, 2024

LAST UPDATED December 10, 2024

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First launched in 2017, Tour de Zwift is the biggest annual tour on the platform – a celebration of discovery across all Zwift worlds!

This year’s tour has just been announced. Beginning January 6, it consists of six stages spread across all of Zwift’s maps. Each stage has three group ride options based on how far you want to ride, and there’s a run option for each stage as well.

So grab a friend and explore! Here’s everything riders need to know about this year’s TdZ.

Registration and details at zwift.com/tour-de-zwift

New This Year

Fresh Routes/Badges

New routes will be featured a various stages, and each includes a route badge with bonus XP:

London Flat (12.4km, 115m) – Stage 1
Outer Scotland (11.1km, 99m) – Stage 2
Petite Douleur (25.7km, 387m) – Stage 4

These routes will be permanently available in-game once TdZ ends.

There are also two existing routes that will be getting achievement badges for the first time, giving riders more opportunities to earn extra XP:

The Magnificent 8 (28.8km, 131m) – Stage 3
NYC KOM After Party (37.4km, 440m) – Stage 5

The Ultimate Challenge

Can you ride each of the three routes in all six stages? Zwift is throwing down the gauntlet this year, albeit in sort of a hidden fashion, but offering a tracking tool and additional unlocks for those looking to complete every route on every stage of Tour de Zwift 2025. More on that below!

Fresh Kit Unlocks

As ever, there’s xnew stuff to unlock in this year’s TdZ. You’ve got fresh socks, the game’s first-ever beanie, and potentially three different kits: the TdZ Ride kit, the TdZ Run kit, and The Ultimate Challenge kit! See below for details…

Stage Details

Group rides are scheduled every hour, except during the makeup week, when they’ll be scheduled every 30 minutes. Here are the route details for each stage:

Stage 1 (Jan 6-12): Rolling Start

Long Ride: Makuri 40, 1 lap (40.2km, 307m)
Standard Ride: The Muckle Yin, 1 lap (23.6km, 282m)
Short Ride: London Flat, 1 lap (17.4km, 119m) * new route
Run: Park to Peak, 1 lap (4.6km)

Stage 2 (Jan 13-19): Rolling Heights

Long Ride: Snowman, 1 lap (44km, 578m)
Standard Ride: Temples and Towers, 1 lap (33.4km, 280m)
Short Ride: Outer Scotland, 2 laps (22.3km, 198m) * new route
Run: Titans Run, 1 lap (5.9km)

Stage 3 (Jan 20-26): Cruise Control

Long Ride: The Big Ring, 1 lap (51.1km, 270m)
Standard Ride: The Magnificent 8, 1 lap (28.8km, 131m) * new route badge
Short Ride: Island Hopper, 1 lap (18km, 128m)
Run: Queen’s Highway, 1 lap (5.8km)

Stage 4 (Jan 27-Feb 2): Climbs

Long Ride: La Reine, 1 lap (22.8km, 1,181m)
Standard Ride: Lutscher, 1 lap (24.6km, 829m)
Short Ride: Petite Douleur, 1 lap (25.7km, 387m) * new route
Run: Epic Run, 1 lap (6.2km)

Stage 5 (Feb 3-9): Loop the Loop

Long Ride: NYC KOM After Party, 1 lap (37.4km, 440m) * new route badge
Standard Ride: Libby Hill After Party, 1 lap (33.2km, 118m)
Short Ride: Queen’s Highway After Party, 1 lap (19.9km, 259m)
Run: Glasgow Crit Circuit, 2 laps (6.2km)

Stage 6 (Feb 10-16): Endurance Quest

Long Ride: Shisa Shakedown, 1 lap (53.3km, 557m)
Standard Ride: Coast Crusher, 1 lap (42.8km, 140m)
Short Ride: Coast to Coast, 1 lap (26.8km, 154m)
Run: Couch to Sky K, 1 lap (6.7km)

Registration and details at zwift.com/tour-de-zwift/

Make-Up Week: Feb 17-23

If you miss any group ride stages, they will all be available to ride during the make-up week. During this week, make-up rides are scheduled every 30 minutes, with each stage following the next every half hour.

Registration

Registration for TdZ is now open online and in game. Sign up at zwift.com/tour-de-zwift/.

Unlocks

Riders and runners will unlock items progressively as they complete TdZ stages:

Socks: 1 stage
Beanie: 3 stages
Ride Kit: all 6 stages
Run Kit: all 6 stages

To complete a stage, simply finish one of the group rides (three lengths to choose from) or runs.

Ultimate Challenge

New this year, Zwift is featuring “The Ultimate Challenge.” This is for riders only, and completing the challenge requires you to complete all 18 routes featured in this year’s stages.

Note: Zwift estimates that it will take riders 21 hours to complete all 18 stages at 2 W/kg. This estimate is quite close to our ZIMetrics estimate of 20 hours and 41 minutes.

While completing the regular Tour de Zwift requires you to complete stages in group rides, you can select any of the routes and ride them on demand in order to get credit toward The Ultimate Challenge. Note, though, that your ride must be done after the first TdZ event kicks off on January 6, and before Tour de Zwift ends on February 23.

You’ll be able to check your progress via a personal dashboard at zwift.com/tdz-ultimate-challenge

Completing The Ultimate Challenge earns you bragging rights and the exclusive TdZ Ultimate Challenge beanie (earned at 50% completion) and kit (earned at 100% completion):