Vuelta a España 2025: All you need to know

Who will succeed Primož Roglič as Vuelta a España 2025 winner?.

The Vuelta a España 2025, the 80th edition of the race, will be the final Grand Tour of the season, with the race following the Giro d'Italia and Tour de France in the WorldTour calendar.

The route for the 2025 edition looks tailor-made for Jonas Vingegaard (Visma Lease a Bike) who will be looking to get back to winning ways after playing second fiddle to Tadej Pogačar at the Tour de France throughout July. Pogačar was initially planning on riding the Vuelta, but has decided to miss the Spanish race and focus on retaining his world title in Rwanda next month.

With just one fully flat stage, 10 summit finishes, another ascent of the fearsome Angliru and a mountainous time trial, this is another one for the hardiest of climbers and one to miss for the sprinters.

A far cry from 2025's Tour de France route, which takes place entirely within French borders, the Vuelta takes a jaunt around Europe before settling down in Spain. Beginning in Turin, Italy, the race pays a visit to France and Andorra for its most international edition (by number of countries visited) since 2009.

It's also an extremely northern edition of the race, with the traditional closing stage in Madrid marking its furthest venture south.

Andorra plays host to the first major GC battle, a summit finish in Pal, kicking off a tough weekend in the Pyrenees and a densely-packed mountainous second week. After a couple of stages for the puncheurs the highest mountains return, including the Alto de l'Angliru on - to add insult to injury - the longest stage of the race, a 202km slog up to the legendary peak.

The climbing is broken up by a flat ITT for the specialists in Vallodolid on stage 18, but then it's back to the high mountains once more on the penultimate stage, with a summit finish on the 2,200m-tall Puerto de Navacerrada.

Here's all you need to know ahead of the last Grand Tour of the season.

• 2025 Vuelta a España route
• 2025 Vuelta a España start list
• 2025 Vuelta a España contenders - TBC

Red jersey Primož Roglič leads the way on Stage 20, 2024. (Image credit: Getty Images)

Vuelta a España 2025: Key details

Date	23 August 2025 to 14 September 2025
Total distance	3151km
Number of stages	21
Start location	Turin, Italy
Finish location	Madrid, Spain
UCI Ranking	WorldTour
Edition	80th
Total climbing	TBC
2024 winner	Primož Roglič
TV coverage (UK)	TNT Sports, Discovery+
TV coverage (US)	Peacock

Route map showing Vuelta a España 2025 (Image credit: La Vuelta)

Vuelta a España 2025: Stage-by-stage

Stage	Date	Start location	Finish location	Distance	Terrain
1	23 August	Torino	Novara	200km	Flat
2	24 August	Alba	Limone Piemonte	157km	Flat, uphill finale
3	25 August	San Maurizio Canavese	Ceres	139km	Medium mountains
4	26 August	Susa	Voiron	192km	Medium mountains
5	27 August	Figueres	Figueres	20km	TTT
6	28 August	Olot	Pal. Andorra	170km	Mountains
7	29 August	Andorra la Vella	Cerler. Huesca la Magia	187km	Mountains
8	30 August	Monzón Templario	Zaragoza	187km	Mountains
9	31 August	Alfaro	Estación de Esqui de Valdezcaray	195km	Hilly, uphill finale
10	2 September	Parque de la Naturaleza Sendaviva	El Ferial Larra Belagua	168km	Flat, uphill finale
11	3 September	Bilbao	Bilbao	167km	Medium mountains
12	4 September	Laredo	Los Corrales de Buelna	143km	Medium mountains
13	5 September	Cabezón de la Sal	L'Angliru	202km	Mountains
14	6 September	Avilés	Alto de la Farrapona. Lagos de Somiedo	135km	Mountains
15	7 September	A Veiga/Vegadeo	Monforte de Lemos	167km	Medium mountains
16	9 September	Poio	Mos. Castro de Herville	172km	Medium mountains
17	10 September	O Barco de Valdeorras	Alto de El Morredero. Ponferrada	137km	Medium mountains
18	11 September	Valladolid	Valladolid	26km	ITT
19	12 September	Rueda	Guijuelo	159km	Flat
20	13 September	Robledo de Chavela	Bola del Mundo. Puerto de Navacerrada	156km	Mountains
21	14 September	Alalpardo	Madrid	101km	Flat

Vuelta a España: The jerseys

Jersey winners of the Vuelta A España 2024 (Image credit: Getty Images)

The red jersey of the Vuelta's general classification leader is now well established (it was previously gold, but changed in 2010). The leader of the mountains classification wears a polka-dot jersey, but its large blue spots mean it's very different to the one that riders in the Tour de France wear. The points leader's green jersey is lime green, while the jersey for best young rider (born after 1 January 1998), is white – familiar from the Tour de France.

There are other awards on offer as well, including the teams classification and a daily combativity award. Embellished jersey numbers, rather than jerseys, are on offer for this.

Vuelta a España 2025: The teams

2024 winner Primož Roglič celebrates with team Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe (Image credit: Getty Images)

There will be 24 teams riding the 2024 Vuelta a España, including all 18 WorldTour teams and five second-tier ProTeams.

Read our full guide to the Vuelta a España start list here.

Vuelta a España: Past winners

2024: Primož Roglič (Slo) Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe
2023: Sepp Kuss (USA) Jumbo-Visma
2022: Remco Evenepoel (Bel) Quick Step-Alpha Vinyl
2021: Primož Roglič (Slo) Team Jumbo-Visma
2020: Primož Roglič (Slo) Team Jumbo-Visma
2019: Primož Roglič (Slo) Team Jumbo-Visma
2018: Simon Yates (GBr) Mitchelton–Scott
2017: Chris Froome (GBr) Team Sky
2016: Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar Team
2015: Fabio Aru (Ita) Astana
2014: Alberto Contador (Esp) Tinkoff–Saxo
2013: Chris Horner (USA) RadioShack–Leopard