Today, Zwift launches a Paris map expansion, and a big Tour Fever ride series to go with it! Read on to learn all about the new roads, routes, and real-life sites you can find in Zwift’s expanded Paris…
New Roads
The addition replicates the expanded finishing circuit which debuted at the 2025 Tour de France, while also adding a stretch of the Boulevard Malesherbes and Rue Royale, and a quick circuit around La Madeleine. All of the roads in the expansion are replicas of IRL roads, and many IRL landmarks can also be seen.
Here’s a full map of Zwift’s updated Paris, so you can get your bearings:
Notably, the three new sprints and the new Montmartre KOM are all one-way segments. There are also significant stretches of one-way road, including the full Montmartre climb/descent loop.
All in all, if we include usable lanes in our calculations (so a 2-way road counts as twice the length of a 1-way road), this expansion adds ~13.4 kilometers of road, which more than doubles the rideable roads in Zwift’s Paris.
New Routes
Today’s launch includes 10 new routes: 8 for riders+runners, and 2 which are run-only. Here’s the full list (click route name for details):
- Crêpe Escape (currently event only)
- 16.4km // 113m
- A single lap of iconic Champs-Élysées before the punchy Montmartre climb.
- La Boucle (currently event only)
- 16.0km // 118m
- This loop almost perfectly matches the finishing circuit of the Tour, taking riders around Champs-Élysées and over the Montmartre climb.
- Paris Toujours
- 69.2km // 448m
- Basically three laps around the Champs-Élysées and another three laps of Crêpe Escape.
- Heart of Montmartre
- 74.5km // 500m
- Three figure-8 laps of the Champs-Élysées, then another three laps combining the Champs-Élysées and the Montmartre KOM via the Monceau Sprint.
- Double Espresso (currently event only)
- 30.5km // 222m
- Covering all the new roads in both directions, including two times up the Montmartre.
- Montmartre Mixer
- 25.2km // 190m
- Stay on the flatter roads of Paris for the first half, then head to Montmartre for two quick visits to Sacré-Coeur.
- Loop de loop de loop
- 7.2km // 36m
- A single, flatter loop that contains three tiny loops.
- Cirque du Suffer
- 20.9km // 29m
- This one is silly, but we love it! Around and around we go, 50 laps of the Arc de Triomphe with a sprint finish!
- Rues in Rythme (Run Only)
- 5.0km // 34m
- A short 5km run through the heart of Paris
- Paris Pacer (Run Only)
- 11.0km // 79m
- Run up to Montmartre.
New Segments
The expansion adds Paris’ first KOM segment, and three new one-way sprint segments:
- Montmartre KOM: 4.2% 1.2km
- Église Sprint 250 meters at 0%
- Tchou Tchou Sprint 150 meters at -0.2%
- Monceau Sprint 300 meters at -0.2%
Siteseeing
The centerpiece of Zwift’s Paris expansion is the Montmartre climb, and the Basilique du Sacré-Coeur de Montmartre perched at its peak:
As you ride along the road below Sacré-Coeur, look right for a panoramic view of Paris, and understand why this is the second-most visited tourist site in the city after the Eiffel Tower (which you can see over your right shoulder).
There are many distinctive buildings, monuments, and other features that will feel familiar if you’re a regular in this part of Paris. Key sites include Église Saint-Augustin, the venerable Église Saint-Pierre de Montmartre, La Madeleine, Parc Monceau, and more:
Questions or comments?
Watch this space, as we’ll be publishing detailed homepages for each new Paris route and segment in the coming days.
Got questions or comments about this expansion? Share below!
I saw Eiffel Tower 😁
It’s been there since the beginning of Paris map. It’s easily seen when leaving the pens area or crossing the heading of the pens departure road.
he’s new
I’m looking forward to checking the new route out because the Paris course is/was the least appealing course to me.
kinda still is. it seems like a very lazy expansion to me.
Dan – agreed. What an amazing waste of the artists’ time as well as the coding resources. What was Eric thinking? I will be surprised if anyone rides this new expansion over 1 or 2 times.I love Paris and will see Montmartre many more times (IRL) but never again on Zwift. With all the possibilities for new connectors they could have easily added to Watopia or even opening up a expansion at the base of Mt Fuji, to spend their resources on the dull ‘Paris map’ borders on ‘silly’. Here is a simple idea: have Zwift HQ let Zwifter’s take a vote on what they want next. It does not have to be open-ended, just have Eric and Co. give us three – five things they could add to the platform, and by popular vote the top two will be given the ‘green-light’ to become the next addition(s). Doing what paying customers most want is not hard to figure out.
Their response is always going to be the same. “Shut up and pay our outrageous subscription fee.” That is just reality. Try Training Peaks Virtual. They actually listen to their users and I am paying $8.92 a month u.s. No gamification, chatting if you want it, but if can ride and chat you aren’t riding hard enough. You can import your courses too, not dumb downed versions, the actual .gpx you recorded. They don’t even have a site that is nothing more than a shill for them.
“Cirque du Suffer” might be my favourite thing that Zwift have ever done 😂
Right?!
I figured the sadism would be “Full P(aris)RL” = 24 laps of Champs and then Montmarte. I copyright the concept 🙂
So Eric likes this well let me guess he will have a tiny race night on this course 5,10,15 & 20. What a night of racing. Shouldn’t give you ideas but the little mountain montmarte would also be a tiny series.
Lollipop from Hell!
Finally (after many years of waiting and hoping) we have a Velodrome (aka Cirque du Suffer) 😂
I’ve done Deca Dash and the 25 laps of Volcano, so I definitely need to add this one to my palmares asap. 😜
If Coco goes there it will be crowded with the junk miles regulars, spending hours on routes like Tempus every day. 🤪🫣
Cirque du Suffer: finally we have a Velodrome! 😋
why one-way? don’t get it.
Should include the famous Longchamp track to the Paris map and also Polygone
Am I understanding this correctly by counting both directions of the new roads to the total? Really? Just be honest with the actual new road length instead of trying to make it seem longer.
Agreed, I don’t think this is the most helpful way to present this info and does come across as an attempt to inflate the numbers. This was the most significant map expansion discussed in the Zwift Season preview, and it is roughly ~5 miles of new roads?
Not trying to inflate anything. Just trying to state the facts as clearly as possible so you can compare the new road length to the old in Paris.
I’m not sure what you’re proposing as an alternative to the way I’ve measured things, but here’s an example of how this gets tricky: the entire Montmartre section is one way (CCW) and around 3.3km long. Are you proposing that I count it as 6.6km?
Yes, I suppose this method “inflates” the overall stated length of new roads, but since I used the same method to compute the length of existing roads, the overall percentage increase is accurate.
It’s tricky, because just stating the length of roads, without stating whether they’re one-way or two-way, would be easier. But a single one-way road really isn’t “worth” the same in Zwift as a two-way, is it?
I am proposing you claim the new addition as being 8.1 kms, if I just measured it correctly. If I recall correctly when we go the Watopia coast line expansion it was not announced as 38 kms of new routes because you can ride out 19 kms and back 19 kms
I have a 30 mile one way commute to work. I don’t count that as 60 miles one way because people travel in the opposite direction.
That is my point.
In my opinion, the addition is pretty nice. It is the new routes that are truly atrocious.
The absolute over use of going in circles and loop for two 70 kms routes is absolutely non sense.
Yeah, the expansion adds around 8.1km of road to Paris, if you don’t take into account whether a road is one-way or two-way.
But if you do that, and compare your 8.1km figure to the old Paris roads (a 6.6km loop) it makes it sound like Paris is actually getting more new roads (in terms of percentage increase) than they actually are (a 122% increase, vs a ~100% increase if you do the math the way I did it).
Look, I get it. I considered computing it both ways, because that does make more logical sense, when the existing world is all two-way roads and the expansion is all two-way roads (like the Watopia Southern Coast you mention.)
But I opted to do it the way I did, along with a clear note explaining how I did it, because I felt like that was the clearest way to present it.
I am looking at the actual new roads added to the world.
8.1 kms is less than the 13.4 kms stated in the article making it seem like we got another 5 kms of new roads to ride.
I do not see it as being clear. I see it as trying to make it sound bigger and better.
Essentially, we got a 5 km loop connecting the ends of the existing Champs-Élysées with a 3.3 one way climb loop.
Thanks for reminding me to not read comments…
You are welcome.
Your work is greatly appreciated. It’s my way to learn any zwift news, and, I must say, my favorite way…
Thanks Eric. Appreciate all you do and my comment is really just years of frustration with the pace of Zwift development. “Coming for the 2026 Season of Zwift – Almost five miles of new roads!!”
In a recent article you mentioned the number of Zwift employees, which was shocking. Between the quality control issues and the insanely slow development, as an outsider I would have guessed the dev team was a single summer intern with a $20/mo Claude subscription.
Expectations for a Paris expansion based on earlier chatter definitely not met with this announcement. How many miles/kms to the new Montmartre roads? Paris was boring before Montmartre and isn’t much improved with it. Last year’s France expansion was much, much better.
Once I’ve done the route badges I won’t be hurrying back!
Exactly
The graphics look decent though not spectacular but why not merge Paris and France into 1 big world!?
I believe the problem arises with how things are geotagged IRL. Merging maps would be very problematic.
Yeah, the geotagging is one thing and prob can’t be changed given how everyone uploads everything everywhere. I agree with you on the merging of the maps – these seem to be distinct, immutable worlds in the codebase.
I do wonder if they could implement portals like the Climb portal to move between regions. Still don’t allow teleports between regions but let you ride to a portal and switch on the same ride.
Do I see correctly that Tempus Fugit is no longer the flattest track in length, but Cirque du Suffer?
Going in a tight circle for 50 laps isn’t my idea of an entertaining ride. But then I don’t race so maybe that would make it more satisfying. (If I did race, that is.) and although I do like a variety of surfaces under normal conditions on my TACX Neo 2, there is too much cobble for me. I found myself longing for smooth pave after 45 minutes on the Monmartre Mixer last night.I did b adge but if I badge the rest of Paris I probably won’t be back. Appreciate the efforts 👏👏👏 but the routes aren’t for my style of riding.
Petition to add this to the France map as a analog to watopia with Paris as the “downtown”/ a place for hot laps.
Underwhelming, only 8km of new roads and released more than a week late.
And the Paris map was only available 4 days last month, they need to make all maps available all the time if they are going to add new roads to minor worlds
So many downers. New roads, new scenery, new routes, new badges.
folks can never just enjoy things.
no body hates zwift more that the losers that comment on this page
Not true, I commented with my “review” of my first ride on the new streets.I love Zwift but don’t race due of a L&I accident nearly 10 years ago that left me with nerve damage but still riding as much as possible, 100+ miles per week.. I have a fair amount of endurance for long rides but a low ceiling for w/k. So I ride for fun! Last night’s ride just wasn’t fun for me.
I like the expansion and think its been done well. Montmartre Mixer will be an excellent Ladder racing route, for sure. Cirque du Suffer is truly ridiculous and really didn’t need to happen… I see Paris getting further expansions in the future, very much like NY. All in all, nicely done.
Cirque du suffer might work great as a mass group ride in which you’d always be drafting in the pack and then finish based on how hard you had worked. Could get lonely for the stragglers, incentive for them to push a bit more.
Hey Eric. I see we’re using some of these for VO2sday. Will all rides start from the same pen and then go in the same direction?
Same pens. Different directions!
Will the new routes be added to zwift hub ? @Eric Schlange
Eventually, yes!
I love the graphic rendering – love the view – perhaps I’m easily pleased but I think this is a good expansion and I enjoyed riding two ot the new routes today.
Nice! This is a hybrid between the 2025 Tour and 2026 Tour versions, each of which had more out-and-back. This combines them to reduce the out-and-back and get more sightseeing.
Looks like a good expansion from Zwift. The racing in Montmartre Mixer today was interesting and challenging. Looking forward to the other routes too. Thanks Eric for your work on the site.
This is cool and all, but can we see John Wick up on Sacré-Coeur??? At least give me Winston…
What’s not to like? The original Champs-Elysees loop has been expanded to give the 2025 and 2026 finishing circuit options. When did anyone ever expect the update to be different given the relationship Zwift have with the event? There’s some great racing options now, rather than a fairly mundane up and down drag.
Did double espresso yesterday in a group ride. Always nice to have new real map routes, instead of imaginary ones like makuri islands , Scotland or watopia.
I actually like the new expansion; the added roads make Paris much more interesting. I rode the Montmartre Mixer route and I enjoyed it.
Edit – they are event only, everyone can ignore this. Sorry.
For some reason I can’t figure out, 3 of the bike routes don’t show up for me. I’m missing Crepe escape
La boucle
Double espresso
All 5 of the other new routes show up fine.
Those three are currently “event only” routes.
Cirque du Suffer is the most boring route ever created by Zwift
Best done while doing a workout.
I see these new routes have been added to Veloviewer Leaderboards which is great but there are still a few new routes which didn’t make it onto the Leaderboards
Three Step Sisters
Hudson Hustle
Cobbled Crown
Peaky Parve
Kaze Kicker
Yumezi Grit
The Epiloch
Plus these 3 Rebel Routes:
Magical Mystery Spinner Tour
Lap It Up (Watopia)
Lap It Up + Jungle After Party
Magical Mystery Spinner Tour was created to hit all the time limited spinners that are no longer around so I’d be fine with not including it.
i agree, I’ve included it for completeness.
After looking at the routes more closely on Veloviewer there are three event only routes that are included on leader board:
Crepe Escape
Double Espresso
La Boucle
Normally Event Only routes aren’t included so ideally these should be removed.
They are just event only so you can’t ride them before their week of events for the Tour Fever events. They get set to normal as soon as that week comes.