The Tour of Guangxi 2026 brings the men’s UCI WorldTour season to a close with six stages across southern China, from 13 to 18 October. The race takes the peloton through the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, where spectacular limestone karst formations, subtropical river valleys, agricultural plains and increasingly demanding hills create a constantly changing landscape. From the opening stages around Fangchenggang to the mountainous finale at Nongla Scenic Spot, the route combines opportunities for sprinters with terrain capable of deciding the general classification.
Around the Peloton follows the Tour of Guangxi 2026 stage by stage, uncovering the history, geography and cultural traditions of a region shaped by water, mountains and centuries of human settlement. Along the route, the journey explores the heritage of the Zhuang people, historic communities, traditional agriculture and the extraordinary geological processes responsible for Guangxi’s famous karst landscapes. Beyond the racing, the six stages reveal a lesser-known side of China, connecting modern cities and rural settlements with one of Asia’s most distinctive natural environments.
The Tour of Guangxi reaches its final day in Yizhou, where the previous stage ended among the river valleys and cultural traditions associated with Liu Sanjie. Over the following 170 kilometres, the race turns south through the interior of Guangxi…
For four days the Tour of Guangxi has travelled progressively deeper into western Guangxi, following waterways through karst basins, crossing the Youjiang valley, tracing underground rivers around Fengshan and finally reaching the immense engineered waters of the Hongshui around Tian’e.…
Stage 3 reached Bama after crossing one of the great geographical transitions of western Guangxi, descending from the high basin of Jingxi to the Youjiang before climbing back into the mountains. Stage 4 begins among those mountains and never truly…
Stage 2 spent its final kilometres climbing into Jingxi, reaching a high karst basin close to the Vietnamese frontier after an afternoon in which the landscape seemed steadily to rise around the race. Stage 3 begins at 748 metres above…
Stage 1 returned to Chongzuo after making a broad circle through the low karst country of the Zuo River. Stage 2 leaves that circle behind and points west, towards a landscape increasingly shaped by altitude, limestone and the proximity of…
The Tour of Guangxi begins in a corner of China where the landscape already seems to belong partly to another world. Chongzuo lies in the far southwest of the country, close enough to Vietnam for the frontier to have shaped…
