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Hautes-Alpes: cycling cols

14 cols, each with the distance, ascent and gradient of every climb, derived from the OpenStreetMap road network.

Where they are

Hardest first

Climbs ranked from hardest to easiest
Col Altitude Main climb Distance Gain Loss Gradient Difficulty Climbs
Col Agnel / Colle dell'Agnello 2,744 m Depuis Becetto (Italia) 33.7 km 1,919 m 39 m 5.7 % 12.2 Very hard 2
Col de Granon 2,413 m Depuis Briançon 14.4 km 1,143 m — 7.9 % 10.4 Hard 1
Col d'Izoard 2,361 m Depuis Briançon 18.6 km 1,188 m 36 m 6.4 % 8.5 Hard 2
Col de Vars 2,109 m Depuis Guillestre 21.4 km 1,248 m 43 m 5.8 % 7.9 Sustained 2
Col du Lautaret 2,058 m Depuis Le Freney-d'Oisans 27.3 km 1,265 m 133 m 4.6 % 5.8 Sustained 2
Col du Noyer 1,664 m Depuis Le Noyer 8.5 km 654 m — 7.7 % 5.7 Sustained 3
Col des Portes 1,835 m Depuis Le Bourg-d'Oisans 28.7 km 1,383 m 312 m 4.8 % 4.8 Moderate 1
Col de Montgenèvre - Colle del Monginevro 1,860 m Depuis Chiomonte (Italia) 35.0 km 1,296 m 158 m 3.7 % 4.6 Moderate 2
Orcières Merlette 1850 1,850 m Depuis Saint-Jean-Saint-Nicolas 14.9 km 735 m 27 m 4.9 % 4.2 Moderate 1
Col de Manse 1,270 m Depuis Gap 7.7 km 499 m — 6.5 % 3.5 Moderate 4
Col de l'Échelle 1,762 m Depuis Bardonecchia (Italia) 10.4 km 565 m 70 m 5.4 % 3.1 Moderate 1
Col du Festre 1,441 m Depuis Montmaur 13.5 km 592 m — 4.4 % 2.9 Moderate 2
Col Lebraut 1,110 m Depuis Rousset-Serre-Ponçon 4.3 km 311 m — 7.2 % 2.3 Easy 3
Col de Cabre 1,180 m Depuis Beaurières 9.4 km 447 m 11 m 4.8 % 2.2 Easy 2

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Ranked by the FIETS index of the main climb — the same index each page prints, with its formula.

How this index is calculated

FIETS index: Δaltitude² / (10 × distance) + max(0, summit altitude − 1,000) / 1,000, lengths in metres. How this index works (article in French)

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