Ride Col du Galibier on your smart trainer

What the climb is like

The lower part follows a valley at a moderate gradient. After Plan Lachat the road turns into a series of switchbacks and gets steeper, and the final kilometre to the pass is the hardest of the climb.

How to ride it in Pedalsim

Col du Galibier is one of Pedalsim's built-in famous routes: open it from the button below, or under Famous routes in the app, and ride. Your trainer reproduces every change in its gradient as you climb, and the wind is the live weather at the climb, so a headwind on an exposed section feels like one.

Draw the route from Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne instead to ride the Télégraphe and the Galibier as one long effort.

Figures are approximate: sources measure the climb from slightly different points.

More climbs

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• Mont Ventoux, 21.5 km at 7.5%
• Stelvio Pass, 24.3 km at 7.4%
• Col du Tourmalet, 19.0 km at 7.4%
• Sa Calobra, 9.4 km at 7.0%