HC Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France Alpes-de-Haute-Provence · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Col de Vars

South-eastern ascent from Tournoux

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Length: 11.8 km
Height gain: 751 m
Average: 6.4%
Steepest km: 10.5%
Summit altitude: 2109 m
Difficulty: 183

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Guillestre 19.4 km, 5.9% average, 1137 m height gain
Tournoux 11.8 km, 6.4% average, 751 m height gain

Elevation profile

1358 m → 2109 m Touch or hover to inspect

0–4% 4–6% 6–8% 8–10% 10–14% 14%+

Steepest km: km 8 at 10.5%

One short section looks like a survey error (hatched) — usually a tunnel or a bridge, measured from the terrain above or below the road. It is left out of the steepest-km figure.

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Climb analysis

Where the climbing is

0–4%: 3.5 km
4–6%: 0.5 km
6–8%: 2.8 km
8–10%: 2.8 km
10–14%: 2.3 km
14%+: 0.0 km

Hardest sustained

1 km · km 7.1–8.1: 10.5%
2 km · km 7.0–9.0: 10.2%
5 km · km 6.8–11.8: 8.9%

Time to the top

0h 55 at 3 W/kg · 70 kg rider + 8 kg bike, no wind

Kilometre by kilometre

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Km	Altitude	Gain	Gradient	Max
1	1375 m	+17 m	1.7%	4.4%
2	1435 m	+60 m	6.0% ? Includes a suspected survey error	30.4%
3	1456 m	+21 m	2.1%	17.6%
4	1507 m	+50 m	5.0%	8%
5	1583 m	+76 m	7.6%	11%
6	1652 m	+69 m	6.9%	9%
7	1672 m	+20 m	2.0%	5%
8	1777 m	+105 m	10.5%	11.8%
9	1876 m	+99 m	9.9%	11%
10	1963 m	+87 m	8.7%	10.8%
11	2041 m	+78 m	7.8%	9.6%
12	2109 m	+68 m	8.9%	9.4%