Stage 2 (Veszprém - Siófok, 178 km) 15 May 2025

Start: 15 May 2025 (Thursday) 11:50 (CET), Veszprém, Óváros (Oldtown) square
Finish: 16:00 (CET), Siófok, Fő/Main street
Elevation gain: 1244 m

Tour de Hongrie continues on 15 May with a stage around Lake Balaton. After the start in Veszprém, the peloton will reach the lakeshore at Csopak, then turn onto the second category climb of Tótvázsony, passing Balatonfüred and Tihany, before turning back from Nemesvámos to continue along the eastern basin. On reaching Siófok, the caravan turns south to Ságvár and Tab, then turns onto the Siófok finish straight from Zamárdi. The stage, which includes two categorised climbs and two intermediate sprints, can be made really unpredictable by the wind. Under optimal conditions, it could be a battle of the sprinters again.

The ’City of Queens’, Veszprém has hosted eight Tour de Hongrie starts, including four in the early 2000s. The last time the peloton started from the Old Town Square was in 2021.

Siófok welcomes the Tour for the 19th time, and although it has hosted several starts in recent years (2018-19, 2021, 2024), the last time a stage finish (excluding prologues) was held on the southern shore of Lake Balaton was in 2017. Slovenian Ziga Jerman won ahead of Scott Sunderland and Barnabás Peák in the ’Capital of Summer’.

Detailed route (Google Maps): HERE

Detailed route (GPX): HERE

Itinerary:

Road closures - Veszprém

Road closures - Siófok