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Plan your cycling route

Calculate your ride with Bikemap's free planner and get detailed estimations.

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Planning a cycling route on a 3D map with Bikemap

Plan, visualize, and experience your ride

Bikemap’s route planner visualizes your route on a detailed map with multiple style options, including Night, Mountain Bike, OpenCycleMap, and a stunning 3D view. Choose the map style that best suits your ride.

Detailed statistics and elevation profile in the Bikemap route planner

Essential insights for your ride

Alongside the interactive map view, you’ll get key route insights at a glance: total distance, estimated duration, and elevation details, including ascent, descent and maximum elevation. The elevation profile gives you a clear idea of what to expect along the way.

Detailed info about way types and surfaces along the route in the Bikemap route planner

Surface & waytypes at a glance

You’ll also see information about the waytypes and surface types on your route – from smooth asphalt to gravel and natural tracks – so you can tailor your ride to your bike and preferences.

Planning a cycling round-trip with the Bikemap app

Just looking for quick inspiration?

The Loop Planner in the iOS and Android app instantly creates a ride starting from your current location. Choose your distance, direction, and routing style – whether you’re in the mood for road, gravel, or a relaxed cruise.

Routing options

Plan the perfect route for your ride

Our route planner offers a variety of routing options tailored to different riding styles, preferences, and bike types. Whether you’re looking for a fast-paced road bike experience, a relaxed ride with family, a smooth and safe commute, or an adventurous mountain ride, we’ve got you covered.

  • Woman on e-bike in the mountains

    E-Bike

    Includes more elevation and avoids steps which would require you to carry your bike.

  • Cyclist on a bridge in the city

    Cycling Paths

    Cycling lanes are prioritized over other roads as long as the detour is manageable.

  • Cyclist riding on a gravel trail

    Gravel Bike

    Favors gravel roads, forest tracks, and bike-friendly unpaved routes while avoiding traffic-heavy roads and impassable trails.

  • Family on a cycling tour

    Smooth Ride

    Prioritize your comfort and safety, avoids obstacles such as stairs, embedded rails, gravel, sand, cobblestones, and heavy traffic.

  • Cyclist on a trail in the mountains.

    Mountain Bike

    Enable unpaved terrain, mountain bike tracks and more elevation in your route.

  • Cyclist riding fast through the city

    Fastest

    Reduced amount of turns and shorter route.

  • Road bikers in a curve

    Road Bike

    Optimizes your journey for speed and efficiency. Unpaved roads will get avoided as much as possible.

  • Group of cyclists on a ride

    Popular

    Routes favoured by our cycling community based on our heatmap data.

  • Father and child riding with their bicycles tied together

    Balanced

    Cycling paths and streets with low traffic, avoids streets with speed limits above 50 km/h (31 mph).

Plan a multi-day tour

Visualize your entire journey

With Bikemap’s Tour Planner, you can map out your full tour from start to finish in a single, streamlined workflow. Split your route into daily stages, adjust them to your needs, and save the whole tour as a collection. Get combined stats, a full elevation profile, and a color-coded overview that makes each stage easy to follow.

All legs of a multi-day cycling tour in Bikemap plotted together on the map in different colors.

Take your route on a ride

What you can do with your planned route

Turn-by-turn navigation for cycling routes in the Bikemap App

Navigate on iOS and Android

Use turn-by-turn voice navigation on the Bikemap app for a seamless riding experience.

Map and detailed information of a cycling route in a compact Bikemap widget, which you can embed on your own website

Embed a widget

Embed your favourite Bikemap routes into your personal blog or website with Bikemap’s interactive widget and inspire your readers. You can find the embed option after saving your route.

Riding with a synchronized Bikemap route on a Wahoo bike computer

Sync with Garmin & Wahoo

Easily send your planned route to your Garmin or Wahoo device for on-the-go navigation on your bike computer. You can also edit your recorded rides directly in the Bikemap route planner.

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Printout of a Bikemap cycling route including map, description, statistics, images and custom areas

Print or export your route

Create a printable overview of your route to take as a backup or share with your community. Need more detail? Add extra pages to zoom in on key sections and highlight important segments of your ride. You can also download your route as GPX or KML to use with other apps, devices, or mapping tools.

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Bikemap Explained

Learn how to make the most of Bikemap with our step-by-step tutorial videos. From planning the perfect route to navigating like a pro, our Bikemap Explained series walks you through all the features you need to elevate your cycling experience. Watch and ride with confidence!

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