Paris-Roubaix weather forecast – Rainfall, wind, and temperature details for this Sunday’s races

Editor’s observe: Up to date Saturday 11 April, 2026

This 12 months’s editions of the boys’s Paris-Roubaix and Paris-Roubaix Femmes are each set to run in dry and heat circumstances, though a stiffening tailwind may spark the race into motion early on.

In recent times, the races have been held in dry climate, and this 12 months’s races are set to comply with the identical system.

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There was gentle rainfall on Saturday afternoon throughout the males’s groups presentation in Compiègne, however Sunday’s forecast solely reveals a really low likelihood of rainfall, regardless of vital cloud cowl.

There have been fears that stormy climate on Saturday may render the cobblestones nonetheless slippy by the center of Sunday, however the rain was lighter than anticipated and they’re anticipated to dry out by the point the riders attain them.

For the primary time, each races will happen on the identical day, with the ladies’s race transferring from Saturday to Sunday afternoon. Paris-Roubaix Femmes will run later within the afternoon than the boys’s race, ending at round 6:20 p.m. native time, an hour and a half after the boys’s peloton finishes.

In line with MeteoFrance, circumstances in Compiègne for the beginning of the boys’s race within the morning can be brilliant however cool at 10 levels Celsius. Heading additional north to Orchies, Roubaix, and the city of Denain, which hosts the beginning of the ladies’s race, the climate is forecast to be a lot the identical.

Racing over the cobbles and roads of Northern France is about to happen beneath 99% cloud cowl, in accordance with AccuWeather, with no rain within the present forecast because the likes of Mathieu van der Poel, Lotte Kopecky, and Tadej Pogačar head begin lists.

The wind forecast has modified considerably because the begin of the week, and it is now set to blow from the south west at round 20kph. That is broadly talking a tailwind, so it will likely be a quick race and any early splits that type have each likelihood of being decisive.

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