The 12 climbs we single out in Costa Blanca, sorted by elevation difference. Each one features on at least one of our routes.
15.38 km · 4.9% · 750 m of climbing · summit 1024 m (GPX)
You climb Tudons from the Finestrat side, and it is long: fifteen kilometres from the lowlands up to 1,026 metres.
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20.38 km · 3.6% · 729 m of climbing · summit 962 m (GPX)
Confrides is long and not steep: twenty kilometres at 3.
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7.88 km · 5.7% · 446 m of climbing · summit 476 m (GPX)
Vall d'Ebo is climbed from Pego, and it gives you little rest: almost eight kilometres sitting between four and seven per cent the whole way.
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8.28 km · 5.1% · 422 m of climbing · summit 843 m (GPX)
placement not confirmed against our own notes
El Collao sits inland west of Alcoi and is usually ridden together with Port de Benifallim, which follows immediately afterwards.
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3.73 km · 9.8% · 366 m of climbing · summit 405 m (GPX)
Cumbre del Sol starts at the Alcasar roundabout, and there is no warm-up: the first kilometre averages above eleven per cent, and the steepest hundred metres — over twenty — comes after just two hundred.
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14.6 km · 2.4% · 349 m of climbing · summit 598 m (GPX)
Bèrnia is not a climb in the ordinary sense.
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See this climb on its own page6.45 km · 5.4% · 347 m of climbing · summit 597 m (GPX)
You climb Coll de Rates from Parcent.
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4 km · 4.8% · 193 m of climbing · summit 257 m (GPX)
La Fustera sits just outside Calpe and is usually the first climb of the day.
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3 km · 6.4% · 192 m of climbing · summit 202 m (GPX)
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The road crosses the shoulder of the Montgo massif between Denia and Xabia — the massif itself rises to 753 metres, far above where the climb tops out, and the summit can only be reached on foot.
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3.35 km · 4.9% · 163 m of climbing · summit 543 m (GPX)
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This is the short climb out of the village of Vall d'Ebo, not the long one from Pego up to the pass — two different climbs with almost the same name.
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5.44 km · 4.8% · 275 m of climbing · summit 983 m (GPX)
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This is Confrides from the Benasau side, the shorter of the two — the long side comes up through the Guadalest valley — and the steepest section is the final kilometre and a half at around seven per cent.
5.96 km · 4.1% · 244 m of climbing · summit 776 m (GPX)
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Alto de Castell de Castells starts high in the interior already and is the gentlest climb in this corner, followed by the long descent towards Tarbena.