The 2024 Tour de Suisse is underway as the build-up to the Tour de France gets in full swing this June alongside the recently concluded Critérium du Dauphiné.
It's the 87th edition of the week-long stage race running from June 9-16, which this year opened with a time trial, before a torrent of savage mountain stages precede the final mountain TT conclusion.
The big names on show this week include Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadiers), Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek), Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates) and Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost).
A host of other major names are also competing at the race and you can read our in-depth analysis of the Tour de Suisse favourites for the best preview of the racing this week.
Cyclingnews will be bringing you full reports, results, news, interviews, and analysis throughout the race. Read on to find out how to watch the 2024 Tour de Suisse via live stream, no matter your location, with NordVPN.
Overall route map for 2024 Tour de Suisse (Image credit: Tour de Suisse)
How to watch the Tour de Suisse for free
The 2024 Tour de Suisse will be aired for free in Switzerland via SRF.
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If you live or are on holiday there, then enjoy the week of racing with no subscription fees to pay. However, if you're away from home on holiday during the racing then it's possible to keep up with the racing without resorting to shelling out for a local streaming subscription.
A VPN could solve your problem, and we have all the information on how to watch the action using a VPN below.
How to watch the Tour de Suisse in the USA & Canada
The 2024 Tour de Suisse will be aired live and on-demand by FloBikes in the USA and Canada, meanwhile. A subscription to the streaming service will set you back $150 for the year or $29.99 on a monthly basis.
How to watch the Tour de Suisse in the UK
In the UK, live coverage of the 2024 Tour de Suisse will be broadcast via Eurosport and Discovery+.
A 'standard' subscription to Discovery+, which includes Eurosport's cycling coverage, will set you back £6.99 per month or £59.99 per year. The package includes year-round cycling streams as well as other live sports, including snooker, tennis, motorsports, the Paris Olympic Games, and more.
A premium subscription, which includes all that plus TNT Sports (Premier League, Champions League and Europa League football plus rugby, wrestling, UFC, and MotoGP) costs an additional £29.99 per month.
Watch live cycling on any streams
If you are outside of your home region and need to access your live streaming services to watch the action, you may find your access to be geo-restricted.
In this case, a VPN service will come in handy, allowing your computer to pretend it's home and let you log into your streaming accounts to catch all of the racing action.
Our colleagues at TechRadarthoroughly tested several VPN services and came up with a few great recommendations below.
1. NordVPN - get the world's favorite VPN We've put all the major VPNs through their paces and we rate NordVPN as the best for streaming Netflix as our top pick, thanks to its speed, ease of use and strong security features. It's also compatible with just about any streaming device out there, including Amazon Fire TV Stick, Apple TV, Xbox and PlayStation, as well as Android and Apple mobiles.
There are a couple other very good options that are safe, reliable and offer good bandwidth for streaming sports. Check out two other top options below - ExpressVPN and the best budget option, Surfshark.
2. Try ExpressVPN risk-free for 30 days ExpressVPN offers a 30-day money back guarantee with its VPN service. You can use it to watch on your mobile, tablet, laptop, TV, games console and more. There's 24/7 customer support and three months free when you sign-up.
Currently topping our charts as the fastest VPN around, Surfshark keeps giving us reasons to recommend it. It's a high-value, low-cost option that's easy to use, full of features, and excellent at unblocking restricted content.
With servers in over 100 countries, you can stream your favorite shows from almost anywhere. Best of all, Surfshark costs as little as $2.30 per month, and it comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee to try it out.
Peter Stuart has been the editor of Cyclingnews since March 2022, overseeing editorial output across all of Cyclingnews' digital touchpoints.
Before joining Cyclingnews, Peter was the digital editor of Rouleur magazine. Starting life as a freelance feature writer, with bylines in The Times and The Telegraph, he first entered cycling journalism in 2012, joining Cyclist magazine as staff writer. Peter has a background as an international rower, representing Great Britain at Under-23 level and at the Junior Rowing World Championships.
