Zwift Announces New 2026 Spring/Summer Roads, Features, Integrations

Zwift has just announced (most of) their slate of spring/summer 2026 announcements, which they call ‘This Time for Zwift’. This will include multiple announcements until their annual fall episode of the same name, usually in September.

Like last year, these announcements coincide with the Zwift Community Live event held for the second year here in Mallorca (Spain). The event is designed to be a gathering place for the Zwift community to ride outdoors, with updates on various products about Zwift, and for Zwift users to interact with product teams and other cycling celebrities.

In any case, here’s what’s coming in the next 5 months. Some items have just been launched (now with more details), some are coming in the coming weeks, and some are still months away.

New Streets of Paris are coming:

On June 26, Zwift will release a new route on the Paris map, adding to the famous Sacré-Cœur route that was unveiled as part of the 2025 Tour de France, as well as parts of the 2024 Paris Olympics. As part of the Olympics, this route quickly became a huge fan favorite, and now you’ll be able to ride it inside Zwift.

This will include 13KM of new tarmac and cobblestones, including the completion of the KOM at the Basilica, and three sections of the run with 10+ new routes.

Although Zwift hasn’t released the full map, I’ve seen the rough route, and it actually includes the former route to/from Sacré-Cœur, as well as the 2026 Tour de France route that takes a different route back to the Arc.

I teased the route of the Tour de France 2025 completely new pieces, previously new, and forever. I have grayed out the non-essential parts.

The existing Zwift map is the bottom section, a typical TdF finish loop. The entire top right is the Olympic route and the 2025 TdF. And then the 2026 piece is that little piece from the Arc, up to 17. Zwift says they will build a crapton of routes from these roads.

Either way, this will eventually take over the Paris map and give it life beyond the well-worn circuit. I would like to see them continue to expand this to other areas; there is only so much power.

Gravel Mountain:

Launched on April 6, there will be a new round of the monument only, in the “red stone area” as seen above/below. Zwift says the route will include very wide roads, corner turns, and more, and is specifically designed for gravel bikes (with the option to ride those bikes within the game). This is a short format circuit, designed for multiple loops.

The first opportunity to ride this will be from April 6 to May 3, as part of the Pas Normal Studios Racing Series (Pas Race Series). Note that this is a new route, but not a new road.

There will be two new routes between Gravel Mountain, which is within the Makuri Islands. There are also new gravel bikes coming, as part of a total of 13 new gravel/road/TT bikes (and 13 new wheels).

Custom Recommendation Engine Details:

This ‘Next Up’ feature has been rolling out gradually over the past several months, and is now available in English for all passengers. This was providing specific exercise recommendations based on a slide of ingredients, and as part of this, they revealed what went into powering those recommendations. Input from the spring includes:

– CTL
– Fitness Score
– Activities from third-party devices imported (mainly any outdoor bike / running, but not other types of cardio yet)
– What types of riding do you usually do on certain days (eg long rides on weekends)
– Your long-term estimates for 30 days and 90 days
– The terms you specify on Zwift
– Your FTP profile, and how that relates to all of the above

At this time, they do not look at third party programs connected to Zwift (eg, TrainerRoad), as instead they postpone that program (which means, if you have a day off from that program, maybe there is a good reason for it). For example, you can see below within my account, I have a TrainerRoad workout coming up today. I can bypass that by selecting ‘Tune’, but otherwise that’s what Zwift says I should do.

The important message here is that they see this as laying the foundation for things in the future.

In addition, from the end of April, they will be offering easy recommendations for outdoor riding. Zwift says they will continue to include your outdoor rides on the platform, now with the existing import of outdoor rides, but they look forward to encouraging you to ride outdoors at some point (and you still get credit for that from Zwift).

The details of this are not yet clear, but they say they will start supporting us, and increase over time. They are well aware that Strava’s latest potential boat in this regard, has not gone well.

Planning Ahead of the Week:

As part of this forward planning, from the end of April you will be able to add routes, workouts, and rides to your schedule for the next week using the Zwit Companion App. You can see a short animated example of this below, which shows how to navigate through these components.

At launch, the following types are supported:

– Cycling and running events
– Cycling Workouts
– Bike lanes
– Riding the Robopacer
– Challenge Activities (TdZ, Route of the Week, etc.)

In addition, any programmed workouts from a third-party platform will automatically appear as well, such as those from TrainerRoad or Xert.

Beyond Level 100:

From April, you will be able to skip level 100 for cycling, and from levels 30 to 50 for running. On the cycling side, there is no longer a definite ‘top’, but instead, it will go on forever. Zwift says they currently envision “many hundreds” of levels.

In context, if they look at all the Level 100 riders out there today, they expect it’s possible for someone to reach level 200 within a year, based on looking at the best people, but it sounds like that’s in the single digits for the total population.

Once someone reaches Level 100, they’ll get a small orange slash/symbol/line on their profile and a ‘Zwifters Nearby’ name tag in the game.

Note that everything in the game is unlocked from level 100, nothing else unlocks (eg, at level 125). In speaking with Zwift, it sounds like there has been a lot of internal discussion about how to handle not only the transition past level 100, but how the levels are beyond that. For the most part, they see getting to Level 100 as a major *milestone*, with lines above that. Since they didn’t want to create a situation for people below level 100 (many Zwifters) that would make it pointless to achieve Level 100.

Extended HUD Customization:

Zwift will be expanding its customizable workout HUD (separate from the standard HUD) in May, with a total of 13 biometrics to choose from in four customizable areas.

The adjustable metrics will be:

– Cadence (RPM)
– Medium Strength
– Heart rate (BPM)
– Caloric Energy (CAL)
– Weight Power (W/KG)
– Calories (KJ)
– Stress Points (SP)
– Core Temperature (DEG)
– Heat Strain Index (HSI)
– Weighted power (WP)
– Power balance (L/R)
– Average W/KG

Remember, this is all separate from your other default fields, including current power, target power, heart rate, time, distance, etc… And again, this is specified to be used in workout mode.

Garmin Scale Weight Sync:

This is fast, and technically it won’t be finished by summer, but Zwift is at least committed to it now. Zwift has confirmed that syncing weight from Garmin weight scales will be coming this (late) fall. This means you’ll be able to step on your Garmin Index Scale, and have it update your Zwift weight. (Side note: That scale is currently on sale).

In addition, Zwift also announced that they have released the existing synchronization of the Wings WiFi weight (which had a difficult life), and that by the end of next week, it should be completed to fill everyone’s data and it should work again going forward.

While one can argue all day about weight cheating and Zwift running, the premise here is actually more interesting than focusing on racing weight cheating. Ensures that features such as input to fitness trend tracking are fully aligned. Which means someone can have theoretically flat lines in power (watts), but lose weight equally at the same time. So, in reality, their watts/KG are increasing, but unless they were manually updating Zwift, Zwift may incorrectly think that they have stopped.

So, while yes, there are features here that could help with Zwift’s race balance, I get the feeling from Zwift that they are more interested in some long-term scenarios.

All in all, this is a big list of new things coming this spring/summer, and there’s a slate of other events/camps/etc that I don’t like to cover too much (I tend to focus on the software and hardware sides).

With that – thanks for reading!

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