Pálava: Pavlov → Klentnice
Climb · Czechia
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part of: The wine cellars of the Moravian trails
Pálava: Pavlov → Klentnice is a 5.3 km cycling climb averaging 2.2% (+141 m), rising from 242 m to 360 m in Czechia.
South Moravia's stand-in for a mountain: the region has no long climbs, so Road Classics built its closed-road race around this six kilometre rise, climbing it three times in 2024 and opening the 2025 course with it as the first timed segment.
5.3 km · +141 m · 2.2% avg · ~8.3% max · 242 → 360 m
Stats computed from OpenStreetMap and satellite elevation data — approximate.
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Gradient by colour: ● <3% ● 3–6% ● 6–9% ● 9%+
Where it bites
Steepest 500 m: 8.3% (km 0.3–0.8).
Road: paved throughout
| km | to | avg |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 302 m | 6.7% |
| 2 | 321 m | 1.7% |
| 3 | 332 m | 1.1% |
| 4 | 332 m | 0.0% |
| 5 | 344 m | 1.2% |
What it’s like to ride
The road out of Pavlov, one of the best known wine villages in South Moravia, climbs into the limestone Pavlovské vrchy at a little over 2%, which makes it a long steady drag rather than a climb you have to pace. Partway up it reaches Soutěska, the saddle that cuts the Děvín massif off from the hills to the southwest, inside the Děvín, Kotel and Soutěska national nature reserve: there is a rough parking area off the road, and the limestone walls above it are the most important wintering site for the wallcreeper in the country. Klentnice at the top is a small wine village under Děvín, at 549 m the highest of the Pálava hills, with the ruin of Sirotčí hrádek in the woods above it, on foot only since bikes are not allowed up to it. Coffee is easy here: Café Fara sits on the cycle route beside the church of St. George, with a large terrace and somewhere to leave the bike in sight of the table, and from the village the road bends on down to Mikulov.
History
The Cyklomaraton series used the Pavlov to Klentnice road for the closing hilly loop of its Pálava race, and at the 2015 edition the long route covered that loop twice, topping out by Klentnice before the fast descent back to Pavlov. Road Classics then made Pálava one of two new events for 2024, alongside Klínovec, after the series' one-off 2023 debut on Ještěd, and ran it on closed roads. Since South Moravia has no long mountain climbs, the organisers built a circuit course, which leaves the six kilometre rise from Pavlov to Klentnice carrying the race: the 143 km route in 2024 climbed it three times, and on 17 May 2025 it opened the 125 km course as the first timed segment, its steepest pitch listed as 8 % on the official profile and 9.7 % on Strava. Its racing record is amateur mass-start events, and that is the whole of it.
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Common questions
- How long and steep is Pálava: Pavlov → Klentnice?
- Pálava: Pavlov → Klentnice is a 5.3 km cycling climb averaging 2.2% (+141 m), rising from 242 m to 360 m in Czechia.
- Where is Pálava: Pavlov → Klentnice steepest?
- The steepest 500 m averages 8.3%, between km 0.3 and km 0.8 of the climb.
- What is the road surface like on Pálava: Pavlov → Klentnice?
- Pálava: Pavlov → Klentnice is paved throughout.