2004 UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships
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| Host city | Les Gets, France |
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| Date(s) | 8–12 September 2004 |
| Events | MTB: 12 Trials: 6 |
The 2004 UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships were held in Les Gets, a ski station in the French Alps, from 8 to 12 September 2004. The disciplines included were cross-country, downhill, four-cross, and trials. The event was the 15th edition of the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships and the 19th edition of the UCI Trials World Championships.
Julien Absalon won the Elite Men's Cross Country, the first of his five elite world titles. The bronze medal in the event was won by Thomas Frischknecht, the last of his seven medals in the category, the first of which having been his silver medal in the inaugural UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in 1990.
Reigning UCI World Cup and Olympic champion Gunn-Rita Dahle won the Elite Women's Cross Country, the second of her four elite world titles. She became the first and so far only woman to win the Olympic Games, UCI World Championship, and UCI World Cup in the same year. Alison Sydor won the bronze medal, the last of her ten medals in the event.
The Junior Men's Cross Country was won by future Olympic mountain bike champion and five-time elite world champion Nino Schurter, in front of Frenchmen Stéphane Tempier and Maxime Marotte.
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