Glastonbury Festival 2027
One of the world's largest and most iconic music festivals returns to Worthy Farm, June 23–27, 2027, after a 2026 fallow year
Glastonbury Festival returns to Worthy Farm in Somerset, June 23–27, 2027, following a scheduled 'fallow year' in 2026 — a deliberate break the festival takes periodically to let the farmland recover and give the local infrastructure and crew a rest, a practice unique among major festivals of this scale.
Quick facts
What makes Glastonbury different
Beyond its size (typically around 200,000 attendees across the full event), Glastonbury is genuinely unusual for a major festival in its variety — alongside the headline Pyramid Stage sits dozens of smaller stages and areas (the Park, Shangri-La, the Green Fields) covering everything from cabaret and spoken word to activism-focused spaces, meaning the festival experience varies enormously depending on which parts you spend time in, not just which headliner you came for.
Getting tickets
Glastonbury tickets are notoriously hard to get — registration (a one-time process confirming identity, required before you can buy) opens well ahead of the main sale, which typically happens in early-to-mid November the year before. Tickets for a festival this size selling out in minutes is a genuine, recurring phenomenon, not exaggerated hype — realistic planning starts with registering as early as it opens, not waiting until sale day.
Worthy Farm and the fallow year rewilding
Worthy Farm, the working dairy farm that hosts the festival, benefits from the fallow years partly for genuine land recovery reasons — organizers have used the 2025–2027 gap specifically to plant 30,000 trees as part of a rewilding project, reflecting Glastonbury's longer-running environmental focus (a headline priority since the 1990s, well before sustainability became standard festival marketing).
Practical tips
- —Register for a ticket account as soon as registration opens (well ahead of the November sale) — you cannot buy a ticket without having registered first, and this step alone catches a lot of first-timers off guard.
- —Tickets sell out within minutes of general sale — have your registration confirmed, payment details ready, and expect to be trying alongside hundreds of thousands of others at once.
- —Plan for genuinely unpredictable British summer weather — Glastonbury's infamous mud years are a real recurring possibility, not just festival lore; pack for both sun and rain.
- —Explore beyond the main Pyramid Stage lineup — much of what makes Glastonbury distinctive (the Park, Shangri-La, the Green Fields) has nothing to do with the headline acts.
