Glastonbury confirms ticket sale dates – and highest ever price
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Glastonbury Festival has confirmed that tickets for its 2027 event, running from 23 to 27 June, will go on sale in October, with weekend passes costing a record £408 including booking fee – the first time the festival has broken the £400 barrier. This follows a fallow year in 2026 and comes as festival organiser Emily Eavis has ruled out speculation that Madonna will headline, while confirming three headline acts have already been settled, though names remain undisclosed amid rumours ranging from Harry Styles and Fontaines DC to Taylor Swift and Stevie Wonder.
Coach travel tickets go on sale at 18:00 BST on Thursday 1 October, with general admission following at 09:00 BST on Sunday 4 October; buyers must be pre-registered and use an automatic online queuing system to combat touting. The £408 price marks a £29.50 rise on 2025 and roughly a 30% increase over the past decade, smaller than Parklife's 71% real-terms rise but larger than Reading and Leeds' 14% – the latter having held its 2025 price of £325 (£361 with early-bird entry) this year. Eavis has previously cited rising running costs and the lingering financial impact of two pandemic-hit years as drivers of the increases.
- Glastonbury 2027 tickets go on sale in October, priced at record £408
- First time festival has broken the £400 ticket barrier
- Eavis denies Madonna will headline; three headliners already confirmed
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Glastonbury is one of the UK's biggest music festivals, held on farmland in Somerset and typically attracting around 200,000 people over five days each summer. It runs most years but takes a "fallow year" break periodically to let the land and local infrastructure recover, which is why there was no festival in 2026. Emily Eavis, daughter of festival founder Michael Eavis, now runs the event and is responsible for booking the headline acts and setting policy.
Tickets are famously hard to get hold of, selling out within minutes each year despite the high price, and the festival uses a registration and online queuing system partly to stop tickets being resold by touts at inflated prices. The cost of a weekend ticket has been rising steadily for years, a trend also seen at other UK festivals, and organisers have pointed to higher running costs and the financial hit of festivals being cancelled during the Covid pandemic as reasons behind the increases.
Headline acts are traditionally kept secret until closer to the event, which fuels months of public speculation and betting on who might top the bill. This mix of high demand, rising prices and headliner secrecy is a recurring feature of the festival's build-up each year, making ticket announcements and price changes a regular point of media and public interest.
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