Glastonbury 2027 ticket prices will reach a record £408, including a £5 booking fee, when the festival returns from its fallow year, with general admission tickets going on sale at 09:00 BST on Sunday 4 October.
Organisers confirmed the dates via the festival’s official Instagram page. Tickets with coach travel go on sale two days earlier, at 18:00 BST on Thursday, 1 October. The £408 price represents an increase of £29.50 on 2025 levels and is the first time the festival has broken the £400 barrier.
The festival, which runs from 23 to 27 June 2027 and features more than 100 stages, was already the most expensive major music festival in the UK. Glastonbury said it would not be commenting further on the announcement.
Glastonbury 2027 ticket prices part of wider industry surge
The record price sits within a broader pattern. Analysis by BBC News found the cost of attending the UK’s major festivals has surged over the past decade, rising above the rate of inflation. Glastonbury’s own ticket prices have gone up by about £85, a 30% hike, over that period.
Parklife tickets have increased by around £69, or 71% in real terms, since 2013. Reading and Leeds saw a smaller rise over the same period, up by about £40, or 14%.
However, last weekend’s Reading and Leeds festival held prices at their 2025 level, with passes costing £325, rising to £361 with early-bird entry.
Price pressures across the sector have multiple causes, including increased energy and infrastructure costs and post-Brexit labour shortages. In 2023, Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis acknowledged it was a ‘challenging time’ for festival organisers. ‘We have tried very hard to minimise the increase in price on the ticket but we’re facing enormous rises in the costs of running this vast show, whilst still recovering from the huge financial impact of two years without a festival because of Covid,’ she said.
Fans wanting to attend must be registered in advance as part of an ongoing anti-tout campaign. An automatic queuing system operates on sale day, requiring fans to be online before the sale opens with a valid registration number.
Tickets typically sell out in under an hour, with thousands joining online queues simultaneously.
Headliners confirmed but names kept under wraps
The 2027 line-up has not been announced, though Eavis has confirmed three headliners are booked. Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s The Media Show, she was direct about at least one name not on the bill. ‘No, it’s definitely not Madonna, I’ll tell you that,’ she said. ‘But we have got three [other] headliners and we’re very excited about it, it’s all coming together really well.’
Madonna last headlined Glastonbury in 2013, according to NME, making the 2027 edition the first since that appearance that her name has circulated in rumour. Elle UK notes she has recently released Confessions II, her first full studio album since 2019 and a sequel to 2005’s Confessions on a Dance Floor, which had fuelled speculation about a possible appearance.
Others said to be in the mix include Harry Styles, Fontaines DC and Stevie Wonder. Taylor Swift’s name has also surfaced in rumour. When asked about the possibility of a Swift performance, Eavis laughed and said she did not want to discuss the line-up any further.
Swift has unfinished business with the festival. As BBC News reports, she was announced as a headliner for Glastonbury’s 50th anniversary in 2020, only for that year’s event to be cancelled entirely due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The festival last took place in 2025, with Olivia Rodrigo, The 1975 and Neil Young topping the bill. The 2026 edition was a scheduled fallow year.
Eavis has said the 2027 headliners are booked and the line-up is ‘coming together really well’, with a formal announcement expected in due course.
