Ticket prices have jumped for the Somerset festival following its fallow year
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After taking a fallow year in 2026, Glastonbury Festival has confirmed when tickets for next year’s event will go on sale. Tickets for the five-day festival will cost £408, including a £5 booking fee per ticket – an increase of £29.50 on the price in 2025.
The festival will take place from June 23 to 27, although organisers are yet to reveal who will headline the Pyramid Stage. Speculation is already mounting, with names including Harry Styles, Fontaines D.C., Taylor Swift and Stevie Wonder among those rumoured to be in the running.
Glastonbury tickets are notoriously difficult to secure, with the event typically selling out in less than an hour as thousands of hopeful festival-goers join online queues in a bid to get their hands on tickets.
In a post on the official Glastonbury Instagram page, organisers confirmed tickets bundled with coach travel will go on sale at 6pm on Thursday, October 1.
General admission tickets will then go on sale at 9am on Sunday, October 4.
Anyone hoping to attend Glastonbury must be registered in advance as part of the festival’s ongoing efforts to tackle ticket touting. Fans can check whether their registration is still valid on the festival’s website.
In recent years, Glastonbury has also introduced an automatic queuing system for the ticket sale. Fans hoping to buy tickets are advised to be online before the sale begins and will need a valid registration number to proceed.
Glastonbury takes place on a working dairy farm and the 900 acre site is home to the farm’s herds of cows when the festival isn’t taking place.
During the weekend of the festival around 200,000 people descend on the site and churn up the ground, so the fallow years allow the land time to recover.
On top of that, setting up the UK’s largest festival is a mammoth task, so organisers and everyone else involved in making it happen need a break too.
Previously, festival founder Michael Eavis suggested the festival could move to a different location during the fallow years to allow Worthy Farm to recover without having to cancel the event altogether.
In 2016, he told the BBC he had found a site “towards the Midlands” that could be used as an alternative location. He said: “I’m arranging to move the show [but] it would be a huge loss to Somerset if it went there forever.”
However, there has been no word from organisers since on whether the idea is still being considered.
Michael’s daughter Emily Eavis, who is now the festival’s organiser, had previously said any event away from Worthy Farm would not bear the Glastonbury name.
