Glastonbury Festival 2027

Glastonbury 2027 runs Wednesday 23 June to Sunday 27 June 2027 — five full days at Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset, run by Michael and Emily Eavis and their team. Gates open Wednesday lunchtime; the Pyramid Stage headliners go on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evening.

There is no Glastonbury Festival in 2026. The Eavis family rests the land roughly every five years so the dairy farm can recover, the livestock can return to the fields, and the local Somerset villages of Pilton, Pylle and West Pennard get a quiet summer. 2026 is a fallow year — the next edition is 2027.

Worthy Farm is about a 2.5-hour drive from London and 30 minutes from Bath, in the Mendip district of Somerset. The nearest train station is Castle Cary, about 15 minutes by shuttle. The festival site covers around 900 acres and holds roughly 210,000 ticket-holders, crew, performers and staff combined.

Official 2027 prices have not been confirmed by the organisers yet. As a guide, Glastonbury 2025 general admission cost £378.50 plus a £5 booking fee — £383.50 total — including five nights of camping. Expect 2027 to be slightly higher to track inflation; £400–£420 inclusive is the realistic range to plan for.

Payment is split: a £75 deposit is taken when you book in October/November 2026, with the balance due in April 2027 before the resale. Miss the balance payment and your seat goes back into the resale pool — that's the second-chance window for everyone who missed the main sale.

Kids under 13 are free with an accompanying ticket-holder (no ticket needed, but a wristband is collected at the gate). Teens 13-17 need a full ticket. Family-friendly Kidzfield runs throughout the weekend.

• •2025 face value (for context): £378.50 + £5 booking = £383.50
• •Estimated 2027 face value: £400–£420 inclusive
• •Deposit: £75 at booking (Oct/Nov 2026)
• •Balance: due in April 2027 (~£325–£345)
• •Under-13s: free (no ticket needed, wristband at gate)

Glastonbury runs two ticket sales for 2027 and one resale:

• •Coach + Ticket package — late October 2026 (typically a Thursday evening, 6pm UK time). Sells out in 30 minutes or less. Combines a return National Express coach from one of 70+ UK pickup points with a festival ticket.
• •General admission ticket only — Sunday morning, late October / early November 2026 (typically 9am UK time, four days after the coach sale). The classic 'sell-out in under an hour' moment.
• •Resale — April 2027. Tickets released by holders who couldn't pay the balance. Two waves: coach + tickets first (usually a Thursday evening), then general tickets (usually the following Sunday morning). This is the single best second chance.

You must register on the official Glastonbury Festival website BEFORE the sale opens. Registration is free but mandatory — without a registration number you can't even reach the booking page.

You need: a current postal address, a passport-style photograph against a plain background, and a valid government-issued photo ID for the same person. Each ticket-holder has their own registration. Registrations from previous years carry over but must be re-verified.

On sale day: have your registration number, the registration numbers of everyone in your group (up to 6 tickets per booking), your payment card and a stable connection. The official seller is See Tickets — only buy from glastonburyfestivals.co.uk links. Anything else is a scam.

• •Register at glastonburyfestivals.co.uk — free, mandatory, photo ID required
• •Re-verify if you registered for a previous year
• •Have all group members' registration numbers ready before sale day
• •Up to 6 tickets per booking; one card pays for all
• •Official seller: See Tickets — anyone else is a scam

The Coach + Ticket package sells before the general sale. Demand is enormous but supply is meaningful — and crucially, you avoid the Friday morning car-park gridlock that loses regulars hours of festival time.

How it works: you book a return National Express coach from your chosen UK pickup point (London Victoria, Bristol, Manchester, Edinburgh, Cardiff, etc — 70+ options) combined with your festival ticket. The coach ticket is sent in advance; your festival wristband is given to you on the coach on the way down. Travel on your booked coach is mandatory — you can't skip it and arrive separately.

Cost: a few pounds more than the standalone ticket, depending on your pickup point. Sells out faster than the general sale: prepare like it's the main event.

If you missed the autumn sales, the April 2027 resale is your real second chance. It's a genuine resale, not a 'few extra tickets' release — anyone who didn't pay their balance by the deadline forfeits their seat, and those seats are pooled and re-sold.

Two windows, same as the main sales: Coach + Ticket first (Thursday evening in mid-April), General tickets second (the following Sunday morning). The resale typically clears in under 90 minutes.

TicketHunter runs a free watchlist for this exact moment: enter your email below and we'll email you 24 hours before the resale opens, then again the minute it goes live. No alarm-setting, no Twitter doomscrolling. (Note: the resale runs through the official See Tickets site — we don't resell Glastonbury tickets ourselves; we can't. They're non-transferable. See the FAQ below.)

There is no legitimate 'cheap' Glastonbury 2027 ticket — every ticket is photo-verified, the same face value applies to all standard sales, and any 'discount' offer outside the official channels is a scam. That said, here are the real cheapest options:

• •Standard ticket via the deposit scheme — £75 down at booking spreads the cost over 5–6 months and is the lowest cash outlay to lock in a seat.
• •Volunteer with Oxfam, WaterAid or Greenpeace — they offer free festival tickets in exchange for ~24 hours of stewarding/awareness shifts. Applications open spring 2027 on each charity's website. This is the genuine free route.
• •Work at the festival — staff and crew get free entry. Roles like bar, stewarding, glass collection, catering and litter-picking open through various agencies in early 2027.
• •Coach + Ticket from your nearest pickup — saves you fuel, parking (£40+) and a hire car. Comes in slightly cheaper net than driving for most groups.
• •Travel with a tent already owned + cook your own food — Glastonbury food is brilliant but a £15+/day add-on. Bringing a stove and ambient food cuts the on-site cost dramatically.

If you missed the main sales, can't volunteer, and want a guaranteed bed, hospitality and glamping are the remaining legitimate options:

• •Pop-Up Hotel — pre-pitched tents, yurts, cabins, restaurants and bars in a private compound a short walk from the festival site. Prices £1,500–£8,000+ per person for the weekend.
• •Yurtopia, Hospitality Worthy View, Camp Kerala — similar premium accommodation partners. Most release their 2027 packages from September 2026.
• •Glampotel, GlampHouseUK and a handful of off-site partners offer mid-range options. Always check that the package includes a festival ticket — many list 'tickets to be confirmed' and you still need to win the main sale.

Every Glastonbury ticket carries a photograph of the registered holder. At the gate, your wristband is fitted only if your face matches the photo on your ticket. There is no transferring the ticket to someone else — not for free, not by sale, not by 'swapping registration numbers'.

This is deliberate. It is why Glastonbury has no real touting market, why the deposit-scheme cancellation pool is the official resale, and why the festival keeps general-admission prices reasonable while major festivals elsewhere creep towards £600+.

What this means for TicketHunter: we don't resell Glastonbury tickets. We can't — they're not legally transferable. What we do offer is a free watchlist that emails you the moment the official April 2027 resale opens, so you don't miss the second-chance window. If you want fan-to-fan ticket resale for other major UK festivals (Reading, Leeds, Boomtown, Latitude, Wireless, Parklife), we cover those — see the related events below.

If both autumn sales sell out before you got through, the April resale is your real next chance — set the watchlist on this page. If you miss that too, here's the honest playbook:

• •Volunteer applications open in spring 2027 (Oxfam, WaterAid, Greenpeace).
• •Try staffing roles via DC Site Services, Festaff and similar agencies.
• •Check the Pop-Up Hotel and Yurtopia hospitality wait-lists — late releases happen.
• •Look at comparable UK festivals — Reading & Leeds (last weekend of August), Boomtown Fair (August, Hampshire), Latitude (July, Suffolk), End of the Road (September, Dorset), All Points East (August, London).
• •Set a watchlist on TicketHunter for any of the above — we email the moment a verified fan lists tickets.