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Glastonbury returns after its 2026 fallow year for Wednesday 23 to Sunday 27 June 2027 at Worthy Farm. The organiser has published the full-weekend price — £408 including a £5 booking fee — and states that only See Tickets is authorised to sell.
01 · Event details
Timing: 23–27 June 2027 · Worthy Farm, Pilton
Venue or host area: Worthy Farm, Pilton, in Somerset. The site is farmland with the Pyramid Stage at its centre, surrounded by camping fields; the marker shows the village area, not a gate or a campsite.
Access: General admission full-weekend tickets are £408 including a £5 booking fee, plus postage and packing, and registration is required before purchase. The organiser states that only See Tickets is authorised to sell, and that cancelled or returned tickets will be resold in spring 2027. No current availability was verified.
02 · Plan the visit
Glastonbury requires registration before tickets can be bought, and the organiser says a resale of cancelled and returned tickets will follow in spring 2027. Coaches and shuttle services run from several cities, and arriving by car means a long walk from the car parks with your kit. The festival is exposed farmland: rain, mud and heat are all normal, and the site is hilly enough that footwear and a trolley matter more than they sound.
03 · Location
A village in the Somerset levels near Glastonbury, where Worthy Farm sits on rolling dairy country rather than beside a city.
The airports serving Pilton, Somerset and its region:
Connections, terminals and transfer arrangements change — confirm them with the airline and the organiser rather than planning around a fixed transfer time.
Worthy Farm, Pilton, in Somerset. The site is farmland with the Pyramid Stage at its centre, surrounded by camping fields; the marker shows the village area, not a gate or a campsite.
The catalogue marker shows Pilton, United Kingdom at city or region level only — it is not an entrance, a gate, a course or a transfer route. For the event’s position among its category peers, open the Music overview and map.
04 · Overview
A five-day performing arts festival on farmland at Worthy Farm in Somerset, with the Pyramid Stage as its centrepiece and dozens of smaller stages, fields and venues around it — the Other Stage, West Holts, the Park, the Green Fields, the circus and theatre tents, and the Arcadia spider. Around 200,000 people including crew live on the site, and most of them camp.
Glastonbury is the biggest greenfield music festival in the world and the one with the deepest cultural footprint: the Pyramid Stage headline slot is treated as a career landmark, and the site's non-music areas are as much the point as the bill. It also gives millions to charity each year, with Oxfam, WaterAid and Greenpeace among the long-standing partners, and the BBC's coverage makes it the most watched festival in Europe.
Michael Eavis ran the first festival in 1970, the day after Jimi Hendrix died, with about 1,500 people and a ticket price of one pound. It grew through the 1980s and 1990s, moved to a licensed, fenced model in 2002 after years of unauthorised entry, and has sold out within minutes for most editions since. Fallow years are built in to let the farm recover — 2018 and 2026 among them.
| First held | 1970 |
|---|---|
| Site | Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset |
| Capacity | About 200,000 including crew |
| 2027 dates | 23–27 June, after a fallow 2026 |
| Access | Registration required; tickets sell out |
05 · Research & credits
Evidence and event information reviewed 2026-10-31. Published edition facts are separated from typical timing and historical context.
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