Glastonbury 2027: Tickets Cross £400 for the First Time as Sale Dates Confirmed
Glastonbury Festival 2027 tickets will cost £408 including a £5 booking fee, the first time the price has crossed the £400 threshold. The festival has confirmed sale dates for its return after a fallow year — a scheduled break the event takes periodically to let the Worthy Farm site recover. The 2026 edition was skipped as part of that cycle. The 2025 ticket cost £378.50, also with a £5 booking fee per ticket plus £10.25 postage and packing per order (The Guardian).
The 2027 festival runs from Wednesday 23 June to Sunday 27 June 2027 (BBC News; The Guardian).
Registration is the gating mechanism. Anyone aged 13 or over on 23 June 2027 must be individually registered with the festival before attempting to buy a ticket. Registration closes at 5pm BST on Friday 25 September (The Guardian; Glastonbury Festival).
Ticket-plus-coach packages go on sale first, at 6pm on Thursday 1 October, ahead of general admission at 9am on Sunday 4 October. Both sales run exclusively through glastonbury.seetickets.com. The coach-bundled tickets are designed to encourage environmentally sound travel and carry a hard constraint: they cannot be converted to general admission, and purchasers must travel on their designated coach. Under-13s attend free (The Guardian; Glastonbury Festival).
Buyers can book up to six tickets per transaction by paying a £100 deposit per person at the point of sale, or pay in full upfront. The remaining balance of £308 plus postage and packing is payable from 9am BST on Thursday 1 April to 11.59pm BST on Wednesday 7 April 2027. Car parking passes and cancellation protection can be added during that balance-payment window. Private Hire Coach Park Passes, which cost £170 including VAT in 2025, had not yet been priced for 2027 as of the festival's official info page (Glastonbury Festival; Glastonbury Festival).
All tickets are strictly non-transferable and feature a photograph of the registered ticket holder, checked by security at admission. The festival has run this system for years to suppress touting — the practice of buying tickets to resell them at inflated prices — and it remains in place for 2027 (Glastonbury Festival).
The £408 ticket includes access to over 4,000 performances across more than 100 stages, five nights of camping with no early entry fees, a free programme, a free mobile app and phone charging, and free Kidzfield entertainment. The festival also states that over £3m is given annually from recent editions to Oxfam, Greenpeace, WaterAid and other causes (Glastonbury Festival).
On the lineup, organiser Emily Eavis has ruled out one name: she confirmed it is "definitely not Madonna" headlining the 2027 festival. Harry Styles is widely rumoured for a headline slot, with Taylor Swift, Fontaines DC, Sabrina Carpenter and Fred Again among acts mooted by bookies. BBC News previously reported that the full 2027 lineup and headliners were set to be announced in early 2027 (The Guardian; BBC News).
The festival had previously run a prize draw offering two 2027 tickets, with entries closing at noon on 7 November 2025 (Glastonbury Festival).
The broader context here is the pricing trajectory and what it tells us. The jump from £378.50 to £408 works out to roughly a 7.8% increase across a two-year gap, factoring in the fallow year. That sits in the range of broader UK live-event inflation, which has been driven by rising staging, logistics, and labour costs. The symbolic £400 threshold is likely to draw public attention, though the festival's bundled offering — five nights camping, over 4,000 performances, no early-entry surcharges — positions the per-day cost well below most major UK arena or stadium tours.
The structural model matters too. Glastonbury controls its own ticketing pipeline through registration, photographic verification, and a single authorised seller, which has kept secondary market pricing broadly in check relative to comparable events. The £100 deposit structure, allowing buyers to commit early and settle the balance months later, also smooths demand concentration. For an event that sells out within minutes whenever tickets are released, the pricing decision matters less for demand — which is effectively guaranteed — than for perception: how the festival balances its charitable commitments and operational costs against the optics of breaking a round-number barrier its audience will notice.
