If you have left it late, you have not left it too late. 75 European festivals start between today and 31 August, across 21 countries — from Sziget this week to the enormous final weekend that takes in Reading, Leeds, Creamfields, Rock en Seine and Mysteryland all at once. Sorted by start date, soonest first.
75 festivals in the database start between today, 10 August, and the end of the month, across 21 countries. The UK holds the largest share at 19, then Germany with 9 and France with 8. Electronic is the most common genre at 23, followed by multi-genre at 19.
The median ticket among the 57 with a listed price is €165, ranging from €18 to €307. Prices are not listed for 12 of them — those cards say so rather than guessing.
A word of caution on a page like this. Everything here is accurate to our data as of 10 August 2026, but last-minute means exactly that: some of these will have sold out by the time you read it, and a few sold out months ago. Treat this as a shortlist to check, not a list of guaranteed availability. Every card links to the official site where we have it.
These begin in the next seven days. If you are going to do something spontaneous, it is one of these. Check availability on the official site before you travel — several of these sell out, and a few will already have.
Running right now. Rock in Italy, over 4 days. We do not hold a ticket price for this one — check the official site before planning around it.
Running right now. Electronic in Italy, over 4 days.
Starts tomorrow. Multi-Genre in Hungary, over 5 days. A week on an island in the Danube in the middle of Budapest. Sziget is less a festival you attend than a temporary city you move into, and the week-long format changes the whole experience. At €295, one of the steeper tickets still available.
Starts in 2 days. Electronic in Greece, over 8 days. At €18, among the cheapest tickets left on the calendar.
Starts in 2 days. Electronic in Croatia, over 5 days.
Starts in 2 days. Multi-Genre in the UK, over 5 days. Surf and music on the Cornish coast at Newquay, with the contest running alongside the stages.
Starts in 2 days. Multi-Genre in the UK, over 5 days. Not really a music festival — an immersive theatrical city built new each year in the Hampshire hills, with actors, districts and a plot. Nothing else in Europe is quite like it.
Starts in 2 days. Electronic in Malta, over 4 days.
Starts in 2 days. Indie/Alternative in France, over 4 days.
Starts in 2 days. Electronic in Spain, over 5 days.
Starts in 2 days. Rock in Hungary, over 4 days. We do not hold a ticket price for this one — check the official site before planning around it.
Starts in 2 days. Rock/Metal in Germany, over 4 days. One of Germany's major metal festivals, at Dinkelsbühl in Bavaria. At €250, one of the steeper tickets still available.
Starts in 2 days. Multi-Genre in Norway, over 4 days. Oslo in a city park, with a reputation as one of the best-run and most sustainable festivals in Europe.
Starts in 3 days. Electronic in Spain, over 4 days. We do not hold a ticket price for this one — check the official site before planning around it.
Starts in 3 days. Indie/Pop in Poland, over 3 days. Free to attend.
Starts in 3 days. Electronic in Germany, over 5 days.
Starts in 3 days. Rock/Indie in Germany, over 4 days.
Starts in 3 days. Metal/Rock in France, over 4 days. Brittany's metal festival, and the largest of its kind in western France.
Starts in 3 days. Multi-Genre in Portugal, over 4 days.
Starts in 3 days. Multi-Genre in Italy, over 3 days.
Starts in 3 days. Rock/Metal in Germany, over 3 days.
Starts in 3 days. Metal/Rock in Portugal, over 3 days. Stoner, psych and heavy rock on the beach at Moledo in northern Portugal.
Starts in 3 days. Electronic in the Czechia, over 4 days. We do not hold a ticket price for this one — check the official site before planning around it.
Starts in 3 days. Multi-Genre in Sweden, over 3 days. Gothenburg's city festival in the Slottsskogen park — well programmed, very Swedish, and easy to combine with a few days in the city.
Starts in 4 days. Electronic in Germany, over 2 days.
Starts in 4 days. Multi-Genre in Finland, over 3 days. Helsinki's festival, staged in a disused power plant complex at Suvilahti. The setting does most of the work and the booking does the rest.
Starts in 4 days. Electronic in Serbia, over 4 days. Serbia's biggest electronic festival, in the spa town of Vrnjačka Banja.
Starts in 4 days. Multi-Genre in Germany, over 2 days. In Hamburg's Wilhelmsburg district, mixing music with contemporary art installations across the site.
Starts in 4 days. Electronic in France, over 3 days.
Starts in 4 days. Jazz in Italy, over 3 days. At €35, among the cheapest tickets left on the calendar.
Starts in 4 days. Electronic in Belgium, over 3 days. We do not hold a ticket price for this one — check the official site before planning around it.
Starts in 5 days. Rock/Pop in the UK, over 12 days.
Starts in 5 days. Reggae/World in Spain, over 7 days. Europe's largest reggae festival, a week on the beach at Benicàssim on the Spanish east coast.
Starts in 6 days. Electronic in Croatia, over 5 days. Techno and house on the beaches and in the clubs of Zrće on the island of Pag.
More than a week out, which means tickets, travel and time off are all still realistically arrangeable. The last weekend of August is the busiest of the entire year: Reading and Leeds, Creamfields, Rock en Seine, Mysteryland, Decibel Outdoor and Shambala all land on it.
18 August — 8 days away. Rock in Portugal, over 5 days.
19 August — 9 days away. Rock/Metal in the UK, over 4 days. The festival for math rock, post-rock and anything in an unusual time signature. Small, specific, and beloved by the people who go. We do not hold a ticket price for this one — check the official site before planning around it.
19 August — 9 days away. Multi-Genre in Switzerland, over 5 days. At €282, one of the steeper tickets still available.
19 August — 9 days away. Indie/Rock in Portugal, over 4 days. On a river beach in northern Portugal — indie and alternative, and one of the best-sited festivals anywhere in Europe.
20 August — 10 days away. Rock in Austria, over 3 days.
20 August — 10 days away. Indie/Folk in the UK, over 4 days. In the Brecon Beacons in Wales, under the Black Mountains. Folk and indie, mountains on every side, and a famously unhurried atmosphere. At €296, one of the steeper tickets still available.
20 August — 10 days away. Multi-Genre in France, over 4 days.
20 August — 10 days away. Multi-Genre in Belgium, over 4 days. Hasselt in Belgium, and the sharper, more alternative counterpart to the country's bigger summer events.
20 August — 10 days away. Multi-Genre in France, over 4 days.
20 August — 10 days away. Jazz/Soul in the UK, over 4 days. We do not hold a ticket price for this one — check the official site before planning around it.
21 August — 11 days away. Electronic/House in the UK, over 3 days. We do not hold a ticket price for this one — check the official site before planning around it.
21 August — 11 days away. Multi-Genre in the Netherlands, over 3 days. Biddinghuizen in the Netherlands — three days, camping, and a programme that covers music, comedy, film and talks.
21 August — 11 days away. Electronic in Germany, over 4 days.
22 August — 12 days away. Multi-Genre in the UK, over 9 days. London's Victoria Park across a run of days, with separate line-ups and a free community programme midweek.
28 August — 18 days away. Pop/Rock in the UK, over 3 days. On Southsea seafront in Portsmouth, with the sea on one side and Portsdown Hill on the other. At €284, one of the steeper tickets still available.
24 August — 14 days away. Jazz in Italy, over 41 days. Free to attend.
25 August — 15 days away. Folk/Roots in Spain, over 6 days.
26 August — 16 days away. Electronic in Croatia, over 5 days. The Amsterdam label's Croatian offshoot in Tisno, built around long DJ sets rather than headliners.
26 August — 16 days away. Electronic in Germany, over 6 days.
26 August — 16 days away. Folk in Denmark, over 4 days.
27 August — 17 days away. Folk/Acoustic in the UK, over 4 days.
27 August — 17 days away. Electronic in the UK, over 4 days. Britain's biggest dance festival, at Daresbury in Cheshire, over the August bank holiday.
27 August — 17 days away. Indie in Spain, over 3 days. We do not hold a ticket price for this one — check the official site before planning around it.
27 August — 17 days away. Electronic in France, over 4 days.
27 August — 17 days away. Multi-Genre in the Netherlands, over 4 days. On the island of Vlieland in the Dutch Wadden Sea — you arrive by ferry, and the scale and setting make it unlike anything on the mainland. At €285, one of the steeper tickets still available.
27 August — 17 days away. Rock/Indie in the UK, over 4 days. The northern half of the Reading and Leeds pair, at Bramham Park, sharing the same bill across the bank holiday weekend. At €270, one of the steeper tickets still available.
27 August — 17 days away. Electronic in the UK, over 4 days. Free to attend.
27 August — 17 days away. Rock/Indie in the UK, over 4 days. Half of Britain's twin August institution — Reading and Leeds share a line-up across the same weekend. At €280, one of the steeper tickets still available.
27 August — 17 days away. Dub/Reggae in the UK, over 4 days. A Northamptonshire festival with no corporate sponsorship, no meat and a strong line in costume. Fiercely independent and proud of it. We do not hold a ticket price for this one — check the official site before planning around it.
27 August — 17 days away. Classical in Finland, over 3 days. We do not hold a ticket price for this one — check the official site before planning around it.
28 August — 18 days away. Pop/Dance in the UK, over 3 days. At €307, one of the steeper tickets still available.
28 August — 18 days away. Multi-Genre in the UK, over 3 days.
28 August — 18 days away. Electronic in the Netherlands, over 3 days. The Dutch harder-styles season closer at Hilvarenbeek, covering hardstyle, raw, uptempo and hardcore properly.
28 August — 18 days away. Indie/Alternative in Portugal, over 3 days. Lisbon's late-August festival in the Parque da Bela Vista, with an international indie and electronic bill.
28 August — 18 days away. Rock/Indie in France, over 2 days. Free to attend.
28 August — 18 days away. Multi-Genre in France, over 3 days. In the Domaine National de Saint-Cloud on the edge of Paris — a big-name rock and pop bill within reach of the Métro.
28 August — 18 days away. Folk/Americana in the UK, over 4 days. We do not hold a ticket price for this one — check the official site before planning around it.
29 August — 19 days away. Electronic/Indie in the UK, over 2 days. Free to attend.
29 August — 19 days away. Multi-Genre in Italy, over 9 days. Free to attend.
29 August — 19 days away. Electronic in the Netherlands, over 2 days. The oldest electronic music festival still running in the Netherlands, on the Haarlemmermeer grounds.
29 August — 19 days away. Pop/Electronic in Germany, over 7 days.
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