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The best music festivals in Europe 2027
Europe hosts several thousand music festivals every summer. Below are five guides covering the biggest and most talked-about, with dates, venues and line-ups taken straight from the festivals' own announcements.
Tunetrail tracks 731 festivals across Europe. These guides are editorial selections – we pick and rank the festivals that matter most within each genre and region, while dates, venues and line-ups update automatically as organisers release new information. If you'd rather explore for yourself, every festival is on the map.
The best rock and metal festivals in Europe 2027
Europe's largest rock and metal festivals are Wacken Open Air in Germany, Hellfest in France, Download in England and Graspop Metal Meeting in Belgium. The main season is June to August, but the calendar runs from January to September, and tickets to the biggest often sell out before a single band is announced.
17 festivals in this guide
The best electronic and techno festivals in Europe 2027
Europe's largest techno and electronic festivals are Tomorrowland in Belgium, Defqon.1 in the Netherlands, Parookaville in Germany and Ultra Europe in Croatia. But size says little about what kind of festival it is: this guide is sorted by subgenre, from techno and house to hardstyle, drum and bass, psytrance and ambient.
17 festivals in this guide
The best jazz festivals in Europe 2027
Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland and North Sea Jazz in Rotterdam are Europe's two most important jazz festivals. Montreux turns 60 in 2027. July is the busiest month, but the jazz season runs from April all the way into December.
32 festivals in this guide
The best music festivals in France 2027
Hellfest, Les Vieilles Charrues, Solidays and Rock en Seine are France's biggest music festivals. The season runs from May to late August, and France has more large festivals per capita than most European countries.
11 festivals in this guide
The best music festivals in Scandinavia 2027
Roskilde Festival in Denmark is the largest in the Nordics and one of Europe's oldest. Smukfest and Copenhell in Denmark, Flow in Finland and Øyafestivalen in Norway are the other majors. The season is short and dense – almost everything happens between June and mid-August.
12 festivals in this guide