Tickets for the 2027 Glastonbury Festival in the United Kingdom sold out within 42 minutes on Sunday, despite organisers increasing the price to a record £408.
Thousands of fans joined an online queue from 9am BST to secure tickets for the festival, which will return to Worthy Farm in Somerset from June 23 to 27, 2027, following a fallow year.
The latest ticket price, which includes a £5 booking fee, is £29.50 higher than the cost of attending the 2025 edition.
It is also the first time tickets for the festival have exceeded £400.
Glastonbury organisers announced the sell-out shortly after 9.40am, thanking those who secured tickets and apologising to fans who were unsuccessful due to demand exceeding supply.
“There will be a resale of any cancelled or returned tickets in Spring 2027,” organisers said.
The festival’s coach packages, which went on sale on Thursday, had already sold out in less than 30 minutes.
Despite the higher cost, festival-goer Zoe Scott, who has attended Glastonbury twice, said the experience remained worth the money.
“You’re getting to see thousands of acts, there’s over 100 stages,” she said.
“It’s such a vibe at Glastonbury- everyone’s so happy and free-spirited. You’re just on a constant high from friends, music and the sun is usually shining”.
The headliners for the 2027 festival have yet to be announced, although organiser Emily Eavis previously said the preparations were progressing well and that the team was “very excited”.
Some fans who secured tickets described the process as easier than in previous years, with Dave in London saying the system appeared fairer.
“Actually it seems like it’s fairer this year than it’s ever been,” he said.
“All the hacks that people used to use don’t seem to have the same impact, and about a quarter of the people on the groups we are on managed to get tickets.”
Sarah in Dorset also managed to obtain tickets after using a mobile phone with a 5G connection.
“A mobile phone on 5G in Shaftesbury seemed to be the optimal way to get tickets. We didn’t even know Shaftesbury had 5G until this morning,” she said.
Among those who missed out were Mat Chapman and his daughter Amy.
Mat had hoped to finally attend the festival with his daughter after years of trying, but was unsuccessful.
He had promised to take Amy to Glastonbury when she was five because “she always wanted to have her own flag that you could see on the telly”.
After 20 years of trying, he had hoped to secure tickets this year, which coincided with Amy’s 26th birthday, but said he only moved from “two bar hell to three bar purgatory”.
“There’s always next year. We’ll fly the flag there one day.”
Tickets for Glastonbury have risen considerably over the years, increasing from £185 in 2010 to £408 for the 2027 festival.
The biggest increases have largely occurred since the pandemic, with prices rising from £318 in 2019.
The festival organisers said tickets that are not fully paid for by the early April 2027 deadline will be returned to an official resale pool, although the exact date for the resale has not been announced.
