Glastonbury Festival has sold every general admission ticket for its 2027 edition in 42 minutes. Sales opened at 10:00 CET on 5 October, and by 10:42 the ticketing agency See Tickets had declared the event sold out, even though not one performer has been announced. The agency told buyers that confirmation emails were being sent out and thanked everyone who had bought a ticket that morning.
Each ticket costs £408, including a £5 booking fee, or roughly €480. It is the first time the price has gone above £400, and it is close to £30 (€34) more than in 2025, the last year the festival was held. Buyers paid a £100 deposit this week and must pay the remaining £308 between 1 and 7 April 2027. Anyone who does not pay the balance in that window loses the ticket, which then goes back into the pool.
The cost has drawn complaints from fans online. Several pointed out that a ticket cost £286 in 2010, £165 in 2009 and only £87 in 2000. One calculated that the 2000 price would be worth about £160 today once adjusted for inflation, and questioned whether the line-up justifies a rise well beyond that. The 2010 price of £286 converts to about €330. The speed of Monday morning’s sell-out suggests the rising cost has not yet hurt demand, whatever fans say about it online.
The 2027 festival will run from 23 to 27 June, after the traditional fallow year in 2026. Organiser Emily Eavis has ruled out Madonna and Oasis but has said all of the headliners are booked. “It’s all coming together really well,” she told BBC Radio 4 in August. Bookmakers have made Sam Fender, Taylor Swift, Rihanna and Little Simz early favourites, and there has also been speculation about The Rolling Stones, Radiohead and Fontaines D.C. None of those names has been confirmed by the festival.
Fans who missed out this week have one more chance. Returned tickets, along with those whose balance is not paid in April, will go back on sale in a resale in spring 2027. Until the organisers make their first announcement, the bookmakers’ lists are the only guide to who will play, and the sell-out shows how many people are willing to buy before they know.
