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The clock above counts down to Glastonbury Festival 2027 from Wednesday, June 23 to Sunday, June 27, 2027 at Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset, returning after the planned 2026 fallow year.
Glastonbury is the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world and arguably the most-searched live event on the UK cultural calendar. Founded by Michael and Jane Eavis in 1970 on their family dairy farm, the festival has grown into a five-day gathering of roughly 210,000 ticket holders across more than 100 stages, with the Pyramid Stage as its iconic centerpiece. Glastonbury's scale, idiosyncratic booking, and its 50+ year tradition of resting the land every five or six years (the "fallow year") are baked into its identity.
The 2026 fallow year is the latest in this tradition, planned to give Worthy Farm's grass and infrastructure time to recover. That makes 2027 the festival's first edition back, a historically high-demand cycle: tickets for post-fallow Glastonburys typically sell out in under an hour, with registration and the coach-ticket-bundle ballot opening months earlier. The festival is run by the Eavis family (now led by Michael's daughter Emily) with a commitment to charitable causes including Oxfam, WaterAid, and Greenpeace, and significant proceeds support those partners each year.
The 2027 lineup is announced in stages by Glastonbury Festivals Ltd, typically with the Pyramid Stage headliners revealed in late winter and the full bill rolling out through spring. Headliner speculation has long included Oasis (whose 2025-26 reunion tour finishes in summer 2026), Fleetwood Mac, Lady Gaga, Coldplay, Olivia Rodrigo, and a returning Adele. Per festival tradition, expect the Legends slot on Sunday afternoon to deliver a heritage act, a surprise TBA performer on the Pyramid (TBA reveals are a Glastonbury staple), and the West Holts and Park stages to deliver the most adventurous booking.
The BBC holds exclusive UK broadcast rights and provides the most comprehensive coverage of any festival anywhere, with live multi-stage streams across BBC iPlayer, dedicated channels on BBC Two and BBC Four, and BBC Sounds audio for nearly every stage. Pyramid Stage headliners typically perform between 22:00 and 23:30 BST, which is 17:00-18:30 ET, 14:00-15:30 PT, and 02:30-04:00 IST early Sunday morning. Outside the UK, BBC iPlayer is geo-blocked, but BBC Studios licenses select sets to international platforms; YouTube uploads and BBC Sounds podcasts cover the gap for global listeners.
Glastonbury anchors the European summer-festival calendar alongside Tomorrowland Belgium 2027, Roskilde Festival 2026, and Primavera Sound Barcelona 2026. For UK and Irish music tentpoles see Reading and Leeds 2027. Other major music events to follow include the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 countdown and the Oasis Live 2026 countdown.
When is Glastonbury 2027? Wednesday, June 23 to Sunday, June 27, 2027 at Worthy Farm. Why is there no Glastonbury 2026? 2026 is a planned fallow year to give the farm's land and infrastructure time to recover, a tradition the Eavis family has observed roughly every five years. How can I watch Glastonbury 2027? Live across BBC iPlayer, BBC Two, BBC Four, and BBC Sounds in the UK; international viewers depend on BBC Studios license partners and selective YouTube uploads. When do tickets go on sale? The general-admission and coach-bundle ballots typically open in November 2026 via the official Glastonbury website, with mandatory pre-registration required.
