Glastonbury 2027 tickets sell out in 42 minutes at record £408 price

At nine o'clock on a Sunday morning in early October, thousands of people opened their browsers and joined an online queue, hoping to buy a ticket to Glastonbury Festival. By 9:40, it was over. The 2027 edition—scheduled for June 23 to 27 at Worthy Farm in Somerset—had sold out in 42 minutes. Organisers posted to Instagram to thank those who had secured tickets and to apologize to everyone else. The gap between supply and demand had been absolute.

The price tag was the story underneath. At £408 per ticket, including a £5 booking fee, Glastonbury had crossed the £400 threshold for the first time in its history. That represented a jump of £29.50 from the last festival in 2025, and a staggering increase from the £185 charged in 2010. Most of that climb had happened since the pandemic: tickets were £318 in 2019, then climbed steadily to where they sit now. The festival's organisers had announced the price increase a month earlier, and the market had responded by moving faster than ever before.

This was not the first round of selling that weekend. Coach package tickets had gone on sale the Thursday before and vanished in less than 30 minutes. That earlier sprint should have signalled what was coming, but the Sunday morning sale still caught people off guard with its velocity. Some who had been trying for years found themselves locked out. Mat Chapman had promised his daughter Amy that he would take her to Glastonbury when she turned five. She was now 26, and he had spent two decades attempting to make good on that promise. On her birthday, he sat at his computer and watched his connection status shift from "two bar hell to three bar purgatory," never quite reaching the front of the queue. "There's always next year," he told the BBC. "We'll fly the flag there one day."

But others did get through, and their accounts suggested something had shifted in how the system worked. Dave, who was in London, had been part of several groups all trying simultaneously on laptops and phones. He succeeded, and he noticed something: the old hacks and workarounds that people used to deploy seemed to have lost their edge. About a quarter of the people in his groups had managed to secure tickets. Sarah in Dorset had her own observation about the mechanics of access—a mobile phone on 5G in Shaftesbury, of all places, had been the optimal tool. She hadn't even known the town had 5G coverage until that morning.

For those who had already been to Glastonbury, the price felt like a different calculation. Zoe Scott, who had attended twice before, said the cost was worth it. "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." Nick and Helen Nugget, a couple from Amersham who had met at the festival in 2007, were heading back to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary. They had last attended in 2011, though they had managed to get tickets for 2019 and were unable to go because they were in the process of adopting their daughter. This time, they were returning with the same group of friends who had introduced them all those years ago.

Headliners for 2027 have not yet been announced. Emily Eavis, the festival's organiser, said previously that the team was "very excited" and that things were "coming together really well." For now, those who missed out on Sunday have one more chance. Any tickets from the sale that are not paid in full by early April 2027 will be returned to an official resale pool, with the exact date to be confirmed but likely sometime in late April. It is a small window, and it assumes cancellations. For most of those who did not get through on Sunday morning, the question is whether they will try again in spring, or whether the price and the odds will finally convince them to let it go.