Countdown to your festival
🎪 Monday, October 5, 2026
Your festival is 53 days away.
📌 That date is just an example. Set your own below and you'll get a link with your date in it, and this page keeps the background.
That's 7 weeks and 4 days to go.
✨ Make it yours
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Gates open at a very specific hour, and everyone in the tent wants to know how long that is. Pick your date and time below.
Pick your date in the picker above. The link you get back carries the date, this background and every colour you changed.
Gates open at a very specific hour, and everyone in the tent wants to know how long that is. 🎪 Pick your date and time below.
Festival tickets behave like a bath draining. Nothing seems to move for months, then the last of them go in about four minutes.
- Most large festivals run three to four days, which is 72 to 96 hours of standing up.
- Line-up announcements usually land two to four months before the gates open.
- A weekend ticket costs about the same per hour as a cinema seat, once you do the sums.
- Set the target time to gate opening and share the link with everyone in the group. 🎶
Counting back from the gates
| Days before | Usually the moment for |
|---|---|
| 180 | Tickets on sale |
| 90 | Line-up and stage times |
| 14 | Travel and camping sorted |
| 1 | Charging everything you own |
Questions people ask
Can I count to gate opening rather than midnight?
Yes. Set the exact hour with the target time control.
Can the whole group use one link?
Yes, and each person sees it on their own clock.
More background: Music festivals on Wikipedia