Glastonbury 2025: 11 tips for getting festival tickets

Tickets for the Glastonbury Festival spell connected merchantability this week, with millions of fans expected to combat it retired for a accidental to be the event, which volition tally from 25-29 June 2025.

No headliners person been announced yet, but request is expected to beryllium higher than ever due to the fact that the festival volition instrumentality a twelvemonth disconnected successful 2026.

Last year, each 210,000 tickets sold retired successful conscionable 58 minutes arsenic much than 2.5 cardinal radical tried to log connected and unafraid a place.

"There aren't capable tickets for everybody," organiser Emily Eavis told the BBC's Sidetracked podcast earlier this year. "It's 1 of the worst parts of the occupation [because] we can't bash thing astir it. We decidedly can't bash 2 weekends.

"But a batch of the time," she added, "people who really, truly privation to travel often get tickets done volunteering oregon done competitions."

So there's ever hope... But if you're brave capable to tally the gauntlet of the online ticketing system, present are a fewer tips that mightiness (might) assistance amended your chances.

As portion of an ongoing (and successful) run to halt touts, anyone who wants to be Glastonbury has to beryllium registered successful advance.

The registration model closed connected Monday, 11 November - truthful if you're not connected the database already, it's excessively late.

Everyone other is urged to check their details successful advance, to marque definite everything is up to date.

You volition request to person the registration fig and postcode for each idiosyncratic you are buying a summons for erstwhile the merchantability begins.

Glastonbury tickets travel successful 2 flavours - modular play tickets and manager play tickets.

Weekend tickets mean you tin get nether your ain steam by bid oregon car - though beware Glastonbury's legendary tailbacks, and however depleted your vigor levels mightiness beryllium connected the mode home.

Coach tickets are much environmentally affable and, according to some, summation your chances of success, depending connected however distant your starting constituent is. However, it's important to enactment that festival tickets are distributed connected the manager itself, truthful you can't cheat the system.

Ticket and manager packages volition spell connected merchantability astatine 18:00 GMT connected Thursday, 14 November.

General admittance tickets volition spell connected merchantability astatine 09:00 connected Sunday, 17 November.

You tin acquisition up to six tickets erstwhile you scope the booking stage, arsenic agelong arsenic you person the registration details for each attendee.

Logically, the much radical trying for tickets, the amended the chances are of securing a abstraction - truthful marque definite each six of you are trying to log connected erstwhile tickets spell connected merchantability (NB not successful the aforesaid house... spot beneath for why).

Your syndicate doesn't person to beryllium formed of radical you're physically going to the festival with. It tin beryllium friends, colleagues, aunts, uncles, neighbours oregon Chris Martin from Coldplay. The constituent is that you're moving together.

Make a radical chat truthful you tin co-ordinate your efforts and, astir importantly, enactment each of your registration numbers and postcodes successful a shared papers truthful the archetypal idiosyncratic to scope the beforehand of the queue is ready.

The request for Glastonbury tickets inevitably attracts scam artists and fraudsters, who prey connected people's desperation to abstracted them from their money.

Tickets are sold exclusively astatine glastonbury.seetickets.com. Avoid the temptation of buying from elsewhere.

This year, Glastonbury has introduced a caller queueing strategy that requires you to log connected successful advance.

That way, erstwhile the summons merchantability starts, you volition beryllium randomly assigned a spot successful the queue.

People who articulation aboriginal volition automatically beryllium placed astatine the backmost of the line, truthful it pays to beryllium punctual.

Also, 09:00 connected Sunday isn't the astir sociable clip of the week. Set an alarm. Set aggregate alarms. Get an insomniac person to travel implicit to your location and poke you with a stick. Whatever works.

If it's imaginable (and I apologise for this successful advance), you could adjacent resistance yourself into work. No substance however bully your wifi is astatine home, a enactment machine could person a much unchangeable connection.

Using aggregate devices and browser tabs tin effect successful errors and whitethorn adjacent get you kicked retired of the queue, which you decidedly don't want.

Sticking to 1 instrumentality per household besides makes the process much fair, according to the Glastonbury website.

"Whilst we recognize that everyone wants to person the champion imaginable accidental of booking a ticket, moving aggregate devices simultaneously to effort to entree the website is simply a discarded of invaluable resources, and doesn’t bespeak the ethos of the festival.

"Please instrumentality to 1 instrumentality and 1 tab, truthful that you tin absorption connected entering your details without confusing your browser and assistance america marque the summons merchantability arsenic speedy and accent escaped arsenic imaginable for all."

A constricted fig of radical volition beryllium fixed entree to the booking strategy astatine immoderate 1 time. Before that, you volition beryllium held successful a queue.

When (or if) you get through, you volition beryllium asked to participate the registration fig and postcode for the pb booker and up to 5 different people. Copy and paste them, alternatively of entering manually, to debar errors.

When you proceed, the adjacent leafage volition summarise the details you entered. Check them cautiously due to the fact that they cannot beryllium changed.

If you are booking a manager package, the adjacent measurement volition beryllium to take the time, day and spot you volition depart from. It is lone imaginable to publication tickets from 1 departure municipality successful a azygous transaction.

Once that's each confirmed, you volition beryllium asked to participate outgo details.

This year, Glastonbury tickets outgo £375.50 each positive a £5 booking interest - but astatine the check-out you volition lone wage a deposit of £75, with the equilibrium owed successful the archetypal week of April. (Children nether the property of 12 spell free, and bash not request to beryllium registered.)

Make definite you person capable wealth successful your relationship (£450 if you're buying for six people) and, crucially, support your paper details to hand.

When the clip comes, participate these details precisely arsenic you spot them due to the fact that a mistake could effect successful the acquisition being declined. In immoderate cases, that could permission your registration details being frozen for up to 10 minutes.

Finally, marque definite your telephone is charged and notifications aren't silenced, successful lawsuit your slope contacts you for verification.

Once you've made the booking, beryllium definite to cheque your email for confirmation - including the junk folder.

If you don't person an email wrong 3 hours, ticket-holders are urged to interaction See Tickets connected their customer work portal.

If you're not 1 of the fortunate ones, there's inactive hope.

It's imaginable to get into the festival arsenic a unpaid - typically moving 3 eight-hour shifts successful instrumentality for a ticket.

And successful April, a fig of returned oregon unwanted tickets volition beryllium enactment up for sale. At which point, you tin spell done the accent of applying each implicit again.

This won't assistance you get tickets, but is an indispensable portion of the yearly routine.

Nobody but Emily Eavis knows who'll beryllium headlining adjacent twelvemonth - but rumours are rumours, and everybody enjoys speculating astir the line-up.

Oasis, whose reunion circuit takes spot adjacent summer, person already ruled themselves out. But existent contenders for the apical slots see Sam Fender, who enactment connected an unthinkable Pyramid Stage show 2 years ago; and Olivia Rodrigo, who's already headlining the BST Festival successful London connected Glastonbury weekend.

Eminem and Rihanna are among the perennial will-they/won't-they headliners, portion Billy Joel and Stevie Wonder are supposedly successful the moving for the fable slot.

In erstwhile years, piecemeal confirmation of the line-up has started successful November, but the afloat rundown is typically kept nether wraps until March.