Four days from 26 August; weekend tickets from £296. Headliners remain under wraps until December, with the shared bill once again split across the two sites.
Reading & Leeds Festival has put tickets on sale for the 2027 edition after the 2026 event attracted more than 500,000 attendees across both sites. The festival will run from Thursday 26 to Sunday 29 August 2027. Presale tickets went on sale at 10am BST on Friday 4 September 2026, with general sale at 10am BST on Friday 11 September 2026. Weekend non-camping tickets are priced at £296. Camping tickets cost £326. Weekend camping with early entry is set at £362. The dates and on-sale information were announced by Festival Republic in early September 2026. Line-up details for 2027 remain unannounced. Headliners are expected in December. As before, the festivals will share the same bill while acts perform on different days at each site.
Half a million and an all-home headliner bill The 2026 edition delivered a clear marker of scale: attendance topped 500,000 across the Reading and Leeds sites. That figure arrived alongside a programming decision not taken for 26 years — an all-British and Irish headliner line-up. That choice placed British and Irish artists alone at the top of both bills for the first time in 26 years. The turnout showed the strength of that draw. For a festival calendar built around British and Irish pop and rock, the top of the bill carried real weight: the weekends were defined by the records and stages at the centre of that scene, and ticket sales reflected it. Reading and Leeds operate as a paired event. The line-up is shared; the performance days are not. An act that closes one site on Friday may play a different slot at the other site on Saturday or Sunday. That arrangement held through 2026 and is confirmed again for 2027. It is the structure that lets the two gatherings function as one booking while giving each site its own nightly shape.
Tickets live, names still to come With general sale open since 11 September, the commercial side of 2027 is already under way. The three published price points — £296 without camping, £326 with camping, and £362 for camping plus early entry — cover the full Thursday-to-Sunday run. No further tiers were detailed in the announcement. The artistic side is still blank. No headliners, no support acts and no stage-by-stage breakdown have been issued. December is the month flagged for the headliner announcement. Until those names appear, the only fixed elements are the calendar, the ticket prices and the knowledge that the bill will again move between the two sites on staggered days. The 2026 attendance of more than 500,000 sets the context for whatever follows. It showed that a bill headed entirely by British and Irish artists could fill both sites at that scale. Whether 2027 repeats that number will depend on the line-up still being assembled. For now the sale is open, the dates are locked, and the next public step is the December reveal.
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