626 active · 633 total
There are 633 music festivals in United Kingdom. 626 are currently active and 7 are defunct or on hiatus.
The oldest is Birmingham Triennial Music Festival in Birmingham, founded in 1784. The largest by capacity is Glastonbury Festival at 210,000.
The most popular month for festivals in United Kingdom is august, with 8 festivals typically held during that period.
| Festival | Status |
|---|---|
| Deepdale Festival Norfolk, United Kingdom | active |
| RNCM Day of Percussion Manchester, United Kingdom | active |
| A Carefully Planned Festival 2016 Manchester, United Kingdom | active |
| Reading Rock ’81 Reading, United Kingdom | active |
| Reading Festival 2001 Reading, United Kingdom | active |
| Harmony Manchester, United Kingdom | active |
| TRNSMT Festival 2024, Day One: River Stage Glasgow, United Kingdom | active |
| Alt3 Rebellion Fringe Fest, Blackpool - One Dimensional Creatures & SINKR Blackpool, United Kingdom | active |
| Radio 1’s Hackney Weekend - In New Music We Trust Stage Hackney, United Kingdom | active |
| L-dopa Sheffield, United Kingdom | active |
| North West Calling Manchester, United Kingdom | active |
| BUCK 2013: Summer Sun Celebration Manchester, United Kingdom | active |
| Triptych Festival 2007: Glasgow Glasgow, United Kingdom | active |
| Freedom of the City Festival 2012 Camden, United Kingdom | active |
| Hampton Court Palace Festival London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, United Kingdom | active |
| Capital FM Jingle Bell Ball 2019 Greenwich, United Kingdom | active |
| Reading Festival 2006 Reading, United Kingdom | active |
| Accidental Meetings: Saccade, Strange Brew (front) Bristol, United Kingdom | active |
| Radio 1’s Hackney Weekend - Outdoor DJ Stage Hackney, United Kingdom | active |
| TRNSMT Festival 2024, Day Two: Main Stage Glasgow, United Kingdom | active |
| Secret Garden Party Abbots Ripton, United Kingdom | active |
| Wireless Festival London, United Kingdom | active |
| TRNSMT Festival 2018 Glasgow, United Kingdom | active |
| Reading Rock ’82 Reading, United Kingdom | active |
| Reading Festival 2011 Reading, United Kingdom | active |
| BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend 2019 Middlesbrough, United Kingdom | active |
| Reading Festival 1996 Reading, United Kingdom | active |
| Total World Tour: London Lambeth, United Kingdom | active |
| Sandbach Concert Series Sandbach, United Kingdom | active |
| Deepdale Hygge Norfolk, United Kingdom | active |
| Celtic Flame - Royal Albert Hall Kensington and Chelsea, United Kingdom | active |
| Reading Festival 2007 Reading, United Kingdom | active |
| Féile an Phobail Belfast, United Kingdom | active |
| Glastonbury Festival Pilton, United Kingdom | active |
| Reading Rock Festival Reading, United Kingdom | active |
| Radio 1’s Hackney Weekend - 1Xtra Stage Hackney, United Kingdom | active |
| T on the Fringe 2006 Edinburgh, United Kingdom | active |
| Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod Denbighshire, United Kingdom | active |
| G.G.I. Festival 2019 Glasgow, United Kingdom | active |
| G.G.I. Festival 2006 Edinburgh, United Kingdom | active |
| G.G.I. Festival 2012 Glasgow, United Kingdom | active |
| Resolution Festival Westminster, United Kingdom | active |
| Desertfest London 2018 Camden, United Kingdom | active |
| Reading Festival 1996: Dr. Martens Stage Reading, United Kingdom | active |
| Sound Island Music Festival 2009 Kent, United Kingdom | active |
| Reading Festival Reading, United Kingdom | active |
| Radio 1’s Hackney Weekend - Dance Arena Hackney, United Kingdom | active |
| Reading Festival 2004 Reading, United Kingdom | active |
| TRNSMT Festival 2024, Day Two: King Tut's Stage Glasgow, United Kingdom | active |
| Great X-pectations Haringey, United Kingdom | active |
| CarFest North 2015 Cheshire West and Chester, United Kingdom | active |
| Radio 1’s Hackney Weekend - BBC Introducing Stage Hackney, United Kingdom | active |
| Desertfest London 2013 Camden, United Kingdom | active |
| Holidays in the Sun Blackpool, United Kingdom | active |
| TRNSMT Festival 2019 Glasgow, United Kingdom | active |
| Bluedot Cheshire East, United Kingdom | active |
| TRNSMT Festival 2024, Day One: King Tut's Stage Glasgow, United Kingdom | active |
| Meltdown 1998 Lambeth, United Kingdom | active |
| The D.F.O.P. Allstars Payback Party Leicester, United Kingdom | active |
| Supersonic Birmingham, United Kingdom | active |
| TRNSMT Festival 2017 Glasgow, United Kingdom | active |
| Reading Festival 2019 Reading, United Kingdom | active |
| Julian Cope’s Cornucopea Lambeth, United Kingdom | active |
| Rock ’n’ Roll Festival Norfolk, United Kingdom | active |
| Manchester Pride Manchester, United Kingdom | active |
| Glyndebourne Festival Opera East Sussex, United Kingdom | active |
| Kaleidoscope Festival Haringey, United Kingdom | active |
| Guinness Fleadh Festival 1998: London Haringey, United Kingdom | active |
| Oundle International Festival Oundle, United Kingdom | active |
| Cambridge Folk Festival United Kingdom | active |
| Stour Music Festival Ashford, United Kingdom | active |
| BBC Proms London, United Kingdom | active |
| Appleby Jazz Festival Appleby-in-Westmorland, United Kingdom | active |
| Tartan Heart Festival Scotland, United Kingdom | active |
| Tiree Music Festival Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom | active |
| Neverworld London Borough of Bromley, United Kingdom | active |
| Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo City of Edinburgh, United Kingdom | active |
| Hebridean Celtic Festival United Kingdom | active |
| Aldeburgh Festival Aldeburgh, United Kingdom | active |
| RockNess United Kingdom | active |
| Truck Festival Steventon, United Kingdom | active |
| Underage Festival London, United Kingdom | active |
| WOMAD Charlton Park Charlton, United Kingdom | active |
| Wakestock United Kingdom | active |
| Knockengorroch Dumfries and Galloway, United Kingdom | active |
| Garsington Opera Garsington, United Kingdom | active |
| Field Day London, United Kingdom | active |
| Bath International Music Festival Bath, United Kingdom | active |
| Grimeborn East London, United Kingdom | active |
| Greenbelt Festival United Kingdom | active |
| Cheltenham Music Festival Cheltenham, United Kingdom | active |
| Trowbridge Village Pump Festival United Kingdom | active |
| Solfest Cumbria, United Kingdom | active |
| The Grange Festival Itchen Stoke and Ovington, United Kingdom | active |
| Wickerman Festival Dumfries and Galloway, United Kingdom | active |
| Monsters of Rock United Kingdom | active |
| Download Festival Donington Park, United Kingdom | active |
| Reading and Leeds Festivals Reading, United Kingdom | active |
| Boomtown Fair Winchester, United Kingdom | active |
| Creamfields United Kingdom | active |
| Stone Free Festival Greenwich, United Kingdom | active |
| Broken Knees Festival 2025 - Manchester, United Kingdom | active |
| Accidental Meetings: Saccade Bristol, United Kingdom | active |
| Madstock - Main Stage Hackney, United Kingdom | active |
| Manchester Psych Fest Manchester, United Kingdom | active |
| Capital FM Jingle Bell Ball Greenwich, United Kingdom | active |
| Madstock - Second Stage Hackney, United Kingdom | active |
| TRNSMT Festival 2024, Day Three: The Boogie Bar Glasgow, United Kingdom | active |
| Radio 1’s Big Weekend Liverpool, United Kingdom | active |
| Sound Island Music Festival Kent, United Kingdom | active |
| The Last of the Summer Wine Birmingham, United Kingdom | active |
| Freedom to Party Wakefield, United Kingdom | active |
| Datura Meteloides Nottingham, United Kingdom | active |
| New Years Eve Party Birmingham, United Kingdom | active |
| ISCM World Music Days Manchester, United Kingdom | active |
| Green Man Festival Crickhowell, United Kingdom | active |
| Intense Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom | active |
| Make A Scene Festival Middlesbrough, United Kingdom | active |
| Brancaster Staithe Sea Shanty Festival Norfolk, United Kingdom | active |
| Energy Coventry, United Kingdom | active |
| Upton Country Park Festival: Ladies Night Poole, United Kingdom | active |
| 6 Music Festival Haringey, United Kingdom | active |
| Bickershaw Festival Wigan, United Kingdom | active |
| Lovebox 2012 Hackney, United Kingdom | active |
| Radio 1's Big Weekend 2003 - Sunday Cardiff, United Kingdom | active |
| The Glasgow Weekender Glasgow, United Kingdom | active |
| Let's Rock / Party at the Palace 2024 West Lothian, United Kingdom | active |
| Upton Country Park Festival: Super Family Singalong Poole, United Kingdom | active |
| Shoom!!! Southwark, United Kingdom | active |
| G.G.I. Festival Glasgow, United Kingdom | active |
| Wireless Festival 2024 Haringey, United Kingdom | active |
| Renaissance Derby, United Kingdom | active |
| Space Funk Manchester, United Kingdom | active |
| Dreamscape Milton Keynes, United Kingdom | active |
| Reading Festival 2022 Reading, United Kingdom | active |
| BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend Middlesbrough, United Kingdom | active |
| Ether Lambeth, United Kingdom | active |
| RNCM Saxophone Day Manchester, United Kingdom | active |
| All Points East London, United Kingdom | active |
| Riffs For Revolution Manchester, United Kingdom | active |
| The Proms 1930 (Northern) Manchester, United Kingdom | active |
| G-Mex: The Tenth Event Manchester, United Kingdom | active |
| Meze Festival Newport, United Kingdom | active |
| Summer Sundae Weekender Leicester, United Kingdom | active |
| Tarlair Music Festival Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom | active |
| Beautiful Days Festival Devon, United Kingdom | active |
| The Proms Winter 1972/73 Kensington and Chelsea, United Kingdom | active |
| The Red Festival Middlesbrough, United Kingdom | active |
| Lau-Land Bristol, United Kingdom | active |
| The Proms Winter Kensington and Chelsea, United Kingdom | active |
| The Proms Summer Kensington and Chelsea, United Kingdom | active |
| The Proms Kensington and Chelsea, United Kingdom | active |
| All Tomorrow’s Parties East Sussex, United Kingdom | active |
| TRNSMT Festival Glasgow, United Kingdom | active |
| Stone Free Festival 2016 Greenwich, United Kingdom | active |
| Latitude Festival Southwold, United Kingdom | active |
| Festival N°6 Q737888, United Kingdom | active |
| Out of the Ordinary Festival United Kingdom | active |
| Opera Azuriales Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, United Kingdom | active |
| Rhythms of The World United Kingdom | active |
| Godiva Festival United Kingdom | active |
| Midlands Music Festival United Kingdom | active |
| GuilFest United Kingdom | active |
| York Early Music Festival York, United Kingdom | active |
| Upton Blues Festival United Kingdom | active |
| Glade Festival United Kingdom | active |
| The Big Chill United Kingdom | active |
| Infest United Kingdom | active |
| Beautiful Days United Kingdom | active |
| Lytham Festival United Kingdom | active |
| London Handel Festival London, United Kingdom | active |
| International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival Buxton, United Kingdom | active |
| Lovebox Festival United Kingdom | active |
| Belfast International Tattoo Northern Ireland, United Kingdom | active |
| Larmer Tree Festival United Kingdom | active |
| Tramlines Festival United Kingdom | active |
| Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music London, United Kingdom | active |
| Glasgowbury Festival United Kingdom | active |
| Y Not Festival Derbyshire, United Kingdom | active |
| Xtra Bass United Kingdom | active |
| Cheltenham Jazz Festival United Kingdom | active |
| Isle of Wight Festival United Kingdom | active |
| 2000trees Withington, United Kingdom | active |
| Bestival Lulworth, United Kingdom | active |
| Boardmasters Festival United Kingdom | active |
| Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music United Kingdom | defunct |
| The Great Escape Festival Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom | active |
| Callander Jazz and Blues Festival United Kingdom | active |
| TRNSMT United Kingdom | active |
| Bang Face United Kingdom | active |
| ProgPower UK United Kingdom | active |
| Whitby Gothic Weekend United Kingdom | active |
| Boomtown United Kingdom | active |
| Camp Bestival Dorset, United Kingdom | active |
| Mendelssohn on Mull Festival Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom | active |
| Bingley Music Live Bingley, United Kingdom | active |
| Wychwood Festival Gloucestershire, United Kingdom | active |
| Cardiff Big Weekend Cardiff, United Kingdom | active |
| Brighton Early Music Festival Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom | active |
| Phun City United Kingdom | active |