Glastonbury Tickets Hit Record £408, Up 51% From Pre-Pandemic Asking Price

Glastonbury Festival tickets will cost more than £400 for the first time in 2027, extending a run of price increases that has lifted the cost of attending by more than 50% from the price set before the pandemic.

General admission for the June 23-27, 2027 festival will cost £408 including a £5 booking fee, plus postage and packing. That is £29.50, or about 7.8%, more than the £378.50 charged for the 2025 festival and represents a new nominal record for Glastonbury.

But the latest one-year increase understates how quickly prices have climbed.

When tickets for the planned 2020 Glastonbury went on sale in October 2019, general admission was £265 plus a £5 booking fee, or £270 in total. The 2020 and 2021 festivals were ultimately canceled because of the pandemic, and returning ticket holders eventually paid £280 plus the £5 fee for the festival’s 2022 return.

That makes the new £408 price 51% higher than the £270 price originally set for the 2020 festival and 43% higher than the £285 ultimately charged in 2022.

The increase is even larger when measured against the last Glastonbury actually held before the pandemic. Admission for the 2019 festival cost £248 plus a £5 booking fee, meaning the 2027 price is 61% higher in eight festival years.

Festival	General Admission Including Booking Fee
2019	£253
2020 planned	£270
2022	£285
2023	£340
2024	£360
2025	£378.50
2027	£408

Glastonbury’s own ticket announcements show particularly sharp increases after the pandemic. The price jumped to £340 in 2023, rose another £20 to £360 in 2024 and reached £378.50 in 2025 before breaking through £400 for 2027.

The growth has also considerably outpaced general consumer inflation in Britain.

The U.K. Consumer Prices Index stood at 108.3 in October 2019, when the £270 Glastonbury price was on sale. The latest available reading from the Office for National Statistics puts the index at 142.9 in July 2026, an increase of about 32%. A £270 ticket that had risen at the same rate as overall consumer prices would cost approximately £356 today — more than £50 below Glastonbury’s new price.

That is not necessarily a measure of Glastonbury’s own costs, which can rise much differently than consumer prices overall. Festival co-organizer Emily Eavis has previously pointed to sharply higher operating costs and the financial damage from the pandemic when defending earlier increases. The event also bundles substantially more than a single concert: Glastonbury says admission includes more than 4,000 performances across more than 100 stages, five nights of camping and other amenities, while the festival contributes more than £3 million annually to charitable causes.

Still, the price increases are particularly notable because Glastonbury does not operate anything resembling an open market for its tickets.

The festival says that, as part of its efforts to prevent ticket touting, tickets are “strictly non-transferable.” Each ticket carries a photograph of the registered buyer, and security checks are intended to make sure only that person can use it. See Tickets is the exclusive authorized general admission seller.

Under Glastonbury’s recent ticket rules, a buyer who later cannot attend cannot simply transfer the ticket to a friend or sell it to another fan. Returned and canceled tickets instead go back into an official Glastonbury resale conducted through See Tickets. The festival’s 2025 guidance expressly told buyers that tickets and deposits could not be transferred to another person.

That makes Glastonbury different from events where promoters have defended higher primary prices or market-based pricing as a way of capturing money that would otherwise flow to secondary-market sellers.

Glastonbury has already largely removed that secondary market. Its £408 price is therefore not a market-clearing price discovered through buyers and sellers trading tickets with one another. It is the price established by the festival for essentially all ordinary authorized supply, while ticket holders themselves are prevented from testing what their tickets might subsequently be worth.

Strong demand may ultimately show that Glastonbury could have charged even more. But because tickets cannot freely change hands, there is no functioning secondary market to determine that price. Likewise, if demand or a buyer’s circumstances change, a ticket holder cannot simply sell an unwanted ticket — potentially even for less than face value — as they could with a transferable ticket.

Glastonbury has long argued that its system ensures tickets remain in the hands of genuine festivalgoers rather than touts. Its 2024 guidance said canceled tickets would be returned for an official resale and described the registration system as a way to ensure tickets were sold at face value.

But “face value” itself is becoming considerably more expensive. The festival controls both the initial selling price and whether buyers can subsequently transfer what they purchased, and its authorized price has now climbed more than 50% from the level established before the pandemic.

For 2027, ticket-and-coach packages will go on sale at 6 p.m. BST on Oct. 1, followed by general admission at 9 a.m. BST on Oct. 4. Registration closes at 5 p.m. BST Sept. 25. Buyers can reserve up to six tickets with a £100-per-person deposit, with the remaining £308 plus postage due April 1-7.

No 2027 lineup has yet been announced.

At £408, however, anyone who does secure a spot at Worthy Farm already knows one thing: they will be paying the highest Glastonbury ticket price yet for a ticket that remains locked to the individual buyer.