Roskilde Festival Statistics: Attendance, Tickets and 2027 Dates

Roskilde Festival in Denmark is one of Europe's largest music festivals: 140,000 people came to the sold-out 2026 edition.¹ Roskilde Festival 2027 runs from 26 June to 3 July,² and tickets start at DKK 1,530 for one day.³ During festival week, the site becomes Denmark's fourth-largest city by population.⁴

At a glance

• 140,000 participants came to Roskilde Festival 2026, which sold out across all eight days.¹
• Roskilde Festival 2027 runs from 26 June to 3 July 2027, and the campsite stays open until Sunday 4 July.⁵
• A 2027 full festival ticket costs DKK 2,650 (about €355), a two-day ticket DKK 2,230 and a one-day ticket DKK 1,530.²
• The first 18 acts for 2027, out of almost 200 planned, include Tame Impala, Patti Smith Quartet and Kacey Musgraves.²
• The 2026 festival featured almost 180 music acts and more than 90 art and activism projects across 16 stages and experience spaces.¹
• Campervans, caravans and motorhomes can stay in Caravan Camping, which has toilets, running water and paid showers.⁶

Roskilde Festival 2026 sold out with 140,000 participants over its eight days.¹

• Roskilde was already drawing big crowds in the mid-2010s: it sold 102,000 tickets in 2014⁷ and welcomed more than 100,000 people in 2017⁸.
• Just before the pandemic, in 2018⁹ and 2019, more than 130,000 people gathered for the festival week each year¹⁰.
• After the pandemic cancelled the 2020 and 2021 festivals, Roskilde came back at the same size, with at least 130,000 participants in 2022¹¹, 2024¹² and 2025¹³.
• In 2026 the festival grew to 140,000 participants and sold out,¹ and the organisers plan for 130,000 participants, including 27,000 volunteers, in 2027.²
• On any single day, around 87,000 unique visitors are on site⁴, fewer than the total because many people come for only part of the week.

A full festival ticket for Roskilde Festival 2027 costs DKK 2,650 (about €355 including fees),² up from DKK 2,600 in 2026.⁴

• The full festival ticket rose from DKK 1,995 in 2016 to DKK 2,100 in 2019, and tickets for the cancelled 2020 edition were priced at DKK 2,250.¹⁷
• A 2027 two-day ticket costs DKK 2,230 and a one-day ticket DKK 1,530,² compared with DKK 2,200 and DKK 1,430 in 2026.⁴
• The full festival ticket covers all eight days, and one-day tickets are sold for the four main days, Wednesday 30 June to Saturday 3 July 2027.³

Roskilde Festival takes place just outside Copenhagen², so a campervan can be both your transport and your bed if you stay in the festival's Caravan Camping area.

• In Caravan Camping you can stay in your caravan, campervan or motorhome and set up an awning next to your vehicle.⁶
• The area has toilet facilities and running water, and showers are available for a fee.⁶
• The 2027 campsite opens on Saturday 26 June and closes on Sunday 4 July, so plan your arrival and departure around those dates.⁵
• As of October 2026, the festival had not yet announced its full 2027 Special Camping options or when they go on sale.⁵
• Without a vehicle, direct trains run from central Copenhagen to a station at the festival site in under 30 minutes.²

Roskilde Festival 2027 runs from Saturday 26 June to Saturday 3 July, with the campsite open until Sunday 4 July.⁵

• Roskilde traditionally spans the last days of June and the first days of July, and every recent edition, from 2017 to 2027, has kept to that window.
• The main music days in 2027 are Wednesday 30 June to Saturday 3 July;³ in 2026 the festival ran from 27 June to 4 July.⁴
• The first Roskilde Festival took place in 1971, and the 2027 festival will be the 55th edition.²

Roskilde Festival 2025 sold more than 100,000 tickets and presented 185 artists from 45 countries.¹³

• Artists came from more than 40 countries in 2019¹⁸, rising to 45 in 2025.
• Ticket sales tell a similar story: in 2017, tickets were sold in 82 countries, and 15% of tickets were sold abroad¹⁹.

According to the festival, the average participant is 24 years old, and around 27,000 volunteers help put the festival on.⁴

• They include around 1,500 year-round volunteers, about 1,000 who help in the busy run-up to the festival, around 9,000 who volunteer for the Roskilde Festival Association before, during and after the festival, and around 15,500 from partner associations and organisations.⁴
• In 2025, approximately 2,650 volunteers came from outside Denmark.⁴
• The festival does not currently publish a gender breakdown, the share of under-18s, how many are first-timers, or how many participants come from abroad.