Guides Glastonbury 2027: where things stand
Glastonbury ticket prices by year: 1970 to 2027
Almost every Glastonbury ticket price from £1 in 1970 to 2027, from the festival's history pages, with the deposit, balance and postage for each sale since 2023.
A Glastonbury ticket cost £1 in 1970 and costs £408 for 2027, including a £5 booking fee. The festival's own history pages give the price for almost every year in between. This guide puts them in one table, adds the deposit, balance and postage for each of the last four sales, and shows how quickly the price has risen.
Glastonbury ticket prices by year
Each price below is the ticket price as the festival's history page for that year gives it: select a year to open its page. The prices aren't adjusted for inflation.
| Festival | Ticket price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | £1 | Including free milk from the farm |
| 1971 | Free | |
| 1979 | £5 | |
| 1981 | £8 | |
| 1982 | £8 | |
| 1983 | £12 | Programme price 50p |
| 1984 | £13 | Programme price 80p |
| 1985 | £16 | Programme price 90p |
| 1986 | £17 | Programme price £1 |
| 1987 | £21 | |
| 1989 | £28 | Programme price £2 |
| 1990 | £38 | Programmes £3 |
| 1992 | £49 | Programme price £4 |
| 1993 | £58 | Programme price £4 |
| 1994 | £59 | Programme price £5 |
| 1995 | £65 | Programme price £5 |
| 1997 | £75 | Including the official programme |
| 1998 | £80 | Including the programme |
| 1999 | £83 | Including the programme |
| 2000 | £87 | Including the programme |
| 2002 | £97 | Including the programme |
| 2003 | £105 | Including the programme |
| 2004 | £112 | Including the programme |
| 2005 | £125 | Including the programme |
| 2007 | See the 2007 page | Including the programme |
| 2008 | £155 | Including the programme |
| 2009 | £175 | |
| 2010 | £185 | |
| 2011 | £195 | |
| 2013 to 2016 | Not given | The pages for these years don't give a price |
| 2017 | £238 | |
| 2019 | £248 | |
| 2022 | £280 | |
| 2023 | £335 | Plus a £5 booking fee, from Glasto Fest Feed's 2024 sale report |
| 2024 | £355 | Plus a £5 booking fee, from Glasto Fest Feed's 2024 sale report |
| 2025 | £378.50 | Including a £5 booking fee, from the festival's 2025 sale FAQ |
| 2027 | £408 | Including the £5 booking fee, from the festival's 2027 ticket announcement |
Years missing from the table have no page in the festival's history section. Some were years off: the festival's pages describe fallow years in 2012, 2018 and 2026, and a two year Covid break before 2022.
A note on the booking fee
None of the festival's history pages mentions a booking fee (we searched every one): they give only the ticket price. The booking fee for recent years comes from other sources. Glasto Fest Feed's report of the 2024 sale gave the price as £355 plus a £5 booking fee, and the 2023 price as £335 plus a £5 booking fee, so those two prices are before the fee (the festival's 2023 balance reminder also gives the balance as £285 plus a £5 booking fee). The festival's 2025 sale FAQ gives £378.50 including a £5 booking fee. For older years, treat the price as the one the festival quoted, not necessarily what buyers paid at the checkout.
The last four sales in detail
With a deposit paid at the sale and the balance the following April, the ticket price is only part of what you need to know. Here is how each part has changed:
| Festival | Price with the booking fee | Deposit | Balance in April | Postage per order |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | £340 (£335 plus £5) | £50 | £285 plus the £5 booking fee | £9.75 (£2.50 for coach e-tickets) |
| 2024 | £360 (£355 plus £5) | £75 | £280 plus the £5 booking fee | £9.95 (£2.75 for coach e-tickets) |
| 2025 | £378.50 | £75 | £303.50 | £10.25 (£2.75 for coach tickets) |
| 2027 | £408 | £100 | £308 | £11.25 (£3 for coach tickets) |
Where the figures come from: for 2023, the festival's balance payment reminder (the £50 deposit is the £335 price less the £285 balance); for 2024, Glasto Fest Feed's reports of the sale and the balance window; for 2025, the festival's sale FAQ (the balance is the price less the deposit); and for 2027, the festival's ticket announcement.
The deposit has doubled
The deposit went from £50 for 2023 to £75 for 2024 and 2025, and to £100 for 2027. Whoever makes a booking pays the deposit for every ticket in it on the day, and for 2027 a booking can hold up to 6 tickets. For a group of six in one booking that's £300 at the 2023 deposit, £450 at the 2024 and 2025 deposit, and £600 for 2027. How the deposit and balance work now is in deposits and balance payments.
Postage is per order, not per ticket
Postage rose from £9.75 to £11.25 over the four sales. It has been charged per order throughout, and the 2023 balance reminder pointed out that paying several balances together means paying postage once. Coach tickets have cost less to send in each of the four sales.
How fast the price has gone up
Taking the figures from the festival's pages:
- 1970 to 2000: from £1 to £87.
- 2000 to 2010: from £87 to £185, more than double in ten years.
- 2010 to 2019: from £185 to £248, about 34% in nine years.
- 2019 to 2022: from £248 to £280, about 13%.
- 2022 to 2023: from £280 to £335, about 20%.
- 2023 to 2027: with the booking fee included each time, from £340 to £360 to £378.50 to £408: rises of about 6%, 5% and 8%.
How long each of the recent sales took to sell out, and how the queue has changed, is in how fast Glastonbury tickets sell out.
What the price has included
The festival's 2027 ticket announcement says a ticket includes entry to over 4,000 performances on more than 100 stages, five nights camping with no early entry fees, a free programme, the free mobile app and phone charging, Kidzfield entertainment, rides and activities free of charge, and support for Oxfam, Greenpeace, WaterAid and hundreds of other causes.
The programme has a history of its own. In the 1980s and early 1990s the history pages give it a separate price (50p in 1983, £5 by 1994). From 1997 to 2008 they list it as included in the ticket.
Some things are paid for on top. For 2027 that's postage, a car park pass (£60, plus £3 postage where bought separately), a campervan pitch (£225 standard or £350 large, on the festival's info page) and optional Refund Protection, added when you pay the balance. A full 2027 budget, with a worked example for a group, is in how much Glastonbury 2027 costs.
What a resale ticket costs
For 2024, a resale ticket cost the same as one from the main sale, but you paid it all at once: Glasto Fest Feed reported that tickets bought in resales after 8 April 2024 cost £355 plus the £5 booking fee, paid in full when booking. The festival's info page says the same for 2027: tickets bought in resales after 8 April 2027 must be paid for in full at the point of booking. More in the 2027 resale.
If you paid a deposit and couldn't go
What comes back from an unpaid deposit has changed with the deposit. For 2023 the festival refunded half of a £50 deposit; for 2024, Glasto Fest Feed reported a £50 refund on a £75 deposit. For 2027 the info page says a £25 administration charge is kept from any deposit whose balance isn't paid by the end of the window, and the rest goes back to the card it was paid on. Ticket and coach bookings lose more: for 2023 and 2024 the sources say £40 in all was kept when one was cancelled, and for 2027 the info page says a £15 coach cancellation fee is kept on top of the £25. Refunds on fully paid tickets are in Glastonbury ticket refunds.
What this means for the next sale
- No price for 2028 yet. The festival's info page doesn't mention 2028 at all (we searched it). The 2027 price is the best guide you have, and every price in the table since 1983 is higher than the one before it.
- Have the deposit ready on the day. It has gone up twice in four sales, and the person booking pays it for everyone in the transaction.
- Book and pay together where you can. Postage is charged once per order.
- Only pay See Tickets. The festival sells its tickets only at glastonbury.seetickets.com. A ticket offered anywhere else, at any price, isn't a real one: see Glastonbury ticket scams.
Get your group ready for the next sale
Sources
- Glastonbury Festival: history, with a page for each year
- Glastonbury Festival: 2027 ticket information confirmed
- Glastonbury Festival: 2025 ticket sale FAQ
- Glastonbury Festival: 2023 ticket balance payments due 1 to 7 April
- Glastonbury Festival: info hub
- Glasto Fest Feed: 2024 ticket sale dates and prices
- Glasto Fest Feed: 2024 ticket balance payment and resale FAQ