Glastonbury tickets from abroad: cards, delivery and timing
Buying Glastonbury 2027 tickets from outside the UK: registering, the credit card rule, a UK friend booking for you, the balance and how tickets reach you.
Yes, you can buy Glastonbury tickets if you live outside the UK. You register in the same way as UK buyers and book in the same online sales at glastonbury.seetickets.com, but for 2027 the festival says international purchases can only be made with a Visa or Mastercard credit card. Tickets for buyers in the EU go by registered international post, and tickets for buyers outside the EU are held for box office collection, unless you're told otherwise.
This guide takes each step in order, from registering to getting your ticket, plus the shortcut the festival itself suggests: a friend who lives in the UK booking for you. Everything comes from the international bookings, payment and ticket dispatch sections of the festival's information page, read in full on 31 October 2026. Where a rule is from an earlier year, we say which.
The 2027 rules for overseas buyers in one table
| Question | 2027 answer |
|---|---|
| Do I need to register? | Yes, in the same way as UK buyers. Everyone aged 13 or over needs their own registration number |
| Which cards work? | Visa or Mastercard credit cards only, for international purchases. American Express isn't accepted |
| Can a friend in the UK book for me? | Yes, as one of their ticket purchases, as long as you're registered |
| What does a ticket cost? | £408, including the £5 booking fee: a £100 deposit, then the £308 balance plus postage |
| When is the balance due? | 9am on Thursday 1 April to 11.59pm on Wednesday 7 April 2027, UK time, the same as for UK buyers |
| Tickets for buyers in the EU | Registered international post, tracked through Royal Mail, unless specified otherwise |
| Tickets for buyers outside the EU | Box office collection, unless specified otherwise |
| Leaving home more than 28 days before the festival? | Ask See Tickets for box office collection |
Step 1: register before registration closes
The festival says all international ticket buyers must be registered in the same way as UK bookers. Registration is free and online, and needs basic contact details and a passport-style photo, which is printed on your ticket. The photo must be a jpeg, in portrait orientation, at least 900 pixels wide and 1,350 pixels tall, and to passport standard. The festival reviews photos within 48 hours in the working week, then emails you to say whether yours was accepted.
For the 2027 sales, registration closed at 5pm UK time on Friday 25 September 2026, and the festival says it will not reopen until after the October ticket sales. Those sales have now happened, but the information page doesn't yet give a date for it to reopen. From abroad, leave yourself time to submit a new photo if the first one is rejected, and use an email address you'll keep: the festival says you must have access to the email address you're registered to. Every step is in how to register for Glastonbury.
Step 2: check the card you'll pay with
For international purchases the festival accepts only Visa or Mastercard credit cards. A debit card issued outside the UK isn't on that list, and the festival says American Express isn't accepted from anyone. The 2025 resale had the same rule for international buyers: Visa or Mastercard credit cards only.
UK sales take more card types: Visa Debit, Visa Credit, Visa Electron, Switch/Maestro Domestic, Solo and Mastercard, and, depending on your device, Google Pay or Apple Pay. If you aren't a UK citizen but you're living in the UK, with a UK registered credit or debit card and a UK address, the festival says you can buy in the same way as a UK resident. For ticket sales, the UK includes Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.
Expect your bank to check the payment. The festival says UK and European banks add an extra layer of protection to online payments, such as a one-time passcode sent to your phone or a fingerprint or face check, and that your card issuer decides whether you need it. Keep the device you use for those checks with you, even if you book on a laptop.
Prices are in pounds. The festival doesn't say how a payment from a card in another currency is converted, so ask your card provider what it charges for a payment in pounds, and check your limit covers a deposit for everyone you might book: £100 a ticket, so £600 for six. More on cards, timers and declined payments is in the checkout guide.
Or ask a friend in the UK to book you
The festival describes two ways a UK resident can get you a ticket:
- Your friend buys on your behalf, using their UK address. The festival says an overseas resident can ask a friend who lives in the UK to do this.
- Your friend books you as one of their tickets. A UK resident can buy a ticket for an overseas resident as one of their own ticket purchases, as long as that person is registered.
Either way you still need your own registration, because your ticket carries your photo and nobody else can use it. On the booking page your friend enters the details from your registration, as they would for anyone else in a booking of up to six. If your friend is the first name on the booking, the tickets for the whole booking go to their address, unless balances are paid separately (see step 4). Agree before June how your ticket will get to you. How to plan a group booking is in the Glastonbury syndicate guide.
Step 3: the sale runs on UK time
Every sale time is UK time. For 2027 the ticket and coach sale opened at 6pm on Thursday 1 October 2026 and the general admission sale at 9am on Sunday 4 October, and tickets have now sold out. The festival says there will be a resale of cancelled and returned tickets in spring 2027. Its date hasn't been announced. In 2025 the resale opened at 6pm (BST) on Thursday 24 April for ticket and coach packages and at 9am (BST) on Sunday 27 April for general admission.
Work out the time where you'll be, and set your alarm by your local clock. The festival says to be online at least 10 minutes before the sale opens, because anyone who arrives after the start goes to the back of the queue. What each queue screen means is in how the queue works.
Resale tickets bought after 8 April 2027 must be paid in full when you book, so the whole price goes on one card. In 2025 a general admission resale booking could cover up to 4 tickets: four at £408 is £1,632 plus postage, a big payment for a credit card limit.
Step 4: paying the balance from abroad
The festival takes international balance payments at the same time as UK ones: from 9am on Thursday 1 April to 11.59pm on Wednesday 7 April 2027, UK time. Remembering is up to you. Any ticket whose balance isn't paid by the end of the window is refunded less the administration charge, which for 2027 is £25, so you'd get £75 back from a £100 deposit.
A group's balances can be paid together, or separately from different cards. Each ticket whose balance is paid separately becomes its own booking, with its own £11.25 postage and packing charge, and the festival says that person then receives their own ticket. Here's how that works for four friends, one of whom lives in Spain:
| How the balances are paid | UK lead booker pays | Friend in Spain pays | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| All four together by the lead booker | £1,243.25 | Nothing (pays the lead booker back) | £1,243.25 |
| The friend in Spain pays their own | £935.25 | £319.25 | £1,254.50 |
Paying separately costs one extra postage charge. Whichever you choose, write it down in the group chat before the window opens. What happens to a deposit if a balance is missed is in deposits and balance payments.
Step 5: how your ticket reaches you
General admission tickets are physical tickets, and how they reach you depends on where you live:
| Where you live | How 2027 tickets are sent |
|---|---|
| The UK | Royal Mail, in late May to June, signed for on delivery |
| The EU | Registered international post, unless specified otherwise. Track it at royalmail.com with the tracking number from See Tickets' order tracker |
| Outside the EU | Box office collection, unless specified otherwise |
The international bookings section also says international tickets will be box office collection only unless specified otherwise, and to check the order tracker for the details of your order. So whichever applies to you, the order tracker is where to look. You need your email address and booking reference to use it, and the festival says only the lead booker can see the dispatch information.
If you're likely to set off for the festival more than 28 days before it starts, the festival says to contact See Tickets through its customer service form and request box office collection. Tickets are expected to arrive at least 7 days before the festival starts: if yours haven't, contact See Tickets. And if you move after booking, tell See Tickets, because changing the address on your registration doesn't change where your tickets are sent.
Collecting from the box office
The information page doesn't say where the box office is or when it opens, so follow the instructions in your order tracker and in any email from See Tickets. Your ticket carries the photo from your registration: the festival says that as long as the photo is a good likeness, you don't need ID to enter, but every ticket holder must show their own ticket at the gates.
Ticket and coach packages
Coach packages work differently. The travel voucher is emailed as an e-ticket, usually from mid-May, and your festival ticket is handed out on the coach once it has left the pick-up point, so have photo ID with you. You must travel on the coach you booked, from the departure town you chose, and coach tickets can't be changed to general admission. See coach tickets.
Getting to the festival from abroad
The festival's travel advice, which gives no year, says the closest international airport is Bristol, which serves a number of European destinations. From the airport, the A1 Bristol Airport Flyer bus goes to Bristol Temple Meads station; from the main road outside the station, buses 374, 375 and 376 go to Glastonbury town, where you can catch the GF1 bus to the Festival Bus Station on site. National Express also runs coaches from Heathrow Airport directly to the festival, with return tickets booked in advance. Check that advice again nearer June.
Once you're there, the festival says its cash machines accept all UK and international cards. If you look under 21 and want to buy alcohol, a valid passport is on its list of ID for proving you're over 18.
If things go wrong
- Your card is declined. Check it's a Visa or Mastercard credit card, not a debit card, that its limit covers every deposit, and approve the payment in your bank's app if asked. Then try a second credit card.
- You aren't registered in time. Nobody can book you without a registration, from the UK or abroad. Register as soon as registration reopens, ready for the resale.
- Your tickets haven't arrived 7 days before the festival. Contact See Tickets customer service.
- You can't come after all. Refunds are open until 11.59pm UK time on 7 May 2027, with £25 kept from each ticket. Ticket and coach bookings also have a £15 coach cancellation fee kept on top of that, and you can't cancel just the coach: it's the whole booking or nothing. See Glastonbury ticket refunds.
- Someone offers you a ticket. Tickets carry the holder's photo, can't be transferred, and reselling them gets the order cancelled. Only buy at glastonbury.seetickets.com. See how to spot Glastonbury ticket scams.
What we couldn't confirm
The festival's information page doesn't say where the box office is, when it opens or what you need to collect tickets there. It doesn't explain how a registration works for an address with no UK postcode, or how a payment in another currency is converted. It gives one postage and packing charge, £11.25 per order, with no separate charge listed for sending tickets abroad. If any of these matter to you, ask See Tickets before the sale.
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