Tickets

Join us from 26-29 August 2027.‍

‍Sign up for early access to secure a 2027 Weekend Ticket with a £10 deposit and pay the rest in monthly instalments.

Early Access tickets will be available at 10am on Friday 4th September and will be exclusive to email subscribers and app users. You will be emailed your ticket link in advance. Please switch your app notifications on.‍

‍‍General on sale starts at 10am Friday 11th September via the Reading Website.

We welcome all ages to the festival. However, there are entry restrictions for under 16s and we do advise not bringing young children. Anyone 15 and under must be accompanied by a ticket holder over 18 years old at all times. Children under 13 years are admitted free. ID may be required upon entry to the event.

For information purposes only, age checks will also be carried out on the entrance gates.

Please note our policy has changed from Challenge 21 > Challenge 25.

Please bring ID if you look under 25 years old and remember that legally there is no automatic right to be served alcohol. Service is always at the discretion of the licensee for whatever reason they decide, and the licensee is under no obligation to explain the reason.

The following forms of identification are accepted:

• A Passport (Not a photocopy)
• Full Driving Licence or Provisional Licence
• A Proof of Age Card bearing a PASS hologram
• A Ministry of Defence identity card
• A National identity card issued by an EU member state

Please bring the original document as you won’t be able to use a photocopied version. If you don’t have any of these, or don’t want to lose valuable documents on site, we suggest that you apply for a PASS approved ID, some of which are free to get.

Please note, your ID must be in date in order to be valid.

We do not accept any parental or supervisory duty of care or liability for any under 18’s on site.

Young Children
Whilst we do allow under 13s to attend for free, we do suggest that this event is not suitable for young children. If you do want to bring children along we advise camping in the White Campsite which is expected to be our quietest campsite.

On entering the event, children will be given Tyvek wristbands which have space for you to write your telephone number (as a parent or guardian). We can use this as a primary contact to reunite you. Replacements can be picked up at the Wellbeing Tent.

All tickets must be exchanged for a wristband on first entry. Wristbands are not transferable between people and are void if cut, removed or tampered with.

TRUSTED TICKET PARTNERS

The only authorised sellers for Reading Festival are:

• Ticketmaster (the primary agent)
• SeeTickets

No other agents are authorised to sell and any listing on unauthorised site cannot be guaranteed to gain entry to the events.

Beware of unauthorised ticket agencies and listings (including Viagogo, TicketSwap, Tixel, Stubhub, eBay, Gumtree and social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram or TikTok). Action Fraud have some good advice on how to spot a fraudulent ticket and how to report it. We do not sell tickets at the event site and do not buy from ticket touts as you are unlikely to get in with whatever they sell you.

If you have been the victim of a ticket scam please report your case to Action Fraud.

We have compiled a guide to avoiding touts and unauthorised websites and agents. We recommend you DO NOT BUY from these sites. We the promoter (Festival Republic) have not supplied any of these sites with any festival tickets and cannot guarantee the authenticity of any tickets they may be offering for sale.  For more information see our guide here.

If you would like confirmation that a website is authorised or not, please reach out to info@readingfestival.com.

We monitor the internet and do what we can to prevent fraudulent activity but the best way to prevent fraud is to not risk buying from unauthorised sources.

For more information and advice on unauthorised ticket agents please see below