Guide

Festival Weather by Month

Month-by-month weather for the world's biggest music festivals: typical highs, overnight lows, rainfall and our weather score, from early-summer festivals through to September.

How to read these numbers

Each festival is grouped by the month its main days fall in. The temperatures, rainfall and weather score are long-run averages from roughly 15 years of Open-Meteo archive data taken at the venue coordinates on the festival's own calendar dates — not a generic city-wide monthly average.

The weather score condenses all of it into one number between 0 and 100: rain sets a ceiling, and daytime and overnight temperatures move the score within it. Roughly, 80+ is reliably excellent, 60–80 is a good bet, and below 50 means packing for weather is part of the plan.

April

Spring festivals trade heat for space: pleasant afternoons, but nights that still feel like winter in a tent.

FestivalDatesHighLowRain/dayScore
🇺🇸 CoachellaApr 10 – Apr 19 202630.3°C17.2°C0.3mm99

May

Late spring is a gamble — the first genuinely warm weekends, mixed with unsettled fronts.

FestivalDatesHighLowRain/dayScore
🇺🇸 EDC Las VegasMay 15 – May 17 202631.0°C18.2°C0.1mm100

June

Early summer brings long daylight and mild highs, but Northern Europe's June nights stay cool and showers are common.

FestivalDatesHighLowRain/dayScore
🇪🇸 PrimaveraJun 4 – Jun 6 202624.0°C16.1°C1.1mm97
🇪🇸 SónarJun 18 – Jun 20 202625.5°C18.3°C1.2mm97
🇬🇧 GlastonburyJun 23 – Jun 27 202720.3°C12.2°C1.6mm96
🇩🇰 TinderboxJun 25 – Jun 27 202620.9°C12.8°C1.5mm96
🇩🇰 CopenhellJun 17 – Jun 20 202619.5°C13.1°C1.9mm94
🇫🇷 HellfestJun 18 – Jun 21 202622.9°C14.4°C2.4mm94
🇺🇸 BonnarooJun 11 – Jun 14 202629.4°C19.0°C2.5mm93
🇩🇰 NorthSideJun 4 – Jun 6 202618.7°C11.0°C1.8mm92
🇧🇪 GraspopJun 18 – Jun 21 202621.8°C13.6°C3.2mm91
🇬🇧 DownloadJun 12 – Jun 14 202618.2°C10.4°C3.2mm86

July

Peak season. The warmest, driest averages of the year across most of Europe and North America — and the highest thunderstorm risk inland.

FestivalDatesHighLowRain/dayScore
🇭🇷 Ultra EuropeJul 10 – Jul 12 202630.2°C21.0°C0.6mm99
🇩🇪 ParookavilleJul 17 – Jul 19 202624.4°C15.0°C1.4mm97
🇧🇪 TomorrowlandJul 17 – Jul 26 202624.5°C15.3°C2.0mm95
🇧🇪 Rock WerchterJul 2 – Jul 5 202622.9°C13.8°C1.8mm95
🇺🇸 LollapaloozaJul 30 – Aug 2 202626.4°C19.5°C2.0mm95
🇩🇰 RoskildeJul 1 – Jul 4 202620.2°C13.1°C2.6mm93
🇩🇪 WackenJul 30 – Aug 1 202621.8°C14.4°C3.2mm91
🇳🇱 AwakeningsJul 10 – Jul 12 202622.6°C14.1°C3.4mm87
🇯🇵 Fuji RockJul 24 – Jul 26 202628.1°C19.6°C7.8mm65

August

Still hot, and typically the driest month in Southern Europe and the American West, while northern sites start cooling in the evenings.

FestivalDatesHighLowRain/dayScore
🇺🇸 Burning ManAug 30 – Sep 7 202630.1°C16.9°C0.2mm100
🇬🇧 ReadingAug 28 – Aug 30 202619.7°C12.1°C0.8mm97
🇭🇺 SzigetAug 11 – Aug 15 202628.3°C17.5°C1.4mm96
🇷🇴 UntoldAug 6 – Aug 9 202627.7°C16.9°C2.1mm95
🇫🇮 FlowAug 7 – Aug 9 202621.6°C15.3°C1.9mm95
🇳🇱 DekmantelAug 1 – Aug 2 202622.3°C14.6°C2.3mm94
🇺🇸 Outside LandsAug 7 – Aug 9 202618.1°C13.2°C0.0mm94
🇳🇱 MysterylandAug 21 – Aug 23 202621.8°C15.1°C2.5mm93
🇩🇰 SmukfestAug 5 – Aug 9 202620.5°C13.6°C3.0mm91
🇩🇰 KarruselAug 27 – Aug 29 202619.4°C14.2°C3.0mm89
🇬🇧 LeedsAug 28 – Aug 30 202617.9°C11.0°C1.3mm89
🇬🇧 CreamfieldsAug 27 – Aug 30 202617.9°C11.3°C1.9mm88

Picking a month

If you want the best odds of warm, dry weather, mid-July to late August is the sweet spot almost everywhere in the northern hemisphere. If you care more about avoiding heat — or about sleeping well — late June and September give you comfortable afternoons at the cost of colder nights. Whatever month you pick, the individual festival pages show the live forecast as soon as the dates come into range.