The Essentials
Leeds Festival 2027 will take place on Thursday, 26th – Sunday, 29th August 2027 at Bramham Park in Leeds. Weekend Early Entry Camping Ticket holders can access the campsites from Wednesday 25th August.
Campsite opening hours:
• Weekend + Early Entry Camping Ticket holders: 12:00 Noon on Wednesday 25th August 2027
• Weekend Camping Ticket holders: 03:00 on Thursday 26th August 2027
After which the campsite is open 24 Hours, individuals can arrive at any time.
Campsites close at 12:00 Noon on Monday 30th August 2027 for all ticket holders.
Arena opening hours:
Thursday 27th August 2026: 17:00 – 00:30
Friday 28th August 2026: 11:00 – 00:30
Saturday 29th August 2026: 11:00 – 00:30
Sunday 30th August 2026: 11:00 – 00:30
All times are subject to change.
With a day ticket, you cannot leave and re-enter the arena, and you will not have access to the campsites, LS23 Stage or Picadilly Party Stage.
With a weekend camping ticket, you can leave and re-enter the arena and campsites.
With a weekend non-camping ticket, you cannot leave and re-enter the arena, and you will not have access to the campsites, LS23 Stage or Picadilly Party Stage
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.
We operate a Challenge 21 policy
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 note, your ID must be in date in order to be valid.
Make sure you download the official festival app to keep up to date with set times, announcements, maps and special offers.
LEEDS PROHIBITED ITEMS
There will be no receipts issued for any confiscated/surrendered items and they will not be available to collect after the festival.You may be subject to more enhanced searches of bags and personal belongings. We request that you cooperate with any security requests and searches. Please pack light!Please note, campfires and disposable BBQs are banned from both the campsite and the arena in 2026
Stove fuel limited to maximum of 1L per stove and maximum of x4 gas canisters of 250mls or less per stove. Any liquid fuel such as Meth Stoves (with 1L methylated fuel/spirit max) and/or Trangia Stoves (1L Trangia fuel max) should be in an appropriate approved container to ensure that it can be used and stored safely.
Accessibility Customers Prohibited Item Policy
Food:
All customers are permitted to bring a small amount of food for personal consumption into the arena. Accessibility customers are permitted to bring additional food in excess of the usual amount into the arena.
(This increased allowance applies to accessibility customers only and not to essential companions or friends and family).
Drink:
All customers are permitted to bring a sealed, unopened 500ml bottle of water or soft drink into the arena.
Accessibility customers are permitted to bring one sealed, unopened bottle up to 1.5l of water or soft drink into the arena.
(This increased allowance applies to accessibility customers only and not to essential companions or friends and family).
Bag Restrictions in the Arena:
For security reasons, we ordinarily only permit customers to bring a small bag (A4 size) into the arena. Accessibility customers are entitled to bring a bigger bag into the arena. (One bag only per accessibility customer).
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Entry into Campsites
We do not have bag restrictions for first time entry, although we do advise packing as light as possible. Please take note of our full list of prohibited items (in ‘What You Can and Can’t Bring’ category above).
Arena
We strongly advise you do not bring a bag into the Arena as there will be long queues while all bags are searched. If you do wish to bring a bag, please ensure that it is no bigger than A4 (sized 8.27”x11.69”). There is a limit of one A4 sized bag per person permitted into the Arena.

You and your bag may be subject to a search upon entering the campsites and arena. CCTV is in operation throughout the festival site.
Please be patient if there are longer queues than normal. We request that you cooperate with any security requests and searches.
We don’t accept any discrimination towards any individual or groups of individuals. Irrespective of the background of the individual, be that gender, race, disability, age, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity. We are proud of the diverse nature of our festivals and their customers, if you see or experience anyone undermining this – no matter the severity – please report it immediately to one of our onsite staff.
To report lost property please visit Festival Angels Lost Property.
Please visit https://www.leedsfestivalangels.org.uk/lost-property.html for details.
All reasonable attempts will be made to reunite lost items with their owners where possible (i.e. numbers will be called on phones, wallets with addresses contacted). After a period of 6 weeks, any unclaimed items will be donated to charity or in the case of passports, bank cards and driving licences, these will be returned to the correct bank, passport and DVLA office.
The Event is produced for the enjoyment of all attendees. We reserve the right to evict anyone from site for the reasons outlined below. The decision whether to evict will be at the discretion of the Eviction Team / Security Coordinator following advice from security personnel.
Reasons for eviction:
- Entering or being inside the Event without a ticket or relevant pass/ wristband;
- Unacceptable, disruptive or anti-social behaviour; *
- Having been arrested or cautioned in connection with a criminal offence, pending or post-hand-over to the Police.
*Unacceptable behaviour that can lead to eviction includes but is not limited to:
Illegal activity;
- breaching the terms and conditions of entry;
- failing to submit to a search as a condition of entry:
- harassing or causing distress to staff or other attendees including (but not limited to) sexual harassment, discrimination, abusive behaviour, and offensive language;
- filming or photographing staff in a manner likely to constitute harassment or cause distress
- throwing any objects in the direction of people;
- encouraging others to behave badly by incitement;
- preventing security or emergency responders reacting to a situation;
- building or fueling fires including throwing gas canisters onto fires;
- committing a criminal offence but not arrested by the police;
- in possession of unlawful drugs;
- unofficially selling alcohol, tobacco, counterfeit goods or any other unauthorised goods;
ticket touting; - any other behaviour that leaves the Event open to prosecution or is not conducive to maintaining a safe Event.
All evictees will be processed via Eviction Team / Security Coordinator, and their wristbands / tickets will be removed to prevent them from re-entering the Event.
All persons presented for eviction by security will be interviewed by the Eviction Team / Security Coordinator who are independent of security, and their details will be recorded in a database with their full personal details, a photograph, date and time and the reasons for eviction.
All evictees will be able to make a free telephone call if they do not have a mobile phone to contact members of their group and/or family.
Evictees will need to phone a friend at the Event to collect their belongings before their eviction as they will not be permitted back into the Event to find them. We will not be responsible for ensuring that they leave the Event with their belongings.
Evictees will receive a letter detailing the eviction process.
Evictees are liable to receive a life time ban from purchasing tickets or working/volunteering for any LNE / FR Events.
Tickets
Early Entry + Weekend Camping, Weekend Camping and Weekend Non-Camping Tickets for 2027 can be purchased via our Tickets page below.
Payment Plans are available at the Ticketmaster Checkout. Secure a Weekend Ticket with a £20 deposit and pay the rest in monthly instalments.
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 Brown 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.
Enjoy four days of music and camping from Thursday.
Secure your ticket with a £20 deposit, followed by monthly instalments - choose 'Ticketmaster Instalments' at checkout.
Weekend Camping Tickets allow access to campsites – from Thursday, 26th August 2027 until close of campsite on Monday, 30th August 2027 –, access to the Arena on all show days and access to campsite entertainment including LS23 and Picaddily Party Stages.
Weekend Camping Tickets will be swapped for a wristband that allows for unlimited re-entry to and from the site for the weekend wristband holder.
Your Weekend Camping Ticket includes camping in our general admission campsites – just turn up and pick your spot. More info on bespoke campsite options coming soon.
Secure your ticket with a £20 deposit, followed by monthly instalments - choose 'Ticketmaster Instalments' at checkout.
Weekend Non-Camping tickets allow daily access the arena for all three days of music, Friday - Sunday.
You will not be able to leave and re-enter throughout the day with this ticket type.
You will not have to access the campsites or campsite entertainment including LS23 and Picadilly Party stages with this ticket.
All weekend 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 Leeds Festival are:
Ticketmaster (the primary agent)
SeeTickets
Leeds Ticket Hub
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 Facebook). Action Fraud have some good advice on how to spot a fraudulent ticket and how to report it. If not sold out, tickets are available at the event on-site box offices. Do not buy from ticket touts as you are unlikely to get in to the event with whatever they sell you.
If you have been the victim of a ticket scam please report the website 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, you can call our information line on 020 7009 3333.
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
Service Charges per ticket and Handling Fees per order may vary depending on the delivery method. Delivery fees may apply and can vary depending on your address and delivery method.
Accessibility
ACCESSIBLE FACILITIES
Accessible Campsite
The accessible campsite is a secure, safe space where the accessibility team and stewards will be based throughout the festival to assist you. The following
facilities are available within this campsite:
- A dedicated accessibility information hub.
- Wheelchair accessible and standard unisex toilets.
- Wheelchair accessible and standard unisex showers.
- Accessible routes.
- Changing places unit featuring an adult changing bed, toilet, sink and hoist (please note that hoist slings will not be available. Please remember to bring your own).
- Charging facilities for wheelchairs and medical equipment.
- Accessible sink and drinking water points.
- Secure fridge to store medication.
- Essential electric power supply (if requested and approved).
- Food traders.
- Merchandise stand.
- Get Ready With Me Tent
Accessible viewing areas
There are raised viewing platforms and ground viewing areas available within the arena.
Accessible toilets
Wheelchair accessible and standard toilets for accessibility customers are located across the arena. They are available to all accessibility customers.
Changing places units
There are changing places units featuring an adult changing bed, toilet, sink, and hoist.
Accessibility entrances
There are dedicated entrances for accessibility customers to access the arena.
Information hubs
There are information hubs in the arena.
Sensory calm space
There is a Sensory Calm Tent located within the arena. The aim of this space is to provide a safe, low-level stimulation and recalibration zone for any customers who need to use them.
Bars
Dedicated accessible lanes are available at each main bar. This section of the bar has a lowered counter and bypasses the main queuing system.
2027
Applications for the use of accessible facilities will open later in the year. Sign up to be notified when applications open.
Accessibility tickets are not sold separately. Please buy a standard ticket first, then apply for use of the accessible facilities. Please note, you will need to have either a Nimbus Access Card or Digital Access Pass to apply. If you don’t have one, you can register with Nimbus for a free Digital Access Pass.
There is no need to buy a ticket for your essential companion. These are allocated through the application process.
If you have any queries that aren’t answered here, we have a dedicated Accessibility Team working all year round to assist customers. Please don’t hesitate to contact them using the Leeds Accessibility Contact Form.
