Reading Festival 2026 Tickets: Day Prices, Availability, Resale & Where to Buy
- Six of the nine ticket types on the festival’s own tickets page are sold out, including every weekend ticket and every camping ticket. What is left is single-day, non-camping entry for the three arena days.
- Day prices are £205 for Friday, £205 for Saturday and £125 for Sunday. Sunday is £80 cheaper than the other two, and it is the only saving available.
- Only one of the two authorised sellers still has stock. Ticketmaster is listing all three days; See Tickets, the other authorised agent, shows the festival as ‘Contact venue for tickets’.
- There is no official face-value resale. The festival names Viagogo, TicketSwap, Tixel, StubHub, eBay and Gumtree as unauthorised and says the promoter has supplied none of them with tickets.
- The festival runs Thursday 27 to Sunday 30 August at Richfield Avenue. Day tickets cover the arena on Friday, Saturday or Sunday only — Thursday is a campsite day for weekend ticket holders.
Everything except single-day tickets has gone. Two days before Reading Festival 2026 opens, six of the nine ticket types on the festival’s own page are sold out — every weekend ticket, every camping ticket and all three two-day combinations. What is left is one day at a time, in the arena, without a tent.
The prices for those are £205 for Friday, £205 for Saturday and £125 for Sunday.
Can you still get Reading Festival 2026 tickets?
Yes, but only single-day tickets, and only from one seller. The festival’s tickets page lists nine ticket types. Three are on sale — Friday, Saturday and Sunday — and six are sold out. Each of the three was open on Ticketmaster when this page was written, with a limit of four tickets per order.
How much are Reading Festival 2026 day tickets?
£205 for Friday, £205 for Saturday and £125 for Sunday, each described by Ticketmaster as a Day Non-Camping ticket. Sunday is £80 cheaper than the other two days, which is the only price difference available to you.
| Day | Ticket | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Friday 28 Aug | Day, non-camping | £205 |
| Saturday 29 Aug | Day, non-camping | £205 |
| Sunday 30 Aug | Day, non-camping | £125 |
Ticketmaster states that all ticket categories use fixed tier pricing, so the price does not move with demand in the hours before the gates open — worth knowing at a sold-out event, where dynamic pricing would otherwise be the thing to fear. It also caps orders at four tickets and warns that all under-16s must be accompanied by an adult ticket holder aged 18 or over who has to remain on site. It also offers to split the cost across instalments; the festival’s own page describes securing a ticket with a £50 deposit and paying the rest monthly.
What has sold out?
Everything that includes a campsite, and everything that covers more than one day. The six sold-out types are the weekend non-camping ticket, weekend camping, weekend plus early entry camping, and the Friday-and-Saturday, Friday-and-Sunday and Saturday-and-Sunday non-camping combinations.
That pattern is worth reading before you plan a trip. There is no route to a tent on site through the official page any more, so a day ticket means travelling in and out on the day.
One camping option does still appear to be on sale, and it is the trap on this page. The LOTUS boutique tents are listed from £1,048.25 to £868.25 and marked limited availability. Their own small print says: “Festival Tickets are not included in the accommodation price, each person staying in your accommodation must have a weekend camping ticket booked separately.” Weekend camping tickets are sold out. Unless you already hold one, an £868 bell tent buys you a very well-appointed place to sleep outside a festival you cannot enter.
Where should you actually buy them?
Ticketmaster, which the festival calls its primary agent. The festival’s own information page states plainly: “The only authorised sellers for Pepsi MAX presents Reading Festival are: Ticketmaster (the primary agent) SeeTickets No other agents are authorised to”
Of those two, only Ticketmaster currently has anything. See Tickets lists the festival but shows “Contact venue for tickets” rather than a buy option, which is what an authorised agent looks like when its allocation is gone. Every buy link on the festival’s own tickets page points to Ticketmaster.
The safest route is to start there rather than at a search engine: open the festival’s own tickets page and follow its buy button, so the seller you land on is the one the festival put there.
Is there an official Reading Festival resale?
No. Some UK festivals run a face-value resale that cancels the original ticket when it resells — Boomtown’s is a working example. Reading is not doing that. There is no resale programme on the festival’s tickets page, no waiting list, and no exchange marketplace.
The practical consequence is that if the three day tickets sell out, the official routes are closed. There is no second wave to wait for two days before the gates open.
What about Viagogo, StubHub and TicketSwap?
The festival names them and tells you not to use them. Its own wording is: “Beware of unauthorised ticket agencies and listings (including Viagogo, TicketSwap, Tixel, Stubhub, eBay, Gumtree and social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram or TikTok).”
It goes further than a general warning. Festival Republic states that it has supplied none of those sites with tickets and cannot guarantee the authenticity of anything they are offering, and that any listing on an unauthorised site cannot be guaranteed to gain entry. On touts at the gate it is blunter still: “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 th”
This page does not link to any of them. If you want to check whether a site is authorised, the festival gives an address for exactly that question: info@readingfestival.com .
If you have already bought from one, the festival’s own advice is to treat it as a possible scam rather than a done deal: it points people to Action Fraud, the UK’s reporting centre for fraud and cybercrime, and says it monitors the internet for fraudulent listings. None of that guarantees your ticket is bad — it means the promoter will not stand behind it at the gate, which is a different and more useful thing to know two days out.
Can you change your ticket to a different day?
Sometimes, through the festival rather than through resale. The festival’s information page carries a form for existing ticket holders who “wish to exchange or upgrade your ticket(s) to a different day or from single-day to weekend tickets.”
That is the closest thing to an official secondary route here, and it is worth trying before anything else if you hold the wrong day. It is a request to the festival, not a marketplace, so treat it as something that may be declined rather than a guaranteed swap.
What can you actually add to a day ticket?
Less than the add-on list suggests, because most of it needs a ticket that is sold out. The car park passes are the clearest case: the White Weekend Campervan Pass small print states that “All occupants of the vehicle must hold either a Weekend Camping ticket or a Weekend Camping + Early Entry ticket. Weekend Non-Camping tickets are not valid for use with White Weekend Campervan Passes.” The Green Car Park Pass is sold out outright; the White Weekend Car Park Pass is £55.50 and is a weekend pass.
What does work alongside a day ticket is the Lounge upgrade at £68.50 per person for the day, with the same caveat printed on its own card — “This upgrade does not include a festival ticket, price displayed is per person.” — and the festival adds that there are no views of the main stage from it. A souvenir ticket, the physical keepsake rather than an entry ticket, is £4.95.
The pattern across all of it is the same. The add-ons that remain were designed to sit on top of a weekend camping ticket, and that ticket is the one thing you can no longer buy.
When does Reading Festival 2026 actually run?
Reading Festival 2026 will take place on Thursday, 27th – Sunday, 30th August 2026 at Richfield Avenue in Reading. Day tickets cover the arena on Friday, Saturday or Sunday; Thursday is not a day-ticket day.
The campsite timings matter if you are still hoping something changes. Early entry campers were admitted from 18:00 Wednesday 26th August 2026, weekend campers from 08:00 Thursday 27th August 2026, and the campsite closes at midday Monday 31st August 2026. With every camping ticket sold out, none of that is purchasable now — it is context for what you are choosing between, which is one day in the arena or none.