Airlie Beach Music Festival — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

4–6 Nov 2026 (3 days)

Location

Airlie Beach, Airlie Beach, Australia

Sound

Multi-Genre

Tickets

€90 – €180 · 2 tiers tracked

Nearest airport

Whitsunday Coast Airport

Venue type

Natural site

Best nearby base

Proserpine · 30 km · about 30 min

On-site camping

Not listed

Line-up announced

18 artists so far

The story

The Airlie Beach Music Festival will take place from November 6-8, 2026, in Airlie Beach, Queensland, Australia. This festival features performances on the Main Stage under a tent close to the Coral Sea, alongside various gigs hosted in local cafes and restaurants. The event is designed to create an energetic atmosphere throughout the town, attracting audiences with a blend of iconic acts and rising stars. The festival is family-friendly and encompasses a multi-genre music experience.

Airlie Beach Music Festival is a 3-day multi-genre festival at Airlie Beach in Airlie Beach, Australia. The November 2026 edition runs 4–6 Nov 2026.

Announced so far: 19-Twenty, Adam Harvey, Carinda Christie Band, Elestial, Harrison Cramond, Jc And The Tree, Little Quirks and Loonaloop and 10 more. The line-up is spread across the 3 festival days, so a full-weekend ticket is the only way to catch every name.

Everything happens at Airlie Beach, in Airlie Beach. Proserpine · 30 km · about 30 min is the organiser's practical nearby base for accommodation and transfers to the festival site.

Airlie Beach Music Festival keeps the same calendar slot each year: November 2026 for this edition, opening on a Wednesday and closing on a Friday. It falls in autumn, after the summer circuit closes, when flights and rooms come back down in price. That slot matters for the budget — flights and rooms in Airlie Beach are priced for the festival weekend, not the week around it, so shifting your arrival by a day often saves more than any ticket tier does.

• Main Stage under the Big Tent
• Events in local cafes and restaurants
• All ages welcome
• Independent festival

Venue, camping & access

Venue type

Natural site

Best nearby base

Proserpine · 30 km · about 30 min

Camping

No on-site camping is listed by the organiser.

Getting to the gates

Visitors can reach the venue via public transport, driving, or taxi.

What the trip costs from Paris

Door to door from Paris, a trip to Airlie Beach Music Festival works out at roughly €2,188 per person on the cheapest combination we track — a higher-budget weekend, mostly because of the travel leg.

The ticket is only 4% of that: the rest is getting there and sleeping somewhere, which is exactly the part most ticket sites leave out.

Cheapest travel we price is air · 25h 15m each way, at €1,837 return.

Planning the trip, step by step

1. 1Book the ticket first: tiers at Airlie Beach Music Festival are sold in waves and the cheapest wave is gone long before the line-up is complete.
2. 2Then price the travel from Paris — Cinderella compares train, bus, car and flight for the same dates, and the cheapest option is not always the obvious one.
3. 3Reserve 4 nights rather than 3: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
4. 4If you fly into Whitsunday Coast Airport, check the transfer time to Airlie Beach before booking the earliest departure — the airport bus is usually the cheapest leg of the whole trip.
5. 5Follow Airlie Beach Music Festival on Cinderella to be emailed when a ticket price drops or a new tier opens.

Line-up, day by day

• Day 1 — Wednesday 4 November

  19-Twenty, Elestial, Little Quirks, Mental As Anything, Skinny Living, The Wayward Suns

• Day 2 — Thursday 5 November

  Adam Harvey, Harrison Cramond, Loonaloop, Monroe, The Mason Rack Band, The Whitlams

• Day 3 — Friday 6 November

  Carinda Christie Band, Jc And The Tree, Luke Ligtenberg, Salt & Steel, The Radiators, Xavier Rudd

Full line-up

Ordered as the poster reads it — headliners first, then most booked to least. Each name opens that artist's festival dates.

Past editions

Dates are the event's recurring calendar slot, so treat them as approximate — the organiser keeps the official archive.

• 2025

  4–6 Nov 2025 (approx.)

  Regulars: 19-Twenty, Adam Harvey, Carinda Christie Band

• 2024

  4–6 Nov 2024 (approx.)

  Regulars: Adam Harvey, Carinda Christie Band, Elestial

• 2023

  4–6 Nov 2023 (approx.)

  Regulars: Carinda Christie Band, Elestial, Harrison Cramond

Travel tips from Paris

• Fly into Whitsunday Coast Airport, the closest airport to the site.
• The site itself is Airlie Beach, in Airlie Beach.
• Visitors can reach the venue via public transport, driving, or taxi.
• Book a bed in Proserpine early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.

• air25h 15m · €1,837