Awakenings Festival — festival guide
Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands4–5 Jul 2027 · 2 days257 days to go
This edition has already taken place. The guide stays online as a record of what Awakenings Festival programmed and where it was held — dates for the next edition appear here as soon as the organiser confirms them.
At a glance
- Dates
- 4–5 Jul 2027 (2 days)
- Location
- Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands
- Sound
- Techno
- Crowd
- around 90,000 people
- Nearest airport
- EIN
- Nearest station
- Tilburg
- Line-up announced
- 4 artists so far
The story
Raw, relentless and beautifully engineered sound. Awakenings is the yardstick every other techno festival is measured against, with hangar-sized areas and a crowd that is there strictly for the kick drum.
Awakenings Festival is a 2-day techno festival at Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands. The July 2027 edition runs 4–5 Jul 2027. It draws around 90,000 people.
Announced so far: Adam Beyer, Amelie Lens, Charlotte de Witte and Nina Kraviz. The line-up is spread across the 2 festival days, so a full-weekend ticket is the only way to catch every name.
At around 90,000 attendees it sits in the mid-to-large bracket — big stages and big production, but still walkable end to end. Hilvarenbeek is the base for the trip: it is where the affordable beds, the late trains and the after-parties are, and where prices climb fastest as the dates approach.
Awakenings Festival keeps the same calendar slot each year: July 2027 for this edition, opening on a Sunday and closing on a Monday. It is a high-summer date, which is peak season for both travel and accommodation across the region. That slot matters for the budget — flights and rooms in Hilvarenbeek 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.
- Best sound system in techno
- Area V after dark
- No-nonsense lineup
What the trip costs from Paris
Ticket from
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Return transport
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Place to stay
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Total door to door
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No ticket price is published for this edition yet, so the total below covers travel and a bed only. It updates automatically as soon as the organiser opens sales.
See every ticket tier and travel option →Planning the trip, step by step
- 1Book the ticket first: tiers at Awakenings Festival are sold in waves and the cheapest wave is gone long before the line-up is complete.
- 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.
- 3Reserve 3 nights rather than 2: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
- 4If you fly into EIN, check the transfer time to Hilvarenbeek before booking the earliest departure — the airport bus is usually the cheapest leg of the whole trip.
- 5Follow Awakenings Festival on Cinderella to be emailed when a ticket price drops or a new tier opens.
Line-up, day by day
Day 1 — Sunday 4 July
Adam Beyer, Charlotte de Witte
Day 2 — Monday 5 July
Amelie Lens, Nina Kraviz
Full line-up
Ordered as the poster reads it — headliners first, then most booked to least. Each name opens that artist's festival dates.
The organiser hasn't published the line-up for Awakenings Festival yet. It appears here — with a page for every artist — as soon as names are confirmed.
Past editions
Dates are the event's recurring calendar slot, so treat them as approximate — the organiser keeps the official archive.
2026
4–5 Jul 2026 (approx.)
Regulars: Adam Beyer, Amelie Lens, Charlotte de Witte
2025
4–5 Jul 2025 (approx.)
Regulars: Amelie Lens, Charlotte de Witte, Nina Kraviz
2024
4–5 Jul 2024 (approx.)
Regulars: Charlotte de Witte, Nina Kraviz
Travel tips from Paris
- Fly into EIN, the closest airport to the site.
- Rail arrivals come through Tilburg; shuttles usually run from there.
- Book a bed in Hilvarenbeek early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.