Clockenflap — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

1–3 Dec 2026 (3 days)

Location

Central Harbourfront, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Sound

Multi-genre

Tickets

€250 – €500 · 2 tiers tracked

The story

Clockenflap is a 3-day multi-genre festival at Central Harbourfront in Hong Kong, Hong Kong. The December 2026 edition runs 1–3 Dec 2026.

Everything happens at Central Harbourfront, in Hong Kong. Hong Kong 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.

Clockenflap keeps the same calendar slot each year: December 2026 for this edition, opening on a Tuesday and closing on a Thursday. It is a winter date, so indoor stages and a warm place to sleep matter more than they would in July — and off-season travel is often cheaper. That slot matters for the budget — flights and rooms in Hong Kong 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.

What the trip costs from Paris

Door to door from Paris, a trip to Clockenflap works out at roughly €1,535 per person on the cheapest combination we track — a higher-budget weekend, mostly because of the travel leg.

The ticket is only 16% 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 · 16h 53m each way, at €1,165 return.

Planning the trip, step by step

1. 1Book the ticket first: tiers at Clockenflap 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. 4Follow Clockenflap on Cinderella to be emailed when a ticket price drops or a new tier opens.

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

  1–3 Dec 2025 (approx.)

• 2024

  1–3 Dec 2024 (approx.)

• 2023

  1–3 Dec 2023 (approx.)

Travel tips from Paris

• The site itself is Central Harbourfront, in Hong Kong.
• Book a bed in Hong Kong early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.

• air16h 53m · €1,165