Clockenflap — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

10–12 Nov 2026 (3 days)

Location

Central Harbourfront, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Sound

multi-genre

Crowd

around 60,000 people

Tickets

€3,300 – €6,500 · 2 tiers tracked

Nearest airport

Hong Kong International Airport

Venue type

Urban venue

Best nearby base

Hong Kong · 0 km · about 0 min

On-site camping

Not listed

Line-up announced

19 artists so far

The story

Clockenflap is an annual Music & Arts Festival that takes place over three days from December 4-6, 2026, in Hong Kong at the Central Harbourfront. The festival features artists from around the world and attracts over 60,000 attendees, showcasing a diverse range of performances. It has a notable emphasis on gender diversity and inclusivity, participating in the Keychange Gender Diversity Pledge.

Clockenflap is a 3-day multi-genre festival at Central Harbourfront in Hong Kong, Hong Kong. The November 2026 edition runs 10–12 Nov 2026. It draws around 60,000 people.

Announced so far: Hayley Williams, Queens of the Stone Age, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Kim Gordon, Brekky Boy, Chanpan, Daniela Andrade and Digable Planets and 11 more. The line-up is spread across the 3 festival days, so a full-weekend ticket is the only way to catch every name.

At around 60,000 attendees it sits in the mid-to-large bracket — big stages and big production, but still walkable end to end. Everything happens at Central Harbourfront, in Hong Kong. Hong Kong · 0 km · about 0 min is the organiser's practical nearby base for accommodation and transfers to the festival site.

Clockenflap keeps the same calendar slot each year: November 2026 for this edition, opening on a Tuesday and closing on a Thursday. 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 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.

• Venue: Central Harbourfront
• All Ages
• 60,000+ attendees
• 3-Day format
• Participating in Keychange Gender Diversity Pledge

Venue, camping & access

Venue type

Urban venue

Best nearby base

Hong Kong · 0 km · about 0 min

Camping

No on-site camping is listed by the organiser.

Getting to the gates

Public transport and taxis available to the venue.

What the trip costs from Paris

Door to door from Paris, a trip to Clockenflap works out at roughly €4,654 per person on the cheapest combination we track — a higher-budget weekend, mostly because of the travel leg.

The ticket is only 71% 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. 4If you fly into Hong Kong International Airport, check the transfer time to Hong Kong before booking the earliest departure — the airport bus is usually the cheapest leg of the whole trip.
5. 5Follow Clockenflap on Cinderella to be emailed when a ticket price drops or a new tier opens.

Line-up, day by day

• Day 1 — Tuesday 10 November

  Hayley Williams, Kim Gordon, Daniela Andrade, Fazerdaze, keshi, pami, Slowdive

• Day 2 — Wednesday 11 November

  Queens of the Stone Age, Brekky Boy, Digable Planets, HE.R Soundsystem, Malcolm Todd, SIX60

• Day 3 — Thursday 12 November

  The Jesus and Mary Chain, Chanpan, DOMi and JD BECK, Hyukoh, Marcel Dettmann, Sleaford Mods

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

  10–12 Nov 2025 (approx.)

  Regulars: Hayley Williams, Queens of the Stone Age, The Jesus and Mary Chain

• 2024

  10–12 Nov 2024 (approx.)

  Regulars: Queens of the Stone Age, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Kim Gordon

• 2023

  10–12 Nov 2023 (approx.)

  Regulars: The Jesus and Mary Chain, Kim Gordon, Brekky Boy

Travel tips from Paris

• Fly into Hong Kong International Airport, the closest airport to the site.
• The site itself is Central Harbourfront, in Hong Kong.
• Public transport and taxis available to the venue.
• Book a bed in Hong Kong early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.

• air16h 53m · €1,165