CTM Festival — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

29 Jan – 5 Feb 2027 (8 days)

Location

Berlin, Germany

Sound

Electronic

Tickets

€20 – €150 · 3 tiers tracked

The story

CTM Festival is a 8-day electronic festival at Berlin, Germany. The January 2027 edition runs 29 Jan – 5 Feb 2027.

Berlin 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.

CTM Festival keeps the same calendar slot each year: January 2027 for this edition, opening on a Friday and closing on a Friday. 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 Berlin 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 CTM Festival works out at roughly €574 per person on the cheapest combination we track — a mid-priced weekend by the standards of our index.

The ticket is only 3% 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 bus · 15h 45m each way, at €106 return.

Planning the trip, step by step

1. 1Book the ticket first: tiers at CTM 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 9 nights rather than 8: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
4. 4Follow CTM Festival 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.

• 2026

  29 Jan – 5 Feb 2026 (approx.)

• 2025

  29 Jan – 5 Feb 2025 (approx.)

• 2024

  29 Jan – 5 Feb 2024 (approx.)

Travel tips from Paris

• Book a bed in Berlin early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.

• bus15h 45m · €106
• air4h 43m · €188
• train8h 39m · €263
• car12h 54m · €267