Day Trip Festival NorCal — festival guide
San Jose, San Jose, United States17–18 Oct 2026 · 2 days
This edition has already taken place. The guide stays online as a record of what Day Trip Festival NorCal programmed and where it was held — dates for the next edition appear here as soon as the organiser confirms them.
At a glance
- Dates
- 17–18 Oct 2026 (2 days)
- Location
- San Jose, San Jose, United States
- Sound
- Electronic
The story
Day Trip Festival NorCal is a 2-day electronic festival at San Jose in San Jose, United States. The October 2026 edition runs 17–18 Oct 2026.
Everything happens at San Jose, in San Jose. San Jose 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.
Day Trip Festival NorCal keeps the same calendar slot each year: October 2026 for this edition, opening on a Saturday and closing on a Sunday. 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 San Jose 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
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 Day Trip Festival NorCal 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.
- 4Follow Day Trip Festival NorCal 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.
The organiser hasn't published the line-up for Day Trip Festival NorCal 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.
2025
17–18 Oct 2025 (approx.)
2024
17–18 Oct 2024 (approx.)
2023
17–18 Oct 2023 (approx.)
Travel tips from Paris
- The site itself is San Jose, in San Jose.
- Book a bed in San Jose early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.