Day Trip NorCal — festival guide
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 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, United States
- Sound
- Electronic
The story
Day Trip NorCal is a 2-day electronic festival at San Jose, United States. The October 2026 edition runs 17–18 Oct 2026.
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 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 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 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 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
- Book a bed in San Jose early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.