Dreamstate SoCal — festival guide
Queen Mary Waterfront, Southern California, United States20–21 Nov 2026 · 2 days32 days to go
At a glance
- Dates
- 20–21 Nov 2026 (2 days)
- Location
- Queen Mary Waterfront, Southern California, United States
- Sound
- Electronic · Dance
- Tickets
- €100 – €275 · 6 tiers tracked
- Venue type
- Festival site
- On-site camping
- Not listed
The story
Dreamstate SoCal is an electronic music festival held on November 20-21, 2026, at the Queen Mary Waterfront in Southern California. This festival is exclusively for ages 18 and older, with certain areas for attendees 21 and older. It features general admission and VIP experience passes for both days, as well as single-day options and afterparties. The festival takes place over two days with events starting at 4:00 PM each day.
Dreamstate SoCal is a 2-day electronic, dance festival at Queen Mary Waterfront in Southern California, United States. The November 2026 edition runs 20–21 Nov 2026.
Expect stages split between Electronic and Dance.
Everything happens at Queen Mary Waterfront, in Southern California. Southern California 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.
Dreamstate SoCal keeps the same calendar slot each year: November 2026 for this edition, opening on a Friday and closing on a Saturday. 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 Southern California 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.
- Held at Queen Mary Waterfront
- Age restrictions: 18+ for GA, 21+ for VIP
- Dates: November 20-21, 2026
- Features both GA and VIP passes for each day
- Shows start at 4:00 PM on both days
Venue, camping & access
- Venue type
- Festival site
- Camping
- No on-site camping is listed by the organiser.
What the trip costs from Paris
Ticket from
€100
Return transport
€1,078
air · 15h 48m each way
Place to stay
€330
Hostel / camping · 2 nights
Total door to door
€1,508
Door to door from Paris, a trip to Dreamstate SoCal works out at roughly €1,508 per person on the cheapest combination we track — a higher-budget weekend, mostly because of the travel leg.
The ticket is only 7% 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 · 15h 48m each way, at €1,078 return.
See every ticket tier and travel option →Planning the trip, step by step
- 1Book the ticket first: tiers at Dreamstate SoCal 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 Dreamstate SoCal 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 Dreamstate SoCal 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
20–21 Nov 2025 (approx.)
2024
20–21 Nov 2024 (approx.)
2023
20–21 Nov 2023 (approx.)
Travel tips from Paris
- The site itself is Queen Mary Waterfront, in Southern California.
- Book a bed in Southern California early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.
- air15h 48m · €1,078