Escape Halloween — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

30–31 Oct 2026 (2 days)

Location

San Bernardino, San Bernardino, United States

Sound

Electronic · Dance

Tickets

€100 – €275 · 6 tiers tracked

Line-up announced

14 artists so far

The story

Escape Halloween is an annual festival held in San Bernardino, United States. The festival presents a full Halloween experience with over 85 artists across 6 stages, offering a unique atmosphere that blends music and Halloween themes. It prides itself on being the largest music festival focused on Halloween, creating a vibrant and immersive environment for attendees.

Escape Halloween is a 2-day electronic, dance festival at San Bernardino in San Bernardino, United States. The October 2026 edition runs 30–31 Oct 2026.

Announced so far: Cut Snake, Kayoh, ATICAS, Born Dirty & Jaw & Cassius, Chris Lake & Chris Lorenzo, Craig Williams, Dead Critic & Drop Dead and Dombresky & Tony Romera and 6 more. Expect stages split between Electronic and Dance. The line-up is spread across the 2 festival days, so a full-weekend ticket is the only way to catch every name.

Everything happens at San Bernardino, in San Bernardino. San Bernardino 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.

Escape Halloween keeps the same calendar slot each year: October 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 San Bernardino 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.

• Over 85 artists
• 6 stages
• Largest music festival on Halloween
• Unique Halloween-themed experience

What the trip costs from Paris

Door to door from Paris, a trip to Escape Halloween works out at roughly €1,496 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 · 16h 3m each way, at €1,098 return.

Planning the trip, step by step

1. 1Book the ticket first: tiers at Escape Halloween 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 3 nights rather than 2: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
4. 4Follow Escape Halloween on Cinderella to be emailed when a ticket price drops or a new tier opens.

Line-up, day by day

• Day 1 — Friday 30 October

  Cut Snake, ATICAS, Chris Lake & Chris Lorenzo, Dead Critic & Drop Dead, GRiZWicked (Megalodon Remix), LA Riots, Sinden & Marc Spence

• Day 2 — Saturday 31 October

  Kayoh, Born Dirty & Jaw & Cassius, Craig Williams, Dombresky & Tony Romera, Jayceeoh & Clips x Ahoy, Rell the Soundbender x Rawtek, SLANDER & Basstrick

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

  30–31 Oct 2025 (approx.)

  Regulars: Cut Snake, Kayoh, ATICAS

• 2024

  30–31 Oct 2024 (approx.)

  Regulars: Kayoh, ATICAS, Born Dirty & Jaw & Cassius

• 2023

  30–31 Oct 2023 (approx.)

  Regulars: ATICAS, Born Dirty & Jaw & Cassius, Chris Lake & Chris Lorenzo

Travel tips from Paris

• The site itself is San Bernardino, in San Bernardino.
• Book a bed in San Bernardino early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.

• air16h 3m · €1,098