Give Thanks Festival — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

25–27 Nov 2026 (3 days)

Location

Give Thanks Festival, San Jose, United States

Sound

Electronic

Tickets

€69 – €414 · 6 tiers tracked

The story

Give Thanks Festival is a 3-day electronic festival at Give Thanks Festival in San Jose, United States. The November 2026 edition runs 25–27 Nov 2026.

Everything happens at Give Thanks Festival, 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.

Give Thanks Festival keeps the same calendar slot each year: November 2026 for this edition, opening on a Wednesday and closing on a Friday. 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

Door to door from Paris, a trip to Give Thanks Festival works out at roughly €1,325 per person on the cheapest combination we track — a higher-budget weekend, mostly because of the travel leg.

The ticket is only 5% 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 57m each way, at €1,091 return.

Planning the trip, step by step

1. 1Book the ticket first: tiers at Give Thanks 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 4 nights rather than 3: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
4. 4Follow Give Thanks 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.

• 2025

  25–27 Nov 2025 (approx.)

• 2024

  25–27 Nov 2024 (approx.)

• 2023

  25–27 Nov 2023 (approx.)

Travel tips from Paris

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

• air15h 57m · €1,091