Halloween Takeover — festival guide
Madrid Arena, Madrid, Spain31–31 Oct 2026 · 1 day
At a glance
- Dates
- 31–31 Oct 2026 (1 day)
- Location
- Madrid Arena, Madrid, Spain
- Sound
- house · techno
- Crowd
- around 30,000 people
- Tickets
- €33 – €154 · 3 tiers tracked
- Nearest airport
- Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport
- Nearest station
- Villaverde Alto
- Venue type
- Purpose-built festival ground
- Best nearby base
- Madrid · 0 km · about 20 min
- On-site camping
- Not listed
The story
Halloween Takeover is a festival taking place in Madrid, Spain, on Saturday, October 31, 2026. The event is set to occur at the Recinto Iberdrola Music from 2 PM to 2 AM, anticipated to draw over 30,000 attendees across three stages. This festival, produced by notable names elrow, Brunch Electronik, and Industry City, follows a successful edition in Barcelona in 2025 and features a mix of house and techno music.
Halloween Takeover is a house, techno festival at Madrid Arena in Madrid, Spain. The October 2026 edition runs 31–31 Oct 2026. It draws around 30,000 people.
Expect stages split between house and techno.
At around 30,000 attendees it sits in the mid-to-large bracket — big stages and big production, but still walkable end to end. Everything happens at Madrid Arena, in Madrid. Madrid · 0 km · about 20 min is the organiser's practical nearby base for accommodation and transfers to the festival site.
Halloween Takeover keeps the same calendar slot each year: October 2026 for this edition, opening on a Saturday 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 Madrid 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.
- Scheduled for 12 hours from 2 PM to 2 AM
- More than 30,000 expected attendees
- Three stages for performances
- Produced by elrow, Brunch Electronik, and Industry City
Venue, camping & access
- Venue type
- Purpose-built festival ground
- Best nearby base
- Madrid · 0 km · about 20 min
- Camping
- No on-site camping is listed by the organiser.
- Getting to the gates
- Visitors can reach the venue via public transport, taxis or shuttles.
What the trip costs from Paris
Ticket from
€33
Return transport
€125
bus · 18h 47m each way
Place to stay
€159
Hostel / camping · 1 night
Total door to door
€317
Door to door from Paris, a trip to Halloween Takeover works out at roughly €317 per person on the cheapest combination we track — one of the more affordable weekends in our index.
The ticket is only 10% 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 bus · 18h 47m each way, at €125 return.
See every ticket tier and travel option →Planning the trip, step by step
- 1Book the ticket first: tiers at Halloween Takeover 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 2 nights rather than 1: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
- 4If you fly into Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport, check the transfer time to Madrid before booking the earliest departure — the airport bus is usually the cheapest leg of the whole trip.
- 5Follow Halloween Takeover 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 Halloween Takeover 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
31–31 Oct 2025 (approx.)
2024
31–31 Oct 2024 (approx.)
2023
31–31 Oct 2023 (approx.)
Travel tips from Paris
- Fly into Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport, the closest airport to the site.
- Rail arrivals come through Villaverde Alto; shuttles usually run from there.
- The site itself is Madrid Arena, in Madrid.
- Visitors can reach the venue via public transport, taxis or shuttles.
- Book a bed in Madrid early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.
- bus18h 47m · €125
- air4h 58m · €208
- train10h 10m · €309
- car15h 22m · €320