Houghton — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

1–9 Aug 2027 (9 days)

Location

Houghton Hall, Houghton Hall, United Kingdom

Sound

House · techno · leftfield

Tickets

€12 – €26 · 2 tiers tracked

The story

Houghton is a 9-day house, techno, leftfield festival at Houghton Hall in Houghton Hall, United Kingdom. The August 2027 edition runs 1–9 Aug 2027.

Expect stages split between House, techno and leftfield.

Everything happens at Houghton Hall, in Houghton Hall. Houghton Hall 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.

Houghton keeps the same calendar slot each year: August 2027 for this edition, opening on a Sunday and closing on a Monday. It is a high-summer date, which is peak season for both travel and accommodation across the region. That slot matters for the budget — flights and rooms in Houghton Hall 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 Houghton works out at roughly €1,003 per person on the cheapest combination we track — a higher-budget weekend, mostly because of the travel leg.

The ticket is only 1% 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 · 13h 23m each way, at €91 return.

Planning the trip, step by step

1. 1Book the ticket first: tiers at Houghton 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 10 nights rather than 9: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
4. 4Follow Houghton 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.

• 2026

  1–9 Aug 2026 (approx.)

• 2025

  1–9 Aug 2025 (approx.)

• 2024

  1–9 Aug 2024 (approx.)

Travel tips from Paris

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

• bus13h 23m · €91
• air4h 32m · €173
• car10h 58m · €226
• train7h 29m · €228