HowTheLightGetsIn — festival guide
London, United Kingdom20–23 Oct 2026 · 4 days1 days to go
At a glance
- Dates
- 20–23 Oct 2026 (4 days)
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Sound
- Electronic
- Tickets
- €176 · 1 tier tracked
The story
HowTheLightGetsIn is a 4-day electronic festival at London, United Kingdom. The October 2026 edition runs 20–23 Oct 2026.
London 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.
HowTheLightGetsIn keeps the same calendar slot each year: October 2026 for this edition, opening on a Tuesday 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 London 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
Ticket from
not on sale yet
Return transport
€48
bus · 6h 28m each way
Place to stay
€492
Hostel / camping · 4 nights
Total door to door
€540
Door to door from Paris, a trip to HowTheLightGetsIn works out at roughly €540 per person on the cheapest combination we track — a mid-priced weekend by the standards of our index.
No ticket price is published for this edition yet, so the total below covers travel and a bed only. It updates automatically as soon as the organiser opens sales.
Cheapest travel we price is bus · 6h 28m each way, at €48 return.
See every ticket tier and travel option →Planning the trip, step by step
- 1Book the ticket first: tiers at HowTheLightGetsIn 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 5 nights rather than 4: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
- 4Follow HowTheLightGetsIn 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 HowTheLightGetsIn 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
20–23 Oct 2025 (approx.)
2024
20–23 Oct 2024 (approx.)
2023
20–23 Oct 2023 (approx.)
Travel tips from Paris
- Book a bed in London early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.
- bus6h 28m · €48
- car5h 18m · €104
- train4h 3m · €125