Les Trans Musicales — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

2–6 Dec 2026 (5 days)

Location

Rennes, France

Sound

Electronic · Rock

Tickets

€30 – €100 · 3 tiers tracked

The story

Les Trans Musicales is a 5-day electronic, rock festival at Rennes, France. The December 2026 edition runs 2–6 Dec 2026.

Expect stages split between Electronic and Rock.

Rennes 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.

Les Trans Musicales keeps the same calendar slot each year: December 2026 for this edition, opening on a Wednesday and closing on a Sunday. It is a winter date, so indoor stages and a warm place to sleep matter more than they would in July — and off-season travel is often cheaper. That slot matters for the budget — flights and rooms in Rennes 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 Les Trans Musicales works out at roughly €334 per person on the cheapest combination we track — one of the more affordable weekends in our index.

The ticket is only 9% 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 · 5h 51m each way, at €44 return.

Planning the trip, step by step

1. 1Book the ticket first: tiers at Les Trans Musicales 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 6 nights rather than 5: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
4. 4Follow Les Trans Musicales 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

  2–6 Dec 2025 (approx.)

• 2024

  2–6 Dec 2024 (approx.)

• 2023

  2–6 Dec 2023 (approx.)

Travel tips from Paris

• Book a bed in Rennes early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.

• bus5h 51m · €44
• car4h 48m · €94
• train3h 44m · €116