Mayday Festival Dortmund — festival guide
Dortmund, Germany30 Apr – 1 May 2027 · 2 days193 days to go
At a glance
- Dates
- 30 Apr – 1 May 2027 (2 days)
- Location
- Dortmund, Germany
- Sound
- Electronic
- Tickets
- €79 · 1 tier tracked
The story
Mayday Festival Dortmund is a 2-day electronic festival at Dortmund, Germany. The April 2027 edition runs 30 Apr – 1 May 2027.
Dortmund 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.
Mayday Festival Dortmund keeps the same calendar slot each year: April 2027 for this edition, opening on a Friday and closing on a Saturday. It falls in spring, ahead of the summer festival rush, which usually keeps travel cheaper than the July and August dates. That slot matters for the budget — flights and rooms in Dortmund 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
€79
Return transport
€61
bus · 8h 38m each way
Place to stay
€130
Hostel / camping · 2 nights
Total door to door
€270
Door to door from Paris, a trip to Mayday Festival Dortmund works out at roughly €270 per person on the cheapest combination we track — one of the more affordable weekends in our index.
The ticket is only 29% 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 · 8h 38m each way, at €61 return.
See every ticket tier and travel option →Planning the trip, step by step
- 1Book the ticket first: tiers at Mayday Festival Dortmund 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 3 nights rather than 2: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
- 4Follow Mayday Festival Dortmund 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 Mayday Festival Dortmund 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.
2026
30 Apr – 1 May 2026 (approx.)
2025
30 Apr – 1 May 2025 (approx.)
2024
30 Apr – 1 May 2024 (approx.)
Travel tips from Paris
- Book a bed in Dortmund early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.
- bus8h 38m · €61
- car7h 5m · €142
- air4h 9m · €143
- train5h 7m · €158