Montreux Jazz Festival — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

1–16 Jul 2027 (16 days)

Location

Montreux, Montreux, Switzerland

Sound

Electronic · Jazz

Tickets

€473 – €1,680 · 6 tiers tracked

The story

Montreux Jazz Festival is a 16-day electronic, jazz festival at Montreux in Montreux, Switzerland. The July 2027 edition runs 1–16 Jul 2027.

Expect stages split between Electronic and Jazz.

Everything happens at Montreux, in Montreux. Montreux 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.

Montreux Jazz Festival keeps the same calendar slot each year: July 2027 for this edition, opening on a Thursday and closing on a Friday. 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 Montreux 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 Montreux Jazz Festival works out at roughly €1,511 per person on the cheapest combination we track — a higher-budget weekend, mostly because of the travel leg.

The ticket is only 31% 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 3m each way, at €58 return.

Planning the trip, step by step

1. 1Book the ticket first: tiers at Montreux Jazz Festival 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 17 nights rather than 16: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
4. 4Follow Montreux Jazz Festival 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

  1–16 Jul 2026 (approx.)

• 2025

  1–16 Jul 2025 (approx.)

• 2024

  1–16 Jul 2024 (approx.)

Travel tips from Paris

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

• bus8h 3m · €58
• car6h 36m · €132
• air4h 6m · €139
• train4h 50m · €149