NOS Alive — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

6–8 Jul 2027 (3 days)

Location

Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal

Sound

Electronic

Tickets

€80 · 1 tier tracked

The story

NOS Alive is a 3-day electronic festival at Unknown in Lisbon, Portugal. The July 2027 edition runs 6–8 Jul 2027.

Everything happens at Unknown, in Lisbon. Lisbon 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.

NOS Alive keeps the same calendar slot each year: July 2027 for this edition, opening on a Tuesday and closing on a Thursday. 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 Lisbon 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 NOS Alive works out at roughly €753 per person on the cheapest combination we track — a mid-priced weekend by the standards of our index.

The ticket is only 11% 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 air · 5h 31m each way, at €253 return.

Planning the trip, step by step

1. 1Book the ticket first: tiers at NOS Alive 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 4 nights rather than 3: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
4. 4Follow NOS Alive 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

  6–8 Jul 2026 (approx.)

• 2025

  6–8 Jul 2025 (approx.)

• 2024

  6–8 Jul 2024 (approx.)

Travel tips from Paris

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

• air5h 31m · €253