Nuits Sonores — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

24–28 May 2027 (5 days)

Location

Lyon, France

Sound

Electronic · House · Techno

Tickets

€50 · 1 tier tracked

The story

Nuits Sonores is a 5-day electronic, house, techno festival at Lyon, France. The May 2027 edition runs 24–28 May 2027.

Expect stages split between Electronic, House and Techno.

Lyon 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.

Nuits Sonores keeps the same calendar slot each year: May 2027 for this edition, opening on a Monday and closing on a Friday. 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 Lyon 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 Nuits Sonores works out at roughly €498 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 · 7h 19m each way, at €53 return.

Planning the trip, step by step

1. 1Book the ticket first: tiers at Nuits Sonores 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 Nuits Sonores 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

  24–28 May 2026 (approx.)

• 2025

  24–28 May 2025 (approx.)

• 2024

  24–28 May 2024 (approx.)

Travel tips from Paris

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

• bus7h 19m · €53
• car6h · €119
• air4h 3m · €134
• train4h 28m · €138