Polaris Festival — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

20–28 Nov 2026 (9 days)

Location

Val de Bagnes, Verbier, Switzerland

Sound

House · Techno

Tickets

€42 – €158 · 5 tiers tracked

Nearest airport

Geneva

Nearest station

Le Chable

Venue type

Urban venue

Best nearby base

Verbier · 10 km · about 10 min

On-site camping

Not listed

The story

The Polaris Festival is an electronic music festival held in Verbier, Switzerland, on two weekends: November 20-21 and November 27-28, 2026. It marks the beginning of the winter season in Val de Bagnes, combining club music with an alpine backdrop. Features include immersive art, light installations, and a cashless system for attendees over the age of 18.

Polaris Festival is a 9-day house, techno festival at Val de Bagnes in Verbier, Switzerland. The November 2026 edition runs 20–28 Nov 2026.

Expect stages split between House and Techno.

Everything happens at Val de Bagnes, in Verbier. Verbier · 10 km · about 10 min is the organiser's practical nearby base for accommodation and transfers to the festival site.

Polaris Festival keeps the same calendar slot each year: November 2026 for this edition, opening on a Friday and closing on a Saturday. It falls in autumn, after the summer circuit closes, when flights and rooms come back down in price. That slot matters for the budget — flights and rooms in Verbier 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.

• Two compact festival weekends
• Electronic music focusing on House and Techno
• Immersive stage designs and light art
• Alpine setting with views of the Walliser Alps
• Regular, VIP, and Stage Experience passes available
• Additional program with afterparties and day formats

Venue, camping & access

Venue type

Urban venue

Best nearby base

Verbier · 10 km · about 10 min

Camping

No on-site camping is listed by the organiser.

Getting to the gates

Access by train to Le Chable, then gondola or bus to Verbier.

What the trip costs from Paris

Door to door from Paris, a trip to Polaris Festival works out at roughly €6,080 per person on the cheapest combination we track — a higher-budget weekend, mostly because of the travel leg.

The ticket is only 1% 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 47m each way, at €62 return.

Planning the trip, step by step

1. 1Book the ticket first: tiers at Polaris 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 10 nights rather than 9: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
4. 4If you fly into Geneva, check the transfer time to Verbier before booking the earliest departure — the airport bus is usually the cheapest leg of the whole trip.
5. 5Follow Polaris 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.

• 2025

  20–28 Nov 2025 (approx.)

• 2024

  20–28 Nov 2024 (approx.)

• 2023

  20–28 Nov 2023 (approx.)

Travel tips from Paris

• Fly into Geneva, the closest airport to the site.
• Rail arrivals come through Le Chable; shuttles usually run from there.
• The site itself is Val de Bagnes, in Verbier.
• Access by train to Le Chable, then gondola or bus to Verbier.
• Book a bed in Verbier early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.

• bus8h 47m · €62
• air4h 10m · €144
• car7h 11m · €145
• train5h 12m · €160