Portola Festival — festival guide
Pier 80, San Francisco, United States30 Sept – 2 Oct 2026 · 3 days
This edition has already taken place. The guide stays online as a record of what Portola Festival programmed and where it was held — dates for the next edition appear here as soon as the organiser confirms them.
At a glance
- Dates
- 30 Sept – 2 Oct 2026 (3 days)
- Location
- Pier 80, San Francisco, United States
- Sound
- Electronic
The story
Portola Festival is a 3-day electronic festival at Pier 80 in San Francisco, United States. The September 2026 edition runs 30 Sept – 2 Oct 2026.
Everything happens at Pier 80, in San Francisco. San Francisco 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.
Portola Festival keeps the same calendar slot each year: September 2026 for this edition, opening on a Wednesday and closing on a Friday. 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 San Francisco 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
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Return transport
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Place to stay
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Total door to door
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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.
See every ticket tier and travel option →Planning the trip, step by step
- 1Book the ticket first: tiers at Portola Festival 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 4 nights rather than 3: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
- 4Follow Portola 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.
The organiser hasn't published the line-up for Portola Festival 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.
2025
30 Sept – 2 Oct 2025 (approx.)
2024
30 Sept – 2 Oct 2024 (approx.)
2023
30 Sept – 2 Oct 2023 (approx.)
Travel tips from Paris
- The site itself is Pier 80, in San Francisco.
- Book a bed in San Francisco early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.