Shapes Festival — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

15–21 Mar 2027 (7 days)

Location

Leysin, Leysin, Switzerland

Sound

House · Disco · Techno

Crowd

around 1,000 people

Tickets

€26 – €104 · 5 tiers tracked

Nearest airport

Genève

Nearest station

Aigle

Venue type

Natural site

Best nearby base

Leysin · 0 km · about 0 min

On-site camping

Not listed

Line-up announced

2 artists so far

The story

Shapes Festival Leysin is a winter event held in the Vaud Alps of Switzerland, specifically in Leysin, from March 15 to March 21, 2027. The festival features music styles like house, disco, and techno along with outdoor activities on the slopes. It has a capacity of around 1000 guests, with multiple venues including Les Fers on the slopes and Underbelly at night.

Shapes Festival is a 7-day house, disco, techno festival at Leysin in Leysin, Switzerland. The March 2027 edition runs 15–21 Mar 2027. It draws around 1,000 people.

Announced so far: Antal and Optimo. Expect stages split between House, Disco and Techno. The line-up is spread across the 7 festival days, so a full-weekend ticket is the only way to catch every name.

At around 1,000 attendees it stays on the intimate side, which usually means shorter bar queues and a crowd that is there for the music rather than the spectacle. Everything happens at Leysin, in Leysin. Leysin · 0 km · about 0 min is the organiser's practical nearby base for accommodation and transfers to the festival site.

Shapes Festival keeps the same calendar slot each year: March 2027 for this edition, opening on a Monday and closing on a Sunday. 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 Leysin 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.

• Capacity of around 1000 guests
• Les Fers on the slope, Bel Air Apres, Underbelly at night, Kuklos Sunset at around 2200 m
• Curated events including Optimo on March 18, 2027, and Rush Hour on March 19, 2027
• Additional line-up for 2027 will be announced in September 2026
• The 2026 edition featured artists like Sofia Kourtesis and Move D
• Skipass packages available separately

Venue, camping & access

Venue type

Natural site

Best nearby base

Leysin · 0 km · about 0 min

Camping

No on-site camping is listed by the organiser.

Getting to the gates

Fly to Geneva, then take a train to Aigle followed by a cogwheel train to Leysin.

What the trip costs from Paris

Door to door from Paris, a trip to Shapes Festival works out at roughly €498 per person on the cheapest combination we track — a mid-priced weekend by the standards of our index.

The ticket is only 5% 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 16m each way, at €59 return.

Planning the trip, step by step

1. 1Book the ticket first: tiers at Shapes 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 8 nights rather than 7: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
4. 4If you fly into Genève, check the transfer time to Leysin before booking the earliest departure — the airport bus is usually the cheapest leg of the whole trip.
5. 5Follow Shapes Festival on Cinderella to be emailed when a ticket price drops or a new tier opens.

Line-up, day by day

• Day 1 — Monday 15 March

  Antal

• Day 2 — Tuesday 16 March

  Optimo

• Day 3 — Wednesday 17 March

  Line-up to be announced

• Day 4 — Thursday 18 March

  Line-up to be announced

• Day 5 — Friday 19 March

  Line-up to be announced

• Day 6 — Saturday 20 March

  Line-up to be announced

• Day 7 — Sunday 21 March

  Line-up to be announced

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

  15–21 Mar 2026 (approx.)

  Regulars: Antal, Optimo

• 2025

  15–21 Mar 2025 (approx.)

  Regulars: Optimo

• 2024

  15–21 Mar 2024 (approx.)

Travel tips from Paris

• Fly into Genève, the closest airport to the site.
• Rail arrivals come through Aigle; shuttles usually run from there.
• The site itself is Leysin, in Leysin.
• Fly to Geneva, then take a train to Aigle followed by a cogwheel train to Leysin.
• Book a bed in Leysin early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.

• bus8h 16m · €59
• car6h 46m · €136
• air4h 7m · €140
• train4h 56m · €152