Sonar Barcelona — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

15–17 Jun 2027 (3 days)

Location

Fira Montjuïc, Barcelona, Spain

Sound

Alternative · Electronic · House · Indie Rock

Tickets

€49 – €180 · 6 tiers tracked

The story

Sónar Barcelona is a prominent electronic music festival that has been held annually since 1994 in Barcelona, Spain. The festival showcases a blend of music performances and a tech conference, known as Sónar+D, aiming to reflect the pulse of the current electronic landscape. With a unique format split between daytime and nighttime events, it features a massive venue for its night performances, making it Spain's largest electronic festival.

Sonar Barcelona is a 3-day alternative, electronic, house, indie rock festival at Fira Montjuïc in Barcelona, Spain. The June 2027 edition runs 15–17 Jun 2027.

Expect stages split between Alternative, Electronic, House and Indie Rock.

Everything happens at Fira Montjuïc, in Barcelona. Barcelona 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.

Sonar Barcelona keeps the same calendar slot each year: June 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 Barcelona 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.

• Founded in 1994
• Features Sónar+D tech conference
• Held at Fira Montjuïc
• 25 editions in Barcelona
• Spain's largest electronic festival

What the trip costs from Paris

Door to door from Paris, a trip to Sonar Barcelona works out at roughly €399 per person on the cheapest combination we track — one of the more affordable weekends in our index.

The ticket is only 12% 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 · 14h 56m each way, at €101 return.

Planning the trip, step by step

1. 1Book the ticket first: tiers at Sonar Barcelona 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 Sonar Barcelona 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

  15–17 Jun 2026 (approx.)

• 2025

  15–17 Jun 2025 (approx.)

• 2024

  15–17 Jun 2024 (approx.)

Travel tips from Paris

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

• bus14h 56m · €101
• air4h 39m · €183
• train8h 15m · €251
• car12h 13m · €252