Sonora Bordeaux — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

16–16 Oct 2026 (1 day)

Location

Sonora Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

Sound

Techno · Hard Techno · Schranz

Crowd

around 20,000 people

Nearest airport

Bordeaux-Mérignac Airport

Nearest station

Bordeaux Saint-Jean

Venue type

Urban venue

Best nearby base

Bordeaux · 0 km · about 5 min

On-site camping

Not listed

The story

Sonora Bordeaux is a two-day electronic music festival taking place on October 16 and 17, 2026, at Parc des Expositions de Bordeaux in France. This event celebrates its two-year anniversary with an ambitious project featuring two large warehouses designed for a fully immersive experience, including substantial sound systems and LED screens. The festival showcases a lineup of notable names from the techno, hard techno, and schranz genres.

Sonora Bordeaux is a techno, hard techno, schranz festival at Sonora Bordeaux in Bordeaux, France. The October 2026 edition runs 16–16 Oct 2026. It draws around 20,000 people.

Expect stages split between Techno, Hard Techno and Schranz.

At around 20,000 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 Sonora Bordeaux, in Bordeaux. Bordeaux · 0 km · about 5 min is the organiser's practical nearby base for accommodation and transfers to the festival site.

Sonora Bordeaux keeps the same calendar slot each year: October 2026 for this edition, opening on a Friday 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 Bordeaux 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 nights of music
• Two large hangars (12,000 m² and 8,000 m²)
• More than 400 m² of LED screens
• A redesigned exclusive stage setup
• Ultra-powerful sound system
• Spectacular light shows

Venue, camping & access

Venue type

Urban venue

Best nearby base

Bordeaux · 0 km · about 5 min

Camping

No on-site camping is listed by the organiser.

Getting to the gates

Official shuttle service available to the venue.

What the trip costs from Paris

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.

Planning the trip, step by step

1. 1Book the ticket first: tiers at Sonora Bordeaux 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 2 nights rather than 1: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
4. 4If you fly into Bordeaux-Mérignac Airport, check the transfer time to Bordeaux before booking the earliest departure — the airport bus is usually the cheapest leg of the whole trip.
5. 5Follow Sonora Bordeaux 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

  16–16 Oct 2025 (approx.)

• 2024

  16–16 Oct 2024 (approx.)

• 2023

  16–16 Oct 2023 (approx.)

Travel tips from Paris

• Fly into Bordeaux-Mérignac Airport, the closest airport to the site.
• Rail arrivals come through Bordeaux Saint-Jean; shuttles usually run from there.
• The site itself is Sonora Bordeaux, in Bordeaux.
• Official shuttle service available to the venue.
• Book a bed in Bordeaux early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.