Soundstorm — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

1–3 Dec 2026 (3 days)

Location

Binban, AlUla, Saudi Arabia

Sound

Multi-Genre

Tickets

€183 · 1 tier tracked

The story

Soundstorm 2026 is a multi-genre music festival taking place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on December 3-4, 2026. It features over 260 hours of live music, massive stages, and impressive LED light displays. The festival will also have more than 100 food and beverage vendors.

Soundstorm is a 3-day multi-genre festival at Binban in AlUla, Saudi Arabia. The December 2026 edition runs 1–3 Dec 2026.

Everything happens at Binban, in AlUla. AlUla 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.

Soundstorm keeps the same calendar slot each year: December 2026 for this edition, opening on a Tuesday and closing on a Thursday. It is a winter date, so indoor stages and a warm place to sleep matter more than they would in July — and off-season travel is often cheaper. That slot matters for the budget — flights and rooms in AlUla 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.

• 260+ hours of live music
• Massive stages
• Impressive LED light displays
• More than 100 food and beverage vendors

What the trip costs from Paris

Door to door from Paris, a trip to Soundstorm works out at roughly €911 per person on the cheapest combination we track — a higher-budget weekend, mostly because of the travel leg.

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.

Cheapest travel we price is air · 11h 53m each way, at €764 return.

Planning the trip, step by step

1. 1Book the ticket first: tiers at Soundstorm 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 Soundstorm 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

  1–3 Dec 2025 (approx.)

• 2024

  1–3 Dec 2024 (approx.)

• 2023

  1–3 Dec 2023 (approx.)

Travel tips from Paris

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

• air11h 53m · €764