Soundstorm — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

1–3 Dec 2026 (3 days)

Location

AlUla Arts Festival Grounds, AlUla, Saudi Arabia

Sound

Electronic

Tickets

€138 · 1 tier tracked

The story

Soundstorm is a 3-day electronic festival at AlUla Arts Festival Grounds in AlUla, Saudi Arabia. The December 2026 edition runs 1–3 Dec 2026.

Everything happens at AlUla Arts Festival Grounds, 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.

What the trip costs from Paris

Door to door from Paris, a trip to Soundstorm works out at roughly €983 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 AlUla Arts Festival Grounds, in AlUla.
• Book a bed in AlUla early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.

• air11h 53m · €764