Sunburn Festival — festival guide
Sao Domingos, Vagator Beach, Goa, India28–31 Dec 2026 · 4 days70 days to go
At a glance
- Dates
- 28–31 Dec 2026 (4 days)
- Location
- Sao Domingos, Vagator Beach, Goa, India
- Sound
- Electronic
- Crowd
- around 350,000 people
- Tickets
- €39 · 1 tier tracked
The story
Sunburn Festival 2026 will take place from December 18-19, 2026, at Little Vagator in Goa, India. This festival is recognized as the largest dance music festival in Asia, attracting over 350,000 attendees. It features impressive stage production and a lineup of world-class DJs, although the specific artists for 2026 have yet to be announced.
Sunburn Festival is a 4-day electronic festival at Sao Domingos, Vagator Beach in Goa, India. The December 2026 edition runs 28–31 Dec 2026. It draws around 350,000 people.
With room for about 350,000 people, Sunburn Festival is one of the largest events in our index: expect long entry queues, several main-stage sets running at once and a site you cannot cross in five minutes. Everything happens at Sao Domingos, Vagator Beach, in Goa. Goa 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.
Sunburn Festival keeps the same calendar slot each year: December 2026 for this edition, opening on a Monday 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 Goa 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.
- Largest dance music festival in Asia
- Attendance numbers past 350,000
- Known for high production values
- Takes place over 2 days
What the trip costs from Paris
Ticket from
€39
Return transport
€87
bus · 12h 44m each way
Place to stay
€164
Hostel / camping · 4 nights
Total door to door
€290
Door to door from Paris, a trip to Sunburn Festival works out at roughly €290 per person on the cheapest combination we track — one of the more affordable weekends in our index.
The ticket is only 13% 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 · 12h 44m each way, at €87 return.
See every ticket tier and travel option →Planning the trip, step by step
- 1Book the ticket first: tiers at Sunburn Festival are sold in waves and the cheapest wave is gone long before the line-up is complete.
- 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.
- 3Reserve 5 nights rather than 4: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
- 4Follow Sunburn Festival 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.
The organiser hasn't published the line-up for Sunburn Festival yet. It appears here — with a page for every artist — as soon as names are confirmed.
Past editions
Dates are the event's recurring calendar slot, so treat them as approximate — the organiser keeps the official archive.
2025
28–31 Dec 2025 (approx.)
2024
28–31 Dec 2024 (approx.)
2023
28–31 Dec 2023 (approx.)
Travel tips from Paris
- The site itself is Sao Domingos, Vagator Beach, in Goa.
- Book a bed in Goa early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.
- bus12h 44m · €87
- air4h 29m · €169
- car10h 26m · €214
- train7h 10m · €219