Time Warp Germany — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

2–3 Apr 2027 (2 days)

Location

Maimarkthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

Sound

Electronic · Techno

Tickets

€69 · 1 tier tracked

The story

Time Warp Germany is a 2-day electronic, techno festival at Maimarkthalle Mannheim in Mannheim, Germany. The April 2027 edition runs 2–3 Apr 2027.

Expect stages split between Electronic and Techno.

Everything happens at Maimarkthalle Mannheim, in Mannheim. Mannheim 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.

Time Warp Germany keeps the same calendar slot each year: April 2027 for this edition, opening on a Friday and closing on a Saturday. It falls in spring, ahead of the summer festival rush, which usually keeps travel cheaper than the July and August dates. That slot matters for the budget — flights and rooms in Mannheim 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 Time Warp Germany works out at roughly €392 per person on the cheapest combination we track — one of the more affordable weekends in our index.

The ticket is only 18% 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 · 8h 19m each way, at €59 return.

Planning the trip, step by step

1. 1Book the ticket first: tiers at Time Warp Germany 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 3 nights rather than 2: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
4. 4Follow Time Warp Germany 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

  2–3 Apr 2026 (approx.)

• 2025

  2–3 Apr 2025 (approx.)

• 2024

  2–3 Apr 2024 (approx.)

Travel tips from Paris

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

• bus8h 19m · €59
• car6h 49m · €137
• air4h 8m · €141
• train4h 58m · €153