Untold Dubai — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

25–28 Oct 2026 (4 days)

Location

Expo City Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Sound

Electronic

Tickets

€88 – €225 · 2 tiers tracked

The story

Untold Dubai is Dubai's first mega music festival scheduled for November 5-8, 2026. It takes place at Expo City Dubai. The event will feature electronic music and is an age-restricted festival allowing attendees 21 years and older. The complete artist lineup has yet to be announced, and there are no camping options available on-site.

Untold Dubai is a 4-day electronic festival at Expo City Dubai in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The October 2026 edition runs 25–28 Oct 2026.

Everything happens at Expo City Dubai, in Dubai. Dubai 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.

Untold Dubai keeps the same calendar slot each year: October 2026 for this edition, opening on a Sunday and closing on a Wednesday. 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 Dubai 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.

• Venue: Expo City Dubai
• 21+ age minimum
• Not offering camping
• 4-day festival
• Independent organization

What the trip costs from Paris

Door to door from Paris, a trip to Untold Dubai works out at roughly €1,061 per person on the cheapest combination we track — a higher-budget weekend, mostly because of the travel leg.

The ticket is only 8% 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 air · 10h 48m each way, at €677 return.

Planning the trip, step by step

1. 1Book the ticket first: tiers at Untold Dubai 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 5 nights rather than 4: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
4. 4Follow Untold Dubai 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

  25–28 Oct 2025 (approx.)

• 2024

  25–28 Oct 2024 (approx.)

• 2023

  25–28 Oct 2023 (approx.)

Travel tips from Paris

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

• air10h 48m · €677