Untold Dubai — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

11–13 Nov 2026 (3 days)

Location

Dubai World Trade Centre, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Sound

Electronic

Tickets

€88 – €225 · 2 tiers tracked

Nearest airport

Not specified

Nearest station

Not specified

The story

Untold Dubai is a music festival that will take place from November 5-8, 2026, in Dubai, UAE. This festival marks Dubai's first mega music festival and will be held at Expo City Dubai. The festival has an age minimum of 21+. No camping facilities are provided, and lodging options include hotels and apartments.

Untold Dubai is a 3-day electronic festival at Dubai World Trade Centre in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The November 2026 edition runs 11–13 Nov 2026.

Everything happens at Dubai World Trade Centre, 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: November 2026 for this edition, opening on a Wednesday and closing on a Friday. 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.

• First mega music festival in Dubai
• Held at Expo City Dubai
• 21+ event
• 4-day festival

What the trip costs from Paris

Door to door from Paris, a trip to Untold Dubai works out at roughly €1,155 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 4 nights rather than 3: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
4. 4If you fly into Not specified, check the transfer time to Dubai before booking the earliest departure — the airport bus is usually the cheapest leg of the whole trip.
5. 5Follow 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

  11–13 Nov 2025 (approx.)

• 2024

  11–13 Nov 2024 (approx.)

• 2023

  11–13 Nov 2023 (approx.)

Travel tips from Paris

• Fly into Not specified, the closest airport to the site.
• Rail arrivals come through Not specified; shuttles usually run from there.
• The site itself is Dubai World Trade Centre, in Dubai.
• Book a bed in Dubai early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.

• air10h 48m · €677