Coachella 2027 is officially heading back to the Empire Polo Club in Indio for two huge weekends: April 9–11 and April 16–18.
That means six days of pop, rock, hip-hop, electronic music, global sounds, giant art and extremely committed desert fashion.
The lineup remains hidden, but Coachella is one of the few festivals where an empty poster already feels like an event.
The headliner guesses, reunion theories and surprise-guest math have plenty of time to get wonderfully out of control.
➜ The real story: Coachella isn’t just booking another music festival. It’s staging pop culture’s annual group chat in a polo field, then letting the rest of the internet argue over it in real time.
Goldenvoice confirmed the 2027 dates immediately after the 2026 festival and opened the advance sale on May 1. Those advance-sale passes are no longer available, but Coachella has opened official waitlists for both weekends and hotel packages are still available.
The 2027 lineup hasn’t been announced yet. For now, the dates, venue and first round of ticket prices are official, while the actual artist poster remains the very large missing piece.
Weekend One runs Friday, April 9 through Sunday, April 11, while Weekend Two follows from Friday, April 16 through Sunday, April 18. Both weekends take place at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California.
Coachella 2026 happened April 10–12 and April 17–19, so the 2027 festival shifts one day earlier on the calendar while staying in its familiar run of consecutive April weekends.
Coachella says both weekends will feature the same lineup, art, food and activities.
Weekend One usually carries the first-look energy, while Weekend Two gives everyone a week to study the set times, learn where the water stations are and reconsider at least one shoe choice.
The important part is that these dates are official.
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You can plan around them now without doing the speculative calendar gymnastics required for festivals that are still playing coy.
Coachella is a genuinely multi-genre festival, but its sweet spot is the collision between the biggest names in pop, hip-hop, rock, R&B and electronic music and the more adventurous artists rising underneath them.
Latin music, K-pop, Afrobeats, indie, punk, experimental music and global dance sounds have all become increasingly important parts of the mix.
Recent editions have spread that programming across spaces including the Coachella Stage, Outdoor Theatre, Mojave, Gobi, Sahara, Sonora, Yuma and Quasar, with the Do LaB adding its own electronic universe inside the larger festival.
You can move from a stadium-scale pop set to underground house, a cult guitar band or a left-field international act in the time it takes to cross the field.
The 2027 artist lineup is still unannounced, so any names circulating right now are predictions rather than confirmations.
The latest five Coachella 2027 lineup favorites ranked in order are SZA, Tame Impala, Fred again.., Radiohead, and Dua Lipa, in that order.
BTS has fallen out of the top five, replaced by SZA.
On August 21, Covers reported that SZA had jumped 66 percentage points during August to reach 92% in the Kalshi market.
Tame Impala has risen from fifth in the previous ranking to the market’s second position at 57%.
Coachella has historically built its biggest moments around superstar headliners, major reunions, rare bookings, electronic spectacle and surprise guests who instantly take over the internet.
The previous lineup included names like Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber, and Karol G, along with major acts The Strokes, The xx, Nine Inch Noize, Anyma, Disclosure, Turnstile, Jack White, and Young Thug.
Radiohead, Björk, Beyoncé, Daft Punk, Prince, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg,Bad Bunny, Harry Styles, BLACKPINK, Arcade Fire, Paul McCartney, Outkast, Lady Gaga, and Kendrick Lamar are the top iconic names to have headlined the festival throughout its history.
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That booking philosophy has changed a lot since the festival launched in 1999, but the core idea still works: put mainstream culture and music discovery uncomfortably close together and see what catches fire.
Coachella sells three-day passes for one complete weekend rather than single-day tickets.
A Weekend One pass works only for April 9–11, and a Weekend Two pass works only for April 16–18.
Official General Admission prices for Weekend One were $599 at Tier 1, $649 at Tier 2 and $699 at Tier 3. Weekend Two started lower at $549, then moved to $599 and $649 across its three GA tiers.
VIP started at $1,299 for Weekend One and $1,249 for Weekend Two, with the next tiers priced at $1,399 and $1,349.
Coachella says the listed prices include service fees, and there’s no difference between pricing tiers beyond what you pay, so buying earlier is the entire game.
GA includes entry to the festival for all three days and access to GA camping areas. VIP adds dedicated areas with shaded seating, upgraded restrooms, specialty food and drink vendors and full cashless bars, but it doesn’t turn every stage into a guaranteed front-row experience.
Coachella also offers GA passes bundled with three-day shuttle access, discounted four-packs, separate camping and parking passes, hotel packages and much more expensive on-site lodging.
The advance-sale payment plan started at $49 down, with the remaining balance split into equal payments through January 2027 and a separate flat payment-plan fee.
The official site currently says advance-sale passes are no longer available, so fans can join the Weekend One or Weekend Two waitlist and watch for the next ticket window after the lineup arrives.
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Avoid unofficial sellers unless you’re comfortable assuming the risk, because Coachella explicitly warns that it won’t authenticate or support third-party passes.
Coachella’s real scale comes from everything surrounding the stages.
The Empire Polo Club becomes a temporary desert city filled with monumental art, palm-lined sightlines, food, fashion, camping, parties and enough visual spectacle to make a normal concert feel almost underdressed.
The festival also lives far beyond Indio. Livestreams, surprise-guest clips, new stage productions and celebrity sightings move across the internet all weekend, which means Coachella can dominate the conversation even for people sitting several states away in sweatpants.
That cultural footprint is part of the fun and occasionally part of the absurdity. You can spend an afternoon finding artists you’ve never heard of, watch a global superstar after dark and somehow still end up discussing a giant sculpture or somebody’s aggressively impractical outfit on the walk back.
It’s hot, expensive and logistically intense, but when the lineup, production and desert sunset all hit at once, Coachella still knows how to make an ordinary festival weekend feel like the center of the music world.
Coachella 2027 Weekend One is officially scheduled for April 9–11, and Weekend Two is scheduled for April 16–18. Both weekends feature the same lineup, art, food and activities.
Coachella 2027 will take place at the Empire Polo Club at 81-800 Avenue 51 in Indio, California, in the Coachella Valley.
Official advance-sale GA prices started at $599 for Weekend One and $549 for Weekend Two. VIP started at $1,299 for Weekend One and $1,249 for Weekend Two. Advance-sale passes are no longer available, but official waitlists are open. |
