Glastonbury is by far the biggest music festival in the UK, and 2025 tickets are expected to sell like hotcakes – especially seeing as the event will take a fallow year in 2026 to allow the land to rest, meaning there will be no more Glasto music action until 2027.
According to research by LG Gram, there will be potentially up to 5.95 million devices vying for tickets, and people are prepared to wait around 5.4 hours in queues, so competition is fierce.
Thursday’s coach tickets sold out in a whopping 32 minutes. General admission tickets hit the online shelves on Sunday 17 November at 9am GMT.
Tickets cost £373.50, with a £5 booking fee and a £75 deposit upfront.
Whether you’re a Glasto newbie or a seasoned veteran, getting tickets can be an arduous task. If you want to give yourself the best chance of getting in, we have four tips you can try to get ahead of the pack.
1. Check you’re registered
Glastonbury has advised that anyone who wants to attend the festival should have already registered for an account – the deadline for this was on Monday 11 November. If you’ve missed this, then you won’t be able to buy a ticket, but you could get a chance to bag tickets in the resale which should take place in April.
The organisers have advised that you should check/retrieve your details here in advance of tickets going on sale, rather than leaving it to the last minute.
2. DON’T refresh your page
In previous years, prospective festival goers would have to refresh the page when the ticket sales kicked off. However, this year all you need to do is make sure you have the glastonbury.seetickets.com page open and logged in with your registration details before the time they drop, and then you’ll be assigned a place in a queue randomly (a new feature this year).
You must have the page open beforehand because if you log on after the sale has started, you’ll be sent to the back of the queue – reducing your chances of bagging tickets. There will be a progress bar that will indicate how far away you are from being able to book.
Be warned, as Thursday’s queue did not give users a number, so you’ll only have the progress bar to rely on.
If you refresh, or if your device goes to sleep, then you’ll lose your place in the queue – so stay vigilant!
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3. Use your best tech, but beware
You’ll want a fast device with a reliable internet connection. So, use the most powerful piece of tech you have – be that your smartphone, laptop or tablet. Make sure you’re connected using private Wi-Fi or 5G – if you can, use an ethernet cable for a more stable and potentially faster connection.
Glastonbury has warned that using multiple tabs and/or devices for one registration could result in you being bumped to the back of the queue.
The website will know this as the servers will be able to identify your IP address. So, you could try using a VPN like NordVPN connected to a UK server, which may be able to allow you to bypass this restriction.
However, users on Reddit have warned against this strategy, as there’s a chance you could still be flagged – proceed at your own risk.
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4. Buddy up
The best way to improve your chances of getting tickets is to find a group of people who are also planning on going to Glasto.
We’d advise banding together a group of friends or family members and creating a WhatsApp group for clear communication. Make sure you all agree on a budget and have a shared document with all your names, postcodes and registration numbers readily available to copy and paste when the time is right.
In the past, people who get into the site to buy a first batch have then been able to buy more, so keep that in mind if you’re planning on going in a big group. If multiple people in your group get in, just make sure that nobody tries to enter the same registration number as someone else.
You should be able to enter up to six registration details on one transaction, and that includes your own.
Also, keep in mind that the site could freeze you for up to ten minutes if you enter your wrong card details at checkout, so have these on hand ready to go.
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If all else fails…
Don’t give up hope too early! Keep trying for tickets until the official Glastonbury social accounts tell you it’s all over.
If you do miss out, then there will be some resales in spring 2025 where you can try your luck again. Failing all of that, you’ll be able to catch a good portion of the festival over on the BBC and iPlayer – no wellies needed.
If you’re thinking about buying tickets from a third-party site, we’d advise caution. QR code generator says to only use a brand with a trusted name, as many scams are out there. Things to be aware of are significant discounts on tickets, and sellers that ask for bank details rather than secure payment methods like credit cards or PayPal.
Author: Hannah Cowton-Barnes, Entertainment Editor, Tech Advisor
As Tech Advisor's Entertainment Editor, Hannah is the resident expert in all things streaming, film and TV. Before joining Tech Advisor in 2019, she studied Theatre and Performance at the University of Leeds and created a website dedicated to geek culture and lifestyle. She's also reviewed a whole range of gadgets including flagship smartphones, wearables and styling tools. Outside of Foundry, she's written freelance pieces for Polygon, Metro and Den of Geek, and is proud to be a Women Techmakers Ambassador for Google.