Festivals

Boom, Belgium · July

The largest mainstage electronic festival in the world, spread across two summer weekends in Boom.

HouseTranceElectronic

Spaarnwoude, Netherlands · June

The Netherlands' flagship techno festival, drawing tens of thousands over a single weekend.

Techno

Amsterdamse Bos, Amsterdam, Netherlands · 29 Jul – 2 Aug 2026

Amsterdam forest festival built around the Dekmantel label's deep, selector-driven booking.

TechnoHouseElectronic

Barcelona, Spain · June

Barcelona's festival for experimental, forward-leaning electronic music and audiovisual art.

ElectronicTechnoHouse

Mannheim, Germany · April

Long-running indoor techno marathon in Mannheim's Maimarkthalle, now with satellite editions worldwide.

Techno

Turin, Italy · July

Riverside techno and house festival in Parco Dora, consistently ranked among Europe's best.

TechnoHouse

Zrće Beach, Novalja, Croatia · August

Beach-club techno and house festival on Pag Island, part of Croatia's Adriatic festival circuit.

TechnoHouse

Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands · August

One of the world's oldest running dance festivals, spanning a wide range of electronic styles.

HouseTranceElectronic

Weeze, Germany · July

Large-scale mainstage EDM festival built as a fictional festival 'city' near the Dutch border.

HouseElectronic

Amsterdam, Netherlands · April

Sustainability-minded techno and house festival held on Amsterdam's NDSM wharf.

TechnoHouse

Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal · August (biennial)

Biennial psytrance and world-culture gathering on the shores of the Idanha-a-Nova reservoir.

PsytranceElectronic

Dour, Belgium · July

Broad alternative-music festival with a consistently strong electronic and bass programme.

ElectronicTechno

Lärz, Germany · June / July

Non-commercial, art-driven festival on a former military airfield, long a reference point for European club culture.

TechnoHouseElectronic

Kastellaun, Germany · August

Trance and techno festival held in a former NATO missile depot in the Hunsrück hills.

TranceTechno

Amsterdam-Duivendrecht, Netherlands · August

House and techno festival known for its immersive, theatrical stage design.

HouseTechno

Neustadt-Glewe, Germany · July

One of Germany's largest EDM festivals, spanning trance, house and mainstage electronic acts.

TranceHouseElectronic

Olganitz, Germany · July

Intimate, long-running festival at a bungalow village, focused on minimal, deep and understated club sounds.

Minimal TechnoDeep HouseTechno

The Garden, Tisno, Croatia · August / September

Bay-side festival on the Dalmatian coast spanning techno, house, bass and left-field electronic music.

TechnoHouseD&B

Tilburg, Netherlands · September

Independent, non-profit festival known for adventurous, genre-crossing electronic programming.

ElectronicTechnoAmbient

Crato, Portugal · August

Countryside festival in the Alentejo blending psytrance, techno and organic-electronic live acts.

PsytranceTechnoElectronic

Thessaloniki, Greece · September

Thessaloniki's techno and house festival, a fixture of Greece's electronic music calendar.

TechnoHouse

Amsterdam, Netherlands · October

The world's largest club-culture conference and festival, with thousands of showcases across the city.

TechnoHouseElectronic

Ferropolis, Germany · July

Electronic and alternative festival staged among the giant excavators of the Ferropolis open-air museum.

ElectronicHouseTechno

Budva, Montenegro · July

Adriatic beach festival pairing house and techno line-ups with a wider alternative music bill.

HouseTechno

Copenhagen, Denmark · June

Copenhagen's own street-and-club festival week, closing with a large-scale harbour rave — the local bridge between the city's club scene and the wider European festival circuit.

HouseTechnoElectronic