Best EDM Festivals 2026

The best-loved EDM festivals

How we rate this: we read attendee reports from public discussion and score each festival on value, music, access, safety and facilities. These are the edm events with the warmest word of mouth. It is early, honest signal, not paid placement and not our own opinion.

1. 1The Untz Festival · CA5/5

   “One of the greatest festivals ever”

2. 2Cyclops Cove · FL5/5

   “I personally had a great time.”

3. 3Force Fields · WI5/5

   “Easily the best festival in the midwest”

4. 4Big Fam Music & Arts Festival · MI5/5

   “THIS WAS THE PERFECT WEEKEND and honestly my most favorite festival I’ve ever attended.”

5. 5Bass Canyon · WA5/5

   “Bass Canyon 2019 was my first festival and it was really really good”

The most talked-about EDM festivals

The edm events generating the most public discussion in our records, and what makes each one land.

1. 1Force Fields · WI

   Force Fields is an alien-themed EDM festival at the Chippewa Valley Music Festivals grounds in Cadott, Wisconsin, a 365-acre site with permanent infrastructure a short drive northe

2. 2EDC Orlando · FL

   EDC Orlando is Insomniac's East Coast edition of the Electric Daisy Carnival, a three-night electronic-music carnival staged each November at Tinker Field beside Camping World Stad

3. 3Excision Presents The Thunderdome · WA

   Excision Presents The Thunderdome is producer Excision's flagship indoor bass event, staged over three nights at the Tacoma Dome and billed as his biggest indoor show of the year.

4. 4The Great Beyond · MN

   The Great Beyond is a small, roughly 1,000-capacity psychedelic-techno campout held entirely outdoors on a rural sanctuary near Franklin, Minnesota.

5. 5The Untz Festival · CA

   The Untz Festival is a small, underground bass-music festival held at Sycamore Ranch in Browns Valley, in rural Yuba County, California.

House, bass, dubstep or techno? The 2026 scene read

How the 201 US EDM festivals split by sound, and where each one is going

Bass is quietly the engine of the US festival circuit. On paper house leads the tags, but bass and dubstep power the destination camping festivals people travel for. The Excision and Subtronics axis (Lost Lands in Ohio, Bass Canyon at the Gorge, Thunderdome in Tacoma) has turned heavy dubstep and riddim into a whole touring economy, and it clusters in the Pacific Northwest and Midwest, not the coasts.

House is having its mainstream moment. Tech house and the house revival (John Summit, Dom Dolla, FISHER) moved from clubs onto main stages, which is why it is the most common tag but rarely the whole festival. It concentrates in California and the big cities.

Techno is smaller but city-bound and rising. Fewer dedicated festivals, but a warehouse and day-party scene in New York, Los Angeles, Detroit and Miami feeds the underground and the Detroit-rooted revival. Drum and bass, UK-rooted, is the fastest-rising crossover sound of the last two seasons.

EDM festivals by month

When the 201 US edm festivals happen across the year

EDM season runs late. It builds through summer and peaks in September, with 29 festivals that month, when the desert and Halloween-adjacent festivals land. If you are planning, autumn is the deep end of the calendar. Tap a month for the full calendar.

Where the EDM scene clusters

The states with the most edm festivals

It clusters hardest in California (44 festivals, desert festivals and a deep house scene), then Florida (20) and Texas (14). Arizona and Nevada punch above their size on the strength of the desert-festival tradition, while the Pacific Northwest owns the bass end. Tap a state for its full list.

This week in EDM

From the Froligo Desk: what the edm scene is talking about right now.

EDM festivals in the next 30 days

Soonest first. Dates, tickets and camping on each page.

• Unsound New YorkNew York, NY Oct 20 to Nov 15, 2026
• DUSK Music FestivalTucson, AZ Nov 13 to 14, 2026
• Seismic Dance EventAustin, TX Nov 13 to 15, 2026
• Dreamstate SoCalLong Beach, CA Nov 20 to 21, 2026 (reported)
• Neon City FestivalLas Vegas, NV Nov 20 to 22, 2026
• Time Warp USBrooklyn, NY Nov 20 to 21, 2026
• Give Thanks FestivalSan Jose, CA Nov 25 to 28, 2026
• Cyclops CoveBoca Raton, FL Dec 4 to 6, 2026
• We Belong HereTampa, FL Dec 11 to 13, 2026

EDM festivals 2026: quick answers

The questions people ask most, answered from our data

How many edm festivals are there in the US?

We track 201 US edm festivals, 137 of them live or upcoming for 2026.

When is edm festival season?

It peaks in September, with 29 edm festivals that month.

Where are the most edm festivals?

California leads with 44, then Florida (20) and Texas (14).

What are the best edm festivals for 2026?

By attendee sentiment, The Untz Festival, Cyclops Cove and Force Fields lead our read.

Which EDM festivals have camping?

The destination bass festivals are the camping ones: Lost Lands, Bass Canyon and the desert events. Use the camping filter below to see every EDM festival with on-site camping.

Stay up to date

Dates move, lineups shift, prices climb. Froligo Pulse is built to tell you the moment a festival you care about changes. For what the EDM scene is talking about this week, read the Froligo Desk.

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