There’s nothing better than spending the weekend away camping with friends and dancing to your favorite artists. I love a good camping festival, and Europe has tons of amazing ones to choose from! While it’s practically impossible to visit all of these in the same summer, definitely add these to your festival bucket list!
Yes, a few of these festivals are already well-established and popular, but there are some really great hidden gems in this article.
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Have you been to any of these Europe camping festivals already? Let me know!
But for now, let’s dive into the list of the 15 best Europe camping festivals to hit this summer!
1) EarthGarden Festival
When: June 6-9, 2024
Where: Ta’ Qali National Park, MALTA
http://www.earthgarden.com.mt/
Earth Garden Festival returns on June 4, 5, 6 and 7 to its natural home in Ta’ Qali National Park, bringing the ultimate festival experience to Malta. This is a festival with an international reputation for outstanding line ups, pumping dance floors, friendly hospitality, hugs, fun & sun, attracting close to 30,000 true music lovers spread over 4 days on the sunny island of Malta, right in the heart of the Mediterranean.
Furthermore, Earth Garden has been a pioneer in implementing new environmentally friendly waste management since the very first edition. The festival has consistently improved its green strategy and strived to find new ways to increase public awareness on environmental matters.
The festival offers 6 music stages featuring over 100 acts and involving over 200 musicians, delivering a unique fusion of World Music, Ska, Funk, Blues, Reggae, Alterative Rock, Dub, Hip-Hop, Psychedelic Trance, Techno, Acid, House, Disco and a lot more! It also features one of the best international food courts on the island, a colorful Ethnic Market, Healing Fields, a naturally shaded campsite, and also a Fun Park for the young ones and the young at heart.
Considered as a music haven for true connoisseurs, Earth Garden offers the ultimate festival experience!
Read more: Earth Garden – The Alternative Festival | The Best Music Festivals in Malta
2) Meadows in the Mountains
When: June 6-10, 2024
Where: Rhodopes Mountains, Bulgaria
Website: http://www.meadowsinthemountains.com/
“Nestled in the stunning heart of the Rhodope Mountains near Bulgaria’s Greek border, Meadows in the Mountains is set in an otherworldly and jaw-dropping setting that is unmatched anywhere on the planet.
A truly encompassing and unique music and arts festival that brings to life the possibility of real adventure embraced by guaranteed sun and friendly faces. The magic is fused with a thoughtful, inspired and explorative music and arts line up that burns brightly all day and all night against the magical back drop of the intimately beautiful mountain top scenery that makes it so very special.”
3) Tinderbox
When: June 27-29, 2024
Where: Odense, Denmark
Website: http://www.tinderbox.dk/
“Tinderbox is one of Denmark’s largest music festivals. Every year it presents a star packed and broad lineup of international world artists, the best from the Danish music stage and electronic music, which blasts through the speakers on the explosive, electronic stage, Magicbox.
Get carried away by the festival site, packed with dozens of happenings in its magic setting. Do not miss out on Comedy or the nostalgic 90s party at Groovebox, the view from the ferris wheel and the champagne hill, or the idyllic Moonshine and extraordinary culinary experiences.
Tinderbox focuses on sustainability. For example, the festival uses reusable beer mugs only and waste is sorted into 15 fractions to recycle as much as possible. Furthermore, the amount of green energy will additionally increase in 2021.
Sustainability, diversity, traditions and local anchoring are the cornerstones of the festival.”
4) Dour Festival
When: July 17-21, 2024
Where: Dour, Belgium
Website: http://www.dourfestival.be/en
“Dour Festival is an annual music festival in the municipality of Dour, Belgium. Since its creation in 1988, the festival has grown to an attendance of about 225,000 in 2015. The first year, only five bands were programmed. The festival format now consists of 5 days, 9 stages and more than 280 bands and DJs.”
Read more about epic music festivals in Belgium!
5) Festival Internacional de Benicàssim (FIB
Benicàssim)
When: July 18-20, 2024
Where: Benicassim, Spain
Website: http://www.fiberfib.com/en/
“Started in 1995, FIB Benicàssim Festival is an annual music festival in Benicàssim Spain.” Four days of camping with friends and dancing to one of Europe’s most diverse line-ups spanning nearly every genre. [FIB] focuses mainly on pop, rock and electronica artists, as well as having other elements including short films, fashion shows and art. Benicassim has a reputation as being among the best on the international festival circuit.”
6) Positivus Festival
When: July 19-20, 2024
Where: Riga, Latvia
https://www.positivusfestival.com/en
“Positivus festival is the largest popular music and art festival in the Baltics, which had taken place in Salacgrīva since 2007 and has gathered up to 30,000 music lovers from Latvia and abroad every festival year. The festival has gathered many important and well-known foreign music stars like Muse, Nick Cave, Robert Plant, Iggy Pop, Imagine Dragons, Ellie Goulding, The xx, Sigur Rós, Sinéad O’Connor, and many others, a total of several hundred famous musicians of different generations. Positivus festival has been mentioned in foreign media along with other festivals in Europe that are worth attending, and has been nominated for various European Festival Awards.”
7) Vodafone Paredes de Coura
When: August 14-17, 2024
Where: Paredes de Coura, Portugal
https://www.paredesdecoura.com
“Paredes de Coura Festival is an alternative music festival in northern Portugal. Situated in the scenic riverside Praia do Taboão, the festival’s location is almost unrivalled in terms of natural beauty, with picturesque woodland and inviting waters open for exploration.The festival is one of the country’s most established, and across its rich history it has developed an enviable reputation not only for securing high profile performers from across the globe, but also for showcasing exciting new acts on their ascent to stardom.”
Read more about music festivals in Portugal!
8) Château Perché Festival
When: June 27-30, 2024
Where: Arboretum de Balaine, Central France
https://www.facebook.com/ChateauPercheFestival/
“Château Perché was born in 2015. It draws about 6,000 festival-goers every summer. The festival features more than 200 live acts inside and around the castle. This event is an enchanting playground for adults that won’t be easy to forget. Progressivism, weirdness, madness, communion, glitter—it’s all here!”
9) Flow Festival
When: August 9-11, 2024
Where: Helsinki, Finland
Website: http://www.flowfestival.com/en
“Flow Festival is an music festival taking place in Helsinki yearly in mid-August. The music presented at Flow is a strong and varied selection of up and coming and established artists from indie-rock to soul and jazz and from folk to contemporary club sounds, both from the domestic and the international scene. Alongside great music, Flow is about urban spaces, arts, cosy decoration, good food and drinks.”
10) B. My Lake
When: July 3-6, 2024
Where: Lake Balaton, Hungary
Website: http://www.bmylake.hu/
“B my Lake Festival also known as the, “Mecca of electronic music”, takes place to round off the summer with a boom. Since its debut in 2013, B my Lake has become one of Hungary’s most popular festival and the #1 summer destination for the lovers of electronic music..
Thanks to its popularity, forward-thinking approach and exciting programs B my Lake, right in its first year, had won the award for “Best New European Festival” in the prestigious European Festival Awards. No wonder it had, as the organizers managed to create a somewhat niche, but immensely demanded line-up each year.
B my Lake is yet again bringing an insane line-up to Hungary’s, festival capital” Zamárdi, a must-see town, boasting an amazing panorama and wonderful lakeside location, merely 110 km’s away from Budapest.
11) Ypsigrock Festival
When: August 8-11, 2024
Where: Castelbuono, Sicily, Italy
Genre: Alternative / Indie / Rock
“Ypsigrock Festival is an alternative music festival in Castelbuono, Sicily. Now in its third decade, the festival has a strong reputation for bringing impressive lineups of underground and left-field talent to the Italian island.
A huge part of Ypsigrock’s appeal comes from the impressive locations used to host performances, with historic courtyards, cloisters and piazzas transformed into festival stages, hosting exciting new artists alongside established acts from alternative music’s recent history.”
12) O.Z.O.R.A
When: July 26-August 6, 2024
Where: Dadpuszta, Hungary
“Described as a psychedelic tribal gathering, O.Z.O.R.A attracts all lovers of trance and psychedelic music. It’s quickly growing to be one of the largest of it’s kind in the world, and helping to increase the number of visitors to this stunning country. O.Z.O.R.A is one of the best festivals in Europe to bring a campervan to given the numerous facilities on site. With water stations, a grocery store and a greengrocer, you’ll be able to run your own little kitchen and enjoy delicious meals to energize you for the days/nights ahead! Find yourself in the art, music and colours of this transforming event, and relish in a fully packed suitcase waiting for you in your very own home on wheels.”
13) Wacken Open Air
When: July 31-August 3, 2024
Where: Wacken, Germany
“Wacken Open Air is a heavy metal music festival, held annually since 1989 on the first weekend of August in the village of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Almost all styles and subgenres of hard rock and metal are represented and hosted.”
14) Into The Great Wide Open
When: August 29-September 1, 2024
Where: Vlieland, The Netherlands
https://intothegreatwideopen.nl
“‘Into The Great Wide Open is a pop festival on Vlieland, a small island on the coast of The Netherlands. A gathering with your friends and family: good music, visual arts, film, oysters and Mother Nature in all its grandeur. Into The Great Wide Open is a festival for all ages, an initiative of a group of people who know each other from pop music and who are creating their dream festival on Vlieland.’
15) Vieilles Charrues Festival
When: July 11-14, 2024
Where: Carhaix, France
https://www.vieillescharrues.asso.fr
“The Vieilles Charrues Festival is held every year in mid-July in the city of Carhaix, located in western Brittany, France. This festival is the largest music festival in France, attracting more than 280,000 festival-goers every year. This festival was created in 1992 in Landeleau, a small village in central Finistère.”
When it comes to music festivals in Europe over the summer, there are honestly so many different amazing options! This list could go on for quite awhile, but I wanted to keep this list a bit short!
You should definitely visit Art Nouveau Architecture in Riga, Latvia.
The capital of Latvia is the largest city in the three Baltic states and is home to one third of Latvia’s total population.
There’s a youthful vitality to Riga that shines through in its thumping nightlife, trendy dining spots and thriving alternative scene.
Riga has an absorbing history to uncover, as a Medieval Hanseatic League member, and a city that has lived under Swedish, Polish, Russian Empire, Soviet and Nazi rule.
the Festival of Creativity and the Festival of Sensuality in the Czech Republic are small and cosy with only 100 people allowed in each :) The kind of place you can just turn up and make friends..
http://www.roadjunkyfestival.com
http://www.sensualityfestival.com