The appeal for Glastonbury Festival tickets is always extremely high and nowadays demand well outstrips the supply.
Looking back at some stats regarding previous Glastonbury Ticket Sale times might not help your chances of bagging the Glasto golden ticket, but it sure will give you a sense of what to expect and where things stand at the moment (and perhaps where they are heading).
That said, with the recently confirmed change to the way tickets will be bought for the 2025 edition of the Festival in the form of a new queue system, it has yet to be known what kind of sell-out times we are looking at going forward.
Nevertheless, feel free to scroll down and see how fast Glastonbury tickets sold out in previous years.
Stats between 2002 and 2008 (before the introduction of the October/November sales and registration system):
- ⏰ Glastonbury 2002:
Sold out in 8 weeks - ⏰ 2003: 18 hours
- ⏰ 2004: Within 24 hours
- ⏰ 2005: Less than 3 hours
- ⏰ 2007: 1 hour 45 minutes
(registration system introduced) - ⏰ 2008: 11.5 weeks
(by opening day Friday)
Stats of the times it took Glastonbury to sell out since the introduction of the October/November sales (2009 and onwards):
- ⏰ 2009: 4 months
(nearly five months in advance) - ⏰ 2010: 12 hours
- ⏰ 2011: 4 hours
- ⏰ 2013: 1 hour 40 minutes
- ⏰ 2014: 1 hour 27 minutes
🚌 Coach: 30 minutes - ⏰ 2015: 25 minutes
🚌 Coach: 15 minutes - ⏰ 2016: 30 minutes
🚌 Coach: 20 minutes - ⏰ 2017: 50 minutes
🚌 Coach: 22 minutes - ⏰ 2019: 36 minutes
🚌 Coach: 29 minutes - ⏰ 2020: 33 minutes
🚌 Coach: 27 minutes - ⏰ 2023: 61 minutes
🚌 Coach: 22 minutes - ⏰ 2024: 57 minutes
🚌 Coach: 25 minutes
As a side note, back in 2019, Glastonbury was given the go-ahead to increase its capacity to 210,000 (including staff, volunteers, performers, traders and others).
Glastonbury’s current number of tickets available for public purchase stands at 135,000, which means adding the additional 7,000 tickets will see that number increase to a total of 142,000 public tickets, and by doing so raising the chances of getting a Glasto ticket.
Additionally, there are 5,000 tickets available to local people who live within a specified radius of the Festival which grants the holder access to the site only on the last day of the event.
While 63,000 tickets cover all staff and performers which includes medical, security, volunteers, traders and more.
As of the time of writing, it is yet unclear whether the number of attendees will actually be increased for the next instalment of the Festival.
To learn more about registration, the sale process and how you can maximise your chances of getting Glastonbury 2025 tickets, click here.
