Why Tomorrowland is so hard to get into

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Why Tomorrowland is so hard to get into: about 400,000 tickets, a pre-registration that guarantees nothing, half the tickets kept for Belgium – and in 2025 Belgium's 200,000 were gone in 18 minutes.

Half the tickets stay in Belgium; the world races for the rest in minutes.

Facts

  • Tomorrowland runs over two weekends in De Schorre park in Boom, Belgium, about 16 km south of Antwerp. In 2024 all 400,000 tickets sold out. For the 20th edition in July 2026 the organisers expected around 400,000 festivalgoers from “more than 200 countries” (their count; the UN has 193 member states), with Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Germany and Spain the five biggest nationalities.
  • The sale runs in a set order. In 2024 a limited batch went first to residents of Boom, Rumst and the Rupel area, and the Global Journey travel packages had sold out before the Belgian presale. Then about 200,000 tickets – half – were reserved for the Belgian public, as usual (2023, 2024, 2026). The other half goes in global sales that Belgians can join too.
  • Every buyer has to pre-register with a personal Tomorrowland account, and registration does not guarantee a ticket (2024). In 2019 registrations rose 30 %, which “slowed down the presale process considerably”; in 2016 Belgium's sale peaked at 130,000 people on the waiting list.
  • Belgium's 2025 presale opened at 11:00 on Saturday 25 January: all 200,000 tickets were reserved by 11:18 and paid for by 11:30. In 2024 Belgium's 200,000 went in under half an hour, and on 3 February the remaining 200,000 sold out in less than 30 minutes. That year 2,000 tickets were blocked for suspected fraud: buyers were trying to resell them online at exorbitant prices.
  • Global Journey packages bundle a ticket with travel and a hotel; they started in 2012 with Brussels Airlines. In 2026, 51,000 packages were bought and about 50,000 people from 165 countries came on them. Brussels Airlines alone flew 24,734 festivalgoers from 106 countries on 409 flights; Spain was its biggest market, with more than 7,000. About 38,000 people were camping at DreamVille on the first Friday of 2025.
  • The first Tomorrowland, in 2005, was a single day for about 10,000 visitors (Dutch Wikipedia says about 9,500). It first ran over two weekends in 2014, and every edition since 2017 has had two (three in 2022; none in 2020–21).

Sources

  1. The Brussels Times with Belga: Belgian tickets for Tomorrowland sell out in under 20 minutes (25 January 2025) · Brussels Times checked 10 October 2026
  2. The Brussels Times with Belga: Tomorrowland festival sold out (4 February 2024) · Brussels Times checked 10 October 2026
  3. The Brussels Times with Belga: Tomorrowland tickets for Belgian citizens sell out in 30 minutes (27 January 2024) · Brussels Times checked 10 October 2026
  4. The Brussels Times: Belgian tickets presale for Tomorrowland already sold out (24 January 2026) · Brussels Times checked 10 October 2026
  5. The Brussels Times with Belga: Tomorrowland sold out for Belgian public (28 January 2023) · Brussels Times checked 10 October 2026
  6. The Brussels Times (Belga): Belgian tickets for Tomorrowland sold out in 40 minutes (30 January 2016) · Brussels Times checked 10 October 2026
  7. The Brussels Times: Tickets for Tomorrowland sell out in no time yet again (27 January 2019) · Brussels Times checked 10 October 2026
  8. The Brussels Times: Tomorrowland ticket presale registration starts on Saturday (Jules Johnston, 12 December 2019) · Brussels Times checked 10 October 2026
  9. The Brussels Times: Tomorrowland confirms first Thailand edition for December 2026 (6 January 2026) · Brussels Times checked 10 October 2026
  10. The Brussels Times with Belga: Tomorrowland's foreign visitors begin arriving in Belgium (13 July 2026) · Brussels Times checked 10 October 2026
  11. The Brussels Times with Belga: Tomorrowland kicks off 20th anniversary edition in Boom (17 July 2026) · Brussels Times checked 10 October 2026
  12. Brussels Airlines: Brussels Airlines kicks off Tomorrowland travel with its Party Flights (press release, 15 July 2026) · Brussels Airlines checked 10 October 2026
  13. Wikipedia: Tomorrowland (festival) · Wikipedia checked 10 October 2026
  14. Euronews (with AP): Belgium's Tomorrowland festival opens after massive fire destroyed main stage (18 July 2025) · Euronews checked 10 October 2026
  15. VRT NWS: Tomorrowland kan nog 66 jaar in De Schorre in Boom blijven (26 October 2023) · VRT NWS checked 10 October 2026

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Why is Tomorrowland so hard to get into? Two weekends in Boom, Belgium. About 400,000 tickets. In 2026, about 50,000 fans arrived on its travel packages, from 165 countries. You can't just buy one. You pre-register, and even that guarantees nothing. But half of all tickets are kept for Belgium. The other 200,000 are open to the world. In 2024, they sold out in under 30 minutes. That year, 2,000 tickets were blocked: their buyers tried to resell them at huge markups. Belgium's 2025 sale opened at 11:00. By 11:18, all 200,000 were gone.

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Sources last checked 10 October 2026.