Nuits Sonores 2026

Each year, the festival transforms about 40 locations across the city of Lyon, France. Since the festival's beginnings, over 250 locations in Lyon have been used and redesigned, including art galleries, industrial wastelands, rooftops, and even swimming pools. This year, however, it becomes even more remarkable since the festival is celebrating its 23rd edition since its humble beginnings back in 2003.

On that Ascension weekend in 2003, soon to become synonymous with the festival, Nuits Sonores laid the foundations for its future identity: public space, architecture, and scenography, passionate investment in urban and industrial heritage, the vitality of the city, a solid participative dimension, a balance between competing aesthetics from the electronic scene and further afield - between the up-and-coming and the already-established, between the local scene and international artists, silliness and seriousness. All are driven by the unshakable desire to create, for five days and five nights, a multitude of new ways to experience the city. With organizers, artists, and festival-goers united by one conviction: "The city is ours, join us!"

This has always encouraged the public to explore and discover the festival by foot, bike, or using public transport. Nuits Sonores aims to decode past, present, and future innovative cultures. This unique and curious mindset brings together headliners and rising talent, popular music, and niche music from local, national, and international scenes.

When 13th -  17th May 2026
Where Lyon, France