List of Overseas Music Festivals [2025–2026]: A Comprehensive Roundup Across All Genres

It is France’s largest rock festival, also known for hosting a collaboration stage with Japan’s Summer Sonic. Boasting a very long history since its inception in 1989, it is a prestigious event that draws over 100,000 attendees over three days.

Rock Werchter has been held annually in Belgium since 1975. It’s a long-running, large-scale festival where rock stars gather. With such a long history, the lineup is always outstanding. If you’re a fan of Western rock music, you’ll definitely enjoy its thrilling roster.

The Open'er Festival is an event held in Gdynia, on Poland’s northern coast. In its first year, 2002, the festival was organized in Warsaw as an outdoor festival. The organizer of the festival is the concert agency Alter Art. The Open'er Festival won the top award at the European Festival Awards ceremony in 2009 and 2010.

Roskilde Festival is an outdoor festival in Denmark that was started in 1971 by two university students and has been operated as a non-profit organization since its inception. Today, it is run by around 50 staff members along with thousands of volunteers, and is counted among the five major festivals in Europe.

British Summer Time is a music event held every year in June and July in Hyde Park, in the heart of London. Despite being a large-scale festival, it takes place right in central London and is popular with people of all ages. It’s an extremely popular event with fierce competition for tickets, featuring headliners who are either standout artists of the year or legendary acts that have made their mark on music history.