Tomorrowland has been voted the World’s No. 1 Festival in the 2026 edition of DJ Mag’s Top 100 Festivals. Results for the annual poll of DJ Mag readers were announced via a social media countdown across DJ Mag’s channels, following another record-breaking voting period.
It’s fair to say there’s no event on the planet quite like Tomorrowland, which claims the crown at The World’s No. 1 Festival for a record sixth time. Each summer, the legendary festival turns the Belgium town of Boom into the epicentre of electronic music, where colossal stages, cinematic storytelling and world-class programming come together on an unmatched scale.
Welcoming around 400,000 visitors across two weekends, the site becomes a fully functioning festival city, with more than a dozen unique stages and hundreds of artists performing from day to night. This combination of scale and creative ambition continues to resonate with fans across the globe, who voted in unprecedented numbers to cement Tomorrowland’s position at the top of the DJ Mag Top 100 Festivals poll in 2026.
Reacting to the historic win, Tomorrowland founders Michiel and Manu Beers, said:
“Being voted the world’s No. 1 festival for a sixth consecutive year is an incredible honour and something we deeply appreciate. This recognition belongs to the entire Tomorrowland family: our visitors, artists, partners, suppliers and the thousands of people who work passionately behind the scenes throughout the year. To receive this recognition directly from the global electronic music community and DJ Mag readers is both humbling and inspiring. It motivates us to keep innovating, keep dreaming and continue creating magical experiences that bring people together from every corner of the world.”
DJ Mag’s Top 100 Festivals first launched in 2019, when winners were selected by a panel of DJs. After a brief hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the poll returned in 2022 with votes being opened up to the public for the first time. The voting numbers have snowballed each year since, as Top 100 Festivals follows the trajectory of DJ Mag’s other influential rankings — Top 100 DJs and Top 100 Clubs.
Moving through this year’s results, EDC Las Vegas (Electric Daisy Carnival), the flagship festival run by US events giant Insomniac, jumps back up to second place after celebrating its 30th anniversary in May. This makes it the highest North American festival, bumping Miami mainstay Ultra Music Festival down to fourth below Romania’s UNTOLD — a non-mover in third.
Two UK festivals, dance specialist Creamfields (7th place) and the iconic Glastonbury (9th) — which is currently on a fallow year to let the site recover — join India’s Sunburn (the highest Asian festival), Italy’s Kappa FuturFestival (8th), and Germany’s PAROOKAVILLE (10th) in the top 10.
Three festivals break into the top 20 this year, as Austria’s Electric Love zooms up to 11th, EDC Orlando rises to 16th, and PRIMER in Greece jumps a whopping 23 spots to 19th. Mysteryland returns to the top 20 for the first time since 2022, while German techno mainstay Time Warp and Dutch underground favourite Dekmantel are both non-movers in 14th and 17th place respectively. US titan Coachella drops out of the top 10 for the first time ever, landing at No. 12, and other poll staples Parklife, Sziget and Boomtown all drop places but remain in the top 20.
Festivals from 35 countries ranked in the poll this year. The US remains the top destination with 15, up two on last year thanks to the addition of a new entry, Miami-based III Points, and a re-entry, SoCal’s Beyond Wonderland, which dropped out of the poll in 2025. In joint second place in the country rankings are the UK and the Netherlands; both claim nine spots this year, with one new entry — hard techno event VERKNIPT Festival — bringing the Dutch level. UK festival Houghton claims this year’s Highest Climber award, rising an incredible 43 places to, coincidentally, land in 43rd place. Organised by legendary fabric resident Craig Richards, the event has become a stalwart of British underground electronic music culture since launching in 2017.
The list of the top five countries is completed by Germany and Thailand, which both have seven this year. Both bring a new entry to the poll this year: for Germany it’s NATURE ONE, which celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2025, while Thailand’s WHITE PARTY BANGKOK becomes the first dedicated LGBTQ+ festival to break into the poll. This also makes Thailand the Asian country with the most ranked festivals once again, a feat it also achieved in DJ Mag’s Top 100 Clubs poll earlier this year.
There are eight new entries overall this year. Along with the four already mentioned are Indonesia’s Halloween special, Scream Or Dance, which also claims the Highest New Entry title, landing at No. 71, the Argentinian edition of Ultra, GMO Sonic Storm in Japan, and The Magic Of Tomorrowland — the Chinese outpost of poll winners Tomorrowland, which made its debut in 2025.
