Worst time to buy tix: Immediately after presale or general sale is sold out. FOMO on tickets will be at an all time high, people will panic as their friends get passes and people will pay/charge a premium.

Waiting for the dust to settle after ticket sales is the best time to find tickets. Excitement has died and things come up for people and they just want their money back or dont want to be stuck with them later. This gets tricky as the festival gets closer, people who didnt have tickets will start looking and the demand will begin to increase.

The headliners play a huge role in how high ticket prices can get (see Outkast 2014 where WK1 passes were hovering around $1k/pass)

Opposite question- what’s the best time to SELL tickets? Right after the line up get dropped? Unfortunately had something come up and I’m trying to make a bit on top to help soothe the pain

Depends who’s on the lineup. Lineups like 2019 and 2013 with less-rare headliners ended up at or even below face value for Weekend 2, whereas the Beyonce year, they were expensive until the very end. With it being the first Coachella post-pandemic, I anticipate they likely won’t drop unless they somehow dropa dumpster fire of a lineup.

With taxes and fees, that is only about $80-100ish more than face value so that isn’t awful. Tickets were more expensive with the tier system this year :(

It's kind of impossible to say ... that said, I don't know about you, but I'm DYING to be at a music festival and I would pay way more than I would have pre-pandemic. It really comes down to good old "Supply and Demand".

I buy on presale, always, because that way I minimize risk and don't have to deal with the onsale scrum in January. I know I will have a great time regardless of lineup, and I trust the lineup will allow me to fill out my days with great music.

Usually you can sell weekend 1 for face and weekend 2 at a loss. The year Bey headlined was an exception --- tickets went for well above face both weekends --- but there are only 2-3 artists in the world likely to cause that.

If you go expecting very specific artists to be there you will 100% be disappointed. If that’s what will make you want to sell your tickets just wait until the lineup is announced and avoid the headache. Maybe get flights/lodging figured out if you can find something that is refundable.

Been going since 2010 and this was the first year I wasn’t that excited about the lineup when it first dropped as I didn’t know that many artists. That changed as soon as I started exploring the lineup and my top two performances this year (Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso and Gustavo Dudamel) were artists that I hadn’t even heard about before Coachella.

I've gone to Coachella 16 times. The lineup is always phenomenal. If not about the headliners it's about exploring and learning new music. Think of going to a restaurant experiencing different foods for the first time in an amazing atmosphere with really cool people. That's what it's all about. Book it get your lodging go all in and you will not regret it!

Yes you can sell your tickets if you aren’t interested, you may take a hit if the lineup isn’t popular. But just go, there’s always quality

Tickets sell for a loss, preferred camping sell for 100% profit

The issue isn’t gonna be tickets. It will be flight and lodging.

From what I’ve gathered… people local to SoCal don’t buy their Coachella ticket early for that reason.

You should be fine waiting for the lineup to drop

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The lineup drops by the end of the year and then people decide wich weekend. I personally choose to buy it when presale started for W1 since with my work schedule it works the best and then figure out the rest later on. I am going alone so i don't know yet if i want to integratea group in car camping or a hotel yet. i am searching the best option and then my flight is between LAX or PSP.

Your question doesn’t really make sense. Like do you mean the lineup drops and then when do you purchase? Cause the lineup will drop (let’s say in a Tuesday) and then they will go on sale later that week on Friday.

time period between the 2 to purchase the tickets

Tickets were completly sold out for the 2020 festival, a lot of people are most likely rolling over their tickets from then. I don’t think there’s going to be a sale for 2022 if all the tickets are already bought/accounted for. Most likely you’ll have to buy resale at this point.

I bought my April 2022 tickets in June of 2019. Wierd, but apparently true.

To preface I wanna say that this has been a weird couple of years and it’s hard to say whether or not it’ll be a conventional ticket sale as well.

Usually tickets for the following year go on presale around early June. Then the general sale is in January.

2019

They haven’t gone on sale yet. Anyone who has tickets right now has rolled them over from 2020. Once they make an announcement about when the next festival will happen they’ll likely include information on how to get tickets, or will shortly after.

Lineup coming once payment plans are almost complete

Shit I needed to get mine. Hopefully they don’t book BTS or it’s gonna be a bloodbath

RTTDFTG: Michael Jackson

NOOO I WAS GONNA START MY PRESALE TODAY

I usually buy them 1-2 days before the festival and have gotten them pretty cheap! But like someone else said, it’s def a little risky

Have done stubhub before for w2, got it the week of w1 for like $250 before fees.

I bought once for 300 a few days before weekend one and it was pretty sick. The girl even came to my.job to drop them off.

A few days before weekend 1

the later you buy the cheaper the tickets get, it just depends on your risk tolerance. (except for years like Beychella anyways)

I don't see why anyone would let their tickets go for under face value if Coachella is going to openly offer refunds. The situation is unprecedented and there's no telling for sure, but I wouldn't wait for that refund email to come out to scout for cheap tickets.

Wait for the official statements regarding ticket statuses and if wristbands will be honored or reissued.

if you're planning to buy in the secondary market, best to wait until september at least.

if you want peace of mind, get on the Lyte waitlist to get a ticket officially instead of the secondary market. The waitlist would be the best bet as refunded tickets will probably go there. I doubt they'll do another On Sale since i think Coachella wants to keep that SOLD OUT image intact.

I think if you're open to going either weekend then just wait it out as long as possible. It's been a long time since both April weekends have stayed over face and I think October is going to draw lower demand as a whole

Make sure its refundable. A pandemic flu has a tendency to make a fall encore.

I would personally wait all together. What’s stopping someone form selling you a ticket then requesting a refund. I’m pretty sure Coachella will have another sale wait till that happens or at least till we have more information on what’s going to happen

I drove down from the Bay Area, we left around 6am got to Indio around 3pm and we were setting camp by 5pm. I suggest you arrive later in the day because security won’t be searching your car so extensively. Also we went down Jefferson and 52nd that helped us cut off so much waiting time.

I suggest arriving later so you’re not idling your car and waiting in the heat for hours. For all those that said they got in quickly, I literally have zero fucking idea how you did that. Even after being checked by security, there was still standstill traffic for an hour to get to my site.

I left from San Diego at 8PM, arrived in Coachella at 12AM. Got through security and to my campsite at 4:30am.

Do not go down 52nd that’s absolutely zero percent correct. Jefferson -> 54 -> Madison. Do not follow any online maps.

Im from AZ and we left 11:30am local time, made it to Indio about 4ish, killed time at Costco for last minute things and made it to our campsite at 6:00. Our total wait time from the neighboring area to our site was 1.5 hours, not bad really.

If security hasn’t changed, I’d say Thursday afternoon to evening works best. The morning is going to be a total mess.

I was planning on late Wednesday but wanna wait to see if Coachella says anything

Take Jefferson street to avenue 54, stuck to the left side and then take Madison street. Should get you inside the security check in less than an hour

Doing some quick math, I figure by 2027 or so, we will be given the next year's lineup as we leave the festival...

Recession Indicator

Why did they released so early this time

And even booking starting from tommorrow

They know that people only have so much money available for festival experiences and they want to get as much of that money as possibl.

Think of it this way - they've always announced and sold tickets LAST, after every other Festival. This means people have already bought tickets to other events, and many of those people are out of discretionary funds by the time Coachella announces and starts selling tickets.

That was fine when Coachella always sold out. But it's been foolish ever since they had trouble moving tickets.