Top 10 Best Music Festivals in the World

The most photographed festival on earth, held in the Indio desert over two weekends each April — a cultural moment as much as a musical one.

The world's greatest electronic dance music festival transforms a Belgian park into a fantasy kingdom, selling out its 400,000 tickets in minutes each year.

Perry Farrell's touring festival turned permanent Chicago institution packs Grant Park with 100,000+ fans across eight stages for four days each summer.

Miami's waterfront EDM extravaganza kicks off the festival season each March, drawing the world's biggest DJs and 165,000 electronic music fans.

The UK's twin rock and indie festivals run simultaneously in Reading and Leeds every August Bank Holiday, a rite of passage for British music fans.

Barcelona's boutique-turned-blockbuster festival is the critics' choice — impeccably curated indie, electronic, and alternative lineups against a Mediterranean backdrop.

South by Southwest is the world's most important music discovery event — 2,000 acts across 100 venues in a single week every March in Austin.

More art experiment than music festival, Burning Man's radical self-reliance ethos and mind-bending installations make it a singular week-long experience.

Founded in 1967 on the shores of Lake Geneva, Montreux has hosted everyone from Miles Davis to Prince — an elegant, world-class festival with a peerless archive.

The most photographed festival on earth, held in the Indio desert over two weekends each April — a cultural moment as much as a musical one.

The world's greatest electronic dance music festival transforms a Belgian park into a fantasy kingdom, selling out its 400,000 tickets in minutes each year.

Perry Farrell's touring festival turned permanent Chicago institution packs Grant Park with 100,000+ fans across eight stages for four days each summer.

Miami's waterfront EDM extravaganza kicks off the festival season each March, drawing the world's biggest DJs and 165,000 electronic music fans.

The UK's twin rock and indie festivals run simultaneously in Reading and Leeds every August Bank Holiday, a rite of passage for British music fans.

Barcelona's boutique-turned-blockbuster festival is the critics' choice — impeccably curated indie, electronic, and alternative lineups against a Mediterranean backdrop.

South by Southwest is the world's most important music discovery event — 2,000 acts across 100 venues in a single week every March in Austin.

More art experiment than music festival, Burning Man's radical self-reliance ethos and mind-bending installations make it a singular week-long experience.

Founded in 1967 on the shores of Lake Geneva, Montreux has hosted everyone from Miles Davis to Prince — an elegant, world-class festival with a peerless archive.