The Glastonbury Festival typically takes place in June. Its five-day programme is usually held in the second half of the month, running from Wednesday through Sunday at Worthy Farm near Pilton in Somerset, England.
June is not an absolute rule every year, but it is the festival’s normal month. The event is held in most summers, with occasional fallow years when the festival pauses to allow the land at Worthy Farm to recover. The 2026 festival, for example, is a planned fallow year, with the next edition scheduled for 2027.
Some dates can appear to stretch into late June or, depending on the calendar, touch the end of the month. That is why “June” is the fair canonical answer rather than a particular week. The festival’s early history had different timings: the first event, then called the Pilton Festival, took place in September 1970, while the 1971 Glastonbury Fayre was held in September.
Modern Glastonbury is therefore strongly associated with late June, even though its earliest editions were not.