Vans Warped Tour 2026: Festival dates, locations, and artist reveals
After a successful revival in 2025, Vans Warped Tour is coming back this year with announced dates and locations for the US and two international shows! As expected from last year, Orlando, Long Beach, and Washington DC will again play host to the festival, but this year Warped Tour will cross borders and hit Mexico City and Montreal — with all location hosting the two-day event. Here are your festival dates!
In partnership with Insomniac, the world-class experience creators behind some of the largest music festivals on the planet, Warped Tour is reimagined for today, honoring its legacy while evolving the format, energy, and community for a new generation of fans.
In this new era of Warped Tour, organizers have partnered with Insomniac, which creates world-class experience in creating some of the biggest festivals. The 2026 Warped Tour will be a crucial year in celebrating the nostalgia of what the festival used to be, while showcasing its evolution for future years and enlightening a new fanbase to experience it in all its glory.
Fans can expect each two-day festival to showcase over 100 bands and cover genres such as Emo, Punk-Pop, Rock, Alternative, and more such, as well as appearances from world class skateboarders and action-sport athletes. Warped Tour is also known for having their hand in connecting attendees with like-minded people, introducing fans to nonprofits and companies making a positive impact in the world. Last year’s “Charity Circle” hosted a food drive that collected 134,000 pounds of canned goods, saw fans and guest donations well over $100,000, with $200,000 alone donated to nonprofit organizations.
To build anticipation for the 2026 festival season, the Vans Warped Tour showcased a first look and during the month of February is announcing more and more artists on their social platforms. Doing so allows Warped Tour to channel the vibe of legacy Warped acts, while still showcasing new and lesser-known artists at their festivals. Last year’s “30-ish days of Warped” in 2025 was wildly successful that left the platforms with 3.8 billion impressions and millions of fans engaged on their posts. We can expect the full line-ups to be announced in mid-March with artists listed alphabetically. Here are the festivals “Rules of Engagement” for this year’s lineup announcments!
HISTORY
The history of the Vans Warped Tour, which was originally more of a traveling festival, has been well documented over the years. Kevin Lyman in 1995 decided to make an alternative rock festival with a heavy focus on punk rock. Over the years it grew more and more, which eventually earned it the title of the largest touring festival in North America. And in the last 30-years, Warped Tour became a hallmark for many music fans to attend each summer. Shaping generations while having a community driven platform all led the festival to hold a special place in people’s hearts.
Warped Tour is renowned elevate the trajectory of many bands and alumni of the tour includes acts such as Yellowcard, Motionless In White, Black Veil Brides, Blink-182, Eminem, and many more, all while giving fans incredibly exposure to new music at an affordable price. The tour was an all day event with genre-fluid lineups and an environment that allowed fans to buy merch literally from the artist they just watched.
Vans Warped Tour remains committed to affordable pricing for fans with tickets starting at $149.98, including processing fees, and are currently available HERE.
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