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Electronic music is the best excuse to travel there is. From a sunrise trance set on a Dutch beach to a psytrance week in the Hungarian hills, a superclub night in Ibiza to a water-soaked EDM festival in Bangkok — this is your map to the world’s best electronic music trips in 2026, sorted by scene. Each links to a full travel guide with flights, where to stay near the venue, and a realistic budget.
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Trance & psytrance
- Luminosity Beach Festival — the world’s leading uplifting-trance festival, on the beach near Amsterdam (June).
- A State of Trance (ASOT) — Armin van Buuren’s flagship trance event in Utrecht.
- Dreamstate SoCal — North America’s biggest trance festival, Long Beach (November).
- Transmission — the legendary big-room trance production at Prague’s O2 Arena.
- Ozora Festival — the spiritual home of psytrance, in the Hungarian countryside (late July).
- Goa — where psytrance and beach parties were born.
Big EDM festivals — Europe
- Tomorrowland — the most famous EDM festival on Earth, Boom, Belgium (two July weekends).
- Ultra Europe — three days on the Adriatic in Split, Croatia (July).
- Parookaville — Germany’s giant “festival city” EDM weekend.
- Creamfields — the UK’s flagship dance festival.
- Balaton Sound — Europe’s biggest open-air lakeside electronic festival, Hungary.
- Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) — the world’s biggest electronic conference + club marathon (October).
EDM in the Americas
- EDC Las Vegas — the neon-soaked giant under the Vegas sky (May).
- Ultra Music Festival, Miami — the season opener at Bayfront Park (March).
- EDC Mexico — EDC’s huge Mexico City edition (February).
- Tomorrowland Brasil — the South American edition of the legend.
- Tulum — jungle-and-cenote electronic season (Zamna, Day Zero) over Dec–Jan.
Asia & water festivals
- S2O Songkran, Bangkok — the original water + EDM festival (April).
- S2O Korea, Seoul — Korea’s biggest water-EDM party (July).
- Wonderfruit — Thailand’s arts-and-music festival near Pattaya (December).
Island clubbing & beach clubs
- Ibiza nightlife — the global capital of clubbing. Or slow it down with our Ibiza sunset & chillout guide.
- Bali — clifftop beach clubs (Savaya, Potato Head, FINNS).
- Mykonos — Greece’s glossy beach-club island.
- Berlin — the techno capital, clubs every weekend of the year.
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