Glastonbury Festival 2023 is just days away, with over 210,000 music fans expected to descend on Worthy Farm from June 21 to 26. This year, the likes of Arctic Monkeys, Guns N' Roses, Elton John, Lizzo, Lewis Capaldi and Lana Del Rey will feature in one of the most star studded line-ups in recent history.
Glastonbury Festival has released its updated car parking and driving routes to this year's event, in an attempt to minimise potential disruption to festival-goers and local village Pilton in Somerset. Traffic jams have been known to stretch for miles and take hours to clear, so it's important you know where to go and when.
Glastonbury Festival car parks open at 9pm on Tuesday, June 20, the night before the events kick-off. This allows festival-goers to arrive throughout the night before the rush the next day.
Festival organisers say: "The worst time to arrive by car is between 7am and 2pm on Wednesday. In recent years at peak times, the A39 queue to get into car parks took several hours, while it took less than an hour for those travelling on the A37."
To park at Glastonbury, you'll need a car parking pass, but if you didn't buy one online already, this can be done on the day for £60 for cash only. There are four main entrances for cars, depending upon where you are coming from.
It is important that you approach the site on the side that you want to park. Using local roads to get to the opposite side of the site causes delays, so use main roads that are well away from the site, organisers say.
Directions to Glastonbury Festival
It is important to note that using your satnav will not get you all the way to the festival site, but to the start of the signage. Organisers state the following as ways to get to the festival depending on where you are coming from:
• From south London: M3 then A303 and A37. (Sat Nav TA11 7DP).
• From Swindon: M4 then A350 onto the A361. (Sat Nav BA4 4LY).
• From the North East: A1 or M1, M25 to M3 (Junction 12), then A303 and A37. (Sat Nav TA11 7DP)
• From the Midlands: Preferably M40 and A34 to A303 and A37. (Sat Nav TA11 7DP)
• From the North West: M6, M5 to A39 (Junction 23) then A361. (Sat Nav BA6 9XE)
• From Wales: M4, M5 to A39 (as above) (Sat Nav BA6 9XE)
• For more local traffic using the A37 North or A361 East (Sat Nav BA4 4LY)
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For a larger version of the map, click here. Organisers say: "Anyone heading for the family campsite by the Acoustic field should take the Purple Route into the Festival (this is signed off the A37, follow the purple patches on the road signs)."
When to leave Glastonbury Festival
The worst times to leave by car are on Monday between 8am and 5pm, when there can be long delays of up to nine hours to leave the car parks. To get ahead of the traffic, aim to leave between 1am and 7am on Monday morning.
