Glastonbury may take place at the height of the British summer, but many of the most iconic images from the festival are a chaos of knee-deep mud and wellies.
This year’s event is taking place from Wednesday 26 June to Sunday 30 June, with the event returning after a “fallow year” gave Worthy Farm a hard-earned break from the mayhem.
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As always, the punters who got lucky in the frenzied stampede for Glastonbury tickets will be obsessively checking the weather forecast as the festival approaches – here are all the latest details.
Latest Glastonbury weather forecast
With Glastonbury looming large at the end of this week, the Met Office forecast offers some cause for hope.
The 135,000 festival-goers set to descend on Worthy Farm will be optimistic at the prospect of the rainy, thundery conditions in the region at the start of the week drifting away by Wednesday.
Then, the forecaster predicts, things start looking up: “A few thundery showers possible on Wednesday, otherwise dry with plenty of sunshine and brisk and gusty easterly winds.
“Becoming hot in places by Thursday. Remaining warm overnight too.”
And by hot, they mean hot – temperatures of 25C are predicted for sunny Thursday, before reaching 26C on Friday and 27C on Saturday.
Sunday is set to be cooler, but blessedly dry, with the festival culminating with temperatures of 20C with some sun breaking through overcast conditions.
The BBC’s weather forecast, which is generated by MeteoGroup, is similarly positive, with Thursday, Friday and Saturday all hovering around 25C before a cooler Sunday. The sole major difference in their prediction is that only Thursday is forecast to enjoy unbroken sunshine.
Rounding off the universal optimism is the forecast from Accuweather, although the US-based service predicts that Friday will be the sunniest day of the festival.
This year’s festival-goers will be desperate to avoid the conditions that blighted Glastonbury 2005 (Getty Images)
The festival line-up
As always, the the build-up to this year’s event has been characterised by the usual frenzied speculation around the acts involved, with this year’s marquee performers including Stormzy, Kylie Minogue, The Killers and Janet Jackson.
You can find out all the acts gracing the main stages here, or even take in the full, mammoth list on the festival’s website, but here are the performance times for the festival’s two biggest stages across all three days:
Pyramid Stage
Friday
- Stormzy 22:15 – 23:45
- George Ezra 20:15 – 21:15
- Ms. Lauryn Hill 18:00 – 19:15
- Bastille 16:15 – 17:15
- Sheryl Crow 14:30 – 15:30
- Tom Odell 13:15 – 14:00
- Bjorn Again 11:45 – 12:45
Saturday
- The Killers 21:45 – 23:45
- Liam Gallagher 19:15 – 20:30
- Janet Jackson 17:45 – 18:35
- Hozier 16:00 – 17:00
- Anne-Marie 14:40 – 15:30
- Carrie Underwood 13:15 – 14:15
- The Proclaimers 11:45 – 12:45
Sunday
- The Cure 21:30 – 23:30
- Vampire Weekend 19:30 – 20:30
- Miley Cyrus 17:45 – 18:45
- Kylie 15:45 – 17:00
- Years & Years 13:45 – 14:45
- Mavis Staples 12:15 – 13:05
- Langa Methodist Church Choir 11:00 – 11:45
Other Stage
Friday
- Tame Impala 22:15 – 23:45
- Two Door Cinema Club 20:15 – 21:15
- Snow Patrol 18:30 – 19:30
- The Lumineers 17:00 – 18:00
- Mac Demarco 15:30 – 16:30
- The Wombats 14:00 – 15:00
- Mø 12:30 – 13:30
- The Vaccines 11:00 – 12:00
Saturday
- The Chemical Brothers 22:15 – 23:45
- Courteeners 20:45 – 21:30
- Sigrid 19:00 – 20:00
- Johnny Marr 17:30 – 18:30
- Lewis Capaldi 16:00 – 17:00
- Maggie Rogers 14:30 – 15:30
- Fantastic Negrito 13:00 – 14:00
- The Cat Empire 11:30 – 12:30
Sunday
- Christine And The Queens 22:00 – 23:15
- Dave 20:15 – 21:15
- Billie Eilish 18:45 – 19:45
- Loyle Carner 17:15 – 18:15
- Bring Me The Horizon 15:45 – 16:45
- Babymetal 14:35 – 15:15
- Slaves 13:00 – 14:00
- Circa Waves 11:50 – 12:30
- Sk Shlomo 11:00 – 11:25
