How to get Sonar tickets with your group

Sonar has been Barcelona's festival of "advanced music" since 1994: a three-day meeting of electronic music, digital art and technology that treats the dance floor as culture rather than escapism. The 2027 edition - the 34th - runs 17 to 19 June, and Sonar Week 2026 pulled together more than 150,000 people across the festival, city shows and the Sonar+D congress of 200+ speakers.

The format changed shape in 2026: after decades split between a daytime site at Montjuic and nights at Fira Gran Via, the whole festival unified at Gran Via in L'Hospitalet - six stages, afternoons rolling into 07:00 finishes on Friday and Saturday, with Sonar+D running daytime in the city. The 2027 venue hasn't been formally announced yet, so treat Gran Via as the working assumption and check the official site before booking anything around it.

The 2027 presale opened on 22 June 2026 and is live now: SonarPass at €155, VIP at €270, and the +D variants at €170 and €295 - registration-gated on sonar.es with fulfilment through Kaboodle, and officially described as a limited allocation. Sonar's own guidance is blunt: prices increase progressively as the festival approaches. Last cycle told the story - the full pass that started cheap ended above €300 in its final VIP tiers, and SonarPass, weekend tickets and Sonar Kids all sold out before the festival.

Day tickets are the release valve, and they don't exist yet. Historically they arrive once the lineup lands, priced at €49 to €99 in the 2026 cycle, and they were the only products still available by the end. Which reduces today's group decision to one question. Commit at €155 now, or plan to pay more later for less choice.

• The presale allocation is limited and unannounced - it can close or step up without a published date.
• Every price move is upward: the 2026 cycle roughly doubled from early tiers to the final ones.
• Reselling outside authorised channels is banned and can void the ticket. Giving one to a friend means in-app transfer, which locks about 24 hours before doors.
• The festival is 18+, and day tickets for specific nights do not exist until the lineup reveal months from now.

The sharpest new fact in the Sonar system is the Flex option: presale buyers can cancel until 1 March 2027 for a full refund, no questions asked. For a group, that changes the maths of buying blind. The classic objection to early passes - "what if the lineup is not for me?" - now has an official answer. Buy at today's tier, see the lineup when it lands, then keep or cancel with months of margin.

Outside Flex the rules are strict. Standard tickets are non-refundable, selling outside authorised channels can void a ticket outright, and there's no official resale marketplace to fall back on. Wristbands are personal and non-transferable once you're through the door.

Handing a ticket to a friend is a different matter entirely, and it's supported. Recent editions sold through DICE, whose Sónar FAQ documents in-app transfer to a chosen recipient - they need a DICE account, and you send it to their phone number. That closes when the entry QR activates, roughly 24 hours before doors. Worth confirming when 2027 tickets go on sale, since that evidence comes from the 2025 and 2026 cycles and Sónar hasn't yet confirmed DICE as the 2027 agent.

So the group's real protection is the one built into the purchase, which makes choosing Flex deliberately, per person, part of the buying decision rather than an afterthought.

Sonar's group problem is alignment under a rising price, softened by the refund window. The clean method: everyone registers on sonar.es now, the group agrees who is certain and who is Flex-curious, buyers take the presale tier in one batch, and the calendar gets one shared entry - the 1 March cancellation deadline - so nobody discovers it in April.

Everything after the purchase is calendar discipline and city logistics. The lineup reveal that triggers day tickets. The 1 March Flex deadline. And a late-night travel plan for a venue whose Friday and Saturday sessions historically run past sunrise, served by the L9 Sud and the FGC once they wake up.

The version of Sónar worth having is the one where your group bought at the kind tier, the Flex deadline came and went with everyone still in, and June turns into three days of wandering between a rooftop talk, a label showcase and a 05:00 techno hall with nothing left to decide.

TicketSquad gives a Sonar squad one home for the whole cycle. Who is in at which tier. Each person's Flex status. The account emails and the budget ceilings. That 1 March cancellation deadline. Who is waiting on the lineup for a day ticket. And the late-night route back to the beds everyone booked.

For a festival that rewards early commitment and punishes forgotten deadlines, a shared plan is the difference between the kind tier and the expensive one.