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 has not 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 EUR, 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 EUR in its final VIP tiers, and SonarPass, weekend tickets and Sonar Kids all sold out before the festival.

Day tickets are the release valve, but they do not exist yet: they historically arrive after the lineup lands, at 49 to 99 EUR in the 2026 cycle, and they were the only products still available at the end. So the group decision today is really one question: commit at 155 EUR 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.
• Resale and transfer are banned by default, with name changes only via the ticketing agent and possibly paid - buy for real people.
• 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, and keep or cancel with months of margin.

Outside Flex, the rules are strict: standard tickets are non-refundable, resale or transfer without authorisation can void a ticket, and wristbands are personal and non-transferable at the door. There is no official resale marketplace, so the group's 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 end after sunrise, served by the L9 Sud and FGC once they wake up.

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

None of this is touting or gaming anything. The presale is open to anyone who registers, and the refund window is official policy. The difference is a group that moved while the price was kind and wrote the deadlines down.

TicketSquad gives a Sonar squad one home for the whole cycle: who is in at which tier, Flex status per person, account emails, budget ceilings, the 1 March cancellation deadline, day-ticket hopefuls waiting on the lineup, 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.