Outside Lands has always felt like a very specific San Francisco magic trick: a massive, multi-genre festival that still somehow plays like a neighborhood hangout—if your neighborhood had fog, eucalyptus, and a headliner schedule built for group texts. For 2026, the festival is leaning hard into that “everything at once” identity, unveiling a lineup topped by Charli XCX, RÜFÜS DU SOL, and The Strokes, with The xx also billed high on the poster.
Outside Lands returns to Golden Gate Park on August 7–9, 2026 (its 18th edition), and the undercard reads like a choose-your-own-adventure where every path ends with you missing three acts you swear you were going to see.
Charli’s placement feels like a statement: pure pop velocity at the top of a historically guitar-friendly festival, with the kind of fanbase that will happily sprint across the park for a perfect angle. Across the weekend, Outside Lands balances that energy with legacy and mood—The Strokes bringing the big-room singalongs, The xx delivering the sleek, late-night emotional weather, and RÜFÜS anchoring the electronic side with headliner-scale atmosphere.
The lineup’s depth is the point. You’ve got Turnstile in the mix—still the rare band that can translate hardcore urgency into festival euphoria—plus Wet Leg, Geese, Djo, Empire of the Sun, Labrinth, Dijon, Ethel Cain, and Death Cab for Cutie, who are slated to play an early-afternoon set and an evening set (a fun scheduling wrinkle that screams “plan your day around it”).
On the hip-hop and R&B side, the bill pulls in names like Baby Keem, Clipse, GloRilla, Mariah the Scientist, and more—basically daring you to accept that you cannot, in fact, be in two places at once.
Ticketing for 2026 is structured around presale windows:
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Loyalty Presale: begins Tue, March 3 at 12pm PT (for eligible past purchasers / wristband registrants, code required)
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Ranger Presale: begins Wed, March 4 at 12pm PT
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Chase Presale: available to Chase cardholders starting Tue, March 3 at 12pm PT through Thu, March 5 at 11:45am PT
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GA pricing: the festival lists 3-day GA starting at $509 all-in (noted as $445 + fees)
Pass types include GA, GA+, VIP, and Golden Gate Club options.
If you’re planning the logistics now (you should), the fest also outlines roundtrip shuttle service departing from Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, with strong nudges toward public transit connections.
