🎤Lineup
✈️How to get to Headbangers Open Air
Planning your trip to Headbangers Open Air? Here's how to get there by plane, train or car, and plan your route to the festival site.
- Nearest airport: Hamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM), about 28 km from the venue.
- Allow about 39 min by car from the airport to the site.
- By train, head for Hamburg or the nearest major station, then finish by bus, shuttle or taxi to the site.
- By car, plan for on-site parking and expect heavy traffic around the venue on festival days.
🌤️Headbangers Open Air 2026 weather
Weather in Headbangers Open Air in July 2026?
Actual weather at the 2026 edition
From July 23 to July 25, 2026: up to 25°, low of 12°, 1.4 mm of rain in total.
- Thu, Jul 23Overcast19° / 13° 0 mm
- Fri, Jul 24Light drizzle19° / 12° 0.2 mm
- Sat, Jul 25Drizzle25° / 13° 1.2 mm
Day-by-day observed readings at the festival site (Open-Meteo archive).
Typical weather
Chance of rain: about 67% of days
| 2025 | Rain | 22° / 16° | 2 rainy days |
| 2024 | Overcast | 22° / 13° | 1 rainy day |
| 2023 | Light rain | 19° / 12° | 3 rainy days |
Based on the last 3 years over the same period.
Hour by hour
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Same week in 2025: Thu July 24 → Sat July 26 (days aligned on the edition's weekdays).
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📋About
Headbangers Open Air 2026: extreme metal in Germany
Headbangers Open Air is an extreme metal festival held in Germany. Over three days, the festival brings together 22 artists celebrating death metal, black metal and thrash metal in a radical yet friendly atmosphere.
The 2026 edition features underground acts and extreme metal legends. The festival spans brutal death metal, melodic death metal, doom metal and grindcore in an intense and uncompromising programme.
The bill also ventures into folk metal, viking metal, pagan metal and sludge metal. Groove metal, stoner metal and post-metal round out a lineup drawing heavy music fans.
From July 23 to 25, 2026, experience three days of extreme metal. Explore the lineup and book your tickets.
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