Festivals near Las Vegas

In the heart of the Mojave desert, where the neon of the Strip never goes dark, Las Vegas has built a festival scene as oversized as the city itself. The event that defines the town is EDC Las Vegas: every May, the Las Vegas Motor Speedway turns into an open-air electronic cathedral where hundreds of thousands of fans dance from sunset to sunrise beneath towering stages. Orbiting around it is the whole of EDC Week — a full week of club nights, pool parties and afterparties along the Strip that crowns Sin City the world capital of EDM for one electric spring.

But Vegas is far more than bass drops: the city thrives on the same eclecticism it sells, from air-conditioned arenas to legendary resorts. Each September the iHeartRadio Festival gathers the biggest names in pop and American showmanship under one roof, while Sick New World revives 2000s nu-metal and alt-rock on the Festival Grounds, and the Big Blues Bender brings its gritty guitars to a downtown hotel. FestT computes your FestiScore — how closely a line-up matches your favourite artists — and keeps dates, headliners and ticketing up to date so you can find your way through it all.