Festivals near Lyon

In Lyon, festival season unfolds among Roman stones as much as in industrial wastelands. Les Nuits de Fourvière open proceedings in early June in the Roman theatre overlooking the city, with a deliberately eclectic line-up — rock, chanson, classical, dance and contemporary music. Thirty kilometres south, Jazz à Vienne fills another ancient amphitheatre all summer and ranks among Europe's great jazz gatherings.

Around them, the metropolis and the Monts du Lyonnais line up open-air events: Printemps de Pérouges, brass bands, emerging stages and riverside nights along the Rhône. From jazz to rock to marching brass, the area never goes quiet in summer. FestT computes your FestiScore for each line-up and shows you, genre by genre, which ones resonate with your liked artists — dates, venues and ticketing kept up to date.