In the City of Dreams with breathtaking stage designs and 300 acts, including global electronic music luminaries like Armin van Buuren, Hardwell, Indira Paganotto, Steve Aoki, Timmy Trumpet, Sara Landry and W&W, the aura of the festival was defined by their fans or shall we say citizens of Parookaville.

Each day, 75,000 Citizens bathed in sunshine revelled peacefully through a relaxed long weekend of celebratory music. In addition to top acts, the City of Dreams’ many features such as Bermuda Square, the Warsteiner Basilica and Church, the jail, the new Gerolsteiner fire extinguisher and the City Forest kept them engaged and entertained throughout. Parookaville and the ING Bank also introduced cashless payment to everyone’s delight.

Desert Valley transported the Citizens back in time to 2015, replacing the accustomed Desert Valley stage this year with the Memory Stage: PAROOKAVILLE’s very first mainstage from way back in 2015!


The second-biggest stage at the festival returned this year in a brand-new design. It was christened “New Bill’s Factory” on Friday with an appropriately enthusiastic ceremony. On Saturday, following the set by the audience favourite Steve Aoki on the 190-metre wide Victorian-style Mainstage, the expanded PAROOKAVILLE ceremony continued with an astonishing lighting and fireworks show. On Sunday, Citizens were treated to the crowning finale with the “10 Years Anniversary Closing Ceremony” presented by CUPRA. The largest festival drone show of the year lit up the night sky with 800 drones, highlighting special scenes and impressions from ten years of the City of Dreams.

“From the outside, it may well just look like a few young people in zany outfits partying hard. And that’s also true. But there’s also an entirely different dimension, because people can easily forget that those other people enjoying a great time at Parookaville are our future CEOs, lawyers and politicians. These are the people who will be running Germany in 10 or 20 years. And they will never forget that they were at Parookaville in 2025. Why do I say that? Because I believe this is a cultural movement. It’s not just a festival with loud music and crowds of people in wacky clothes. It’s a gathering. It’s people looking for connection.” – Armin van Buuren.

With the city gates barely closed and the camping sites empty once again, we now look ahead to 2026 and for all the fans who can already hardly wait for next year’s festival, here’s the opportunity to get your hands on the pre-sale but very limted tickets for PAROOKAVILLE 2026.

PAROOKAVILLE 2026 is set for July 17th to 19th, 2026.

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