AIF releases first comprehensive Festival Forecast

The Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) has released the 2025 edition of its Festival Forecast, which includes the first full count of the UK’s festival sector. AIF has identified 592 music festivals in the UK in 2025, comprising 360 greenfield festivals and 232 single-venue or multi-venue festivals.

Of that total, AIF says that four are major festivals with a capacity of 80,000+, seven are ‘large’ (cap. 50,000 – 79,999), 33 are ‘medium’ (20,000 – 49,999), 334 are ‘small’ (1,000 – 19,999) and 214 are ‘micro’ (less than 1,000).

The total number of festivals in the UK has fallen…

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