Sziget plots 2026 programme after return to independence

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News By Hanna Ellington | 9 December 2025

The Beaches at Sziget 2025
The Beaches at Sziget 2025 © Sziget

Hungary’s Sziget Festival has plotted its 2026 programme, a month after the festival announced it would revert to independent leadership. Florence + The Machine, Lewis Capaldi, Sombr, and Twenty One Pilots are the first announced headliners for the 11-15 August festival on Budapest’s Óbuda Island.

Hungary’s Sziget Festival has plotted its 2026 programme, a month after the festival announced it would revert to independent leadership.

Florence + The Machine, Lewis Capaldi, Sombr, and Twenty One Pilots are the first announced…

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