Barcelona

Every June, Barcelona stops pretending to be a normal city and hands itself over to Sonar, a three-day electronic music and arts festival that has been quietly setting the global standard since 1994. The lineup reads like a fever dream curated by someone who actually knows what they are doing, and the venues split across day and night sites in ways that keep you moving, sweating, and completely disoriented in the best possible sense. If you are planning to be in Spain this summer and you have not locked this in yet, here is everything you need to know before you go.

Elrow is not a club night. It is a full-scale theatrical fever dream that happens to have a DJ booth in it, and if you have never been, nothing you have read or seen on Instagram actually prepares you for the real thing. Running out of its home base in Barcelona since 2010, this is the recurring party event that backpackers and serious ravers fly specifically into Spain to attend. Here is everything you need to know before you go in 2026.