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When do Notting Hill Carnival tickets go on sale?

Notting Hill Carnival has not announced its next on-sale date, and nor has anyone else: there is no date to give you yet. We check the official pages every night and this page changes the day one appears.

Checked 9 September 2026

The official Notting Hill Carnival ticket page is the only place the date is ever announced first. Everything below is our reading of how booking there works.

How booking for Notting Hill Carnival works

Carnival itself is free and needs no ticket, which is the thing most searches are really asking. What is ticketed is the surrounding programme: Panorama, the steel band competition, and a number of paid parties and sound-system events, each sold by its own organiser at its own time.

Also searched as: Carnival.