Clockenflap 2026: dates, the day-by-day lineup and which ticket to buy

Illustration: Yum Cha Now, AI-generated. It sets the scene and is not a photograph of the venue.

Clockenflap 2026 runs Friday 4 to Sunday 6 December 2026 at the Central Harbourfront Event Space, 9 Lung Wo Road. The festival published its first lineup of 19 acts on 8 October, with every act already assigned to a day, and general ticket sales opened at 3pm HKT on 10 October through Ticketflap.

Dates, venue and the essentials

This is the same harbourfront site the festival has used for its recent editions, and the same ground the Hong Kong Wine & Dine Festival occupies at the end of October, so anyone who went to that will know the walk in.

Dates, prices, ages and the day-by-day lineup on this page were checked against the official Clockenflap info page and its 2026 lineup page, 12 October 2026.

The first lineup, day by day

Nineteen acts landed on 8 October, and unusually for a first announcement each one already has a day against its name. That makes the single-day decision a real one rather than a guess, because the three days are not interchangeable.

Which day should you buy if you only buy one?

On the lineup as it stands, the days sort themselves fairly neatly.

Friday is the youngest and the most left-field of the three. keshi and Malcolm Todd are the draw for anyone who found the festival through streaming rather than through record shops, and then Kim Gordon sits in the middle of that bill doing something entirely different. Friday is also the shortest day in practice, because it is a working day and the site opens later than at the weekend in most years, so it is the day where a late finish at the office costs you the most.

Saturday is the rock day, and the one most likely to sell out first. Hayley Williams and Queens of the Stone Age on the same bill is the single strongest pairing announced, with Sleaford Mods underneath them and Marcel Dettmann for anyone who wants to end the night somewhere darker. If you are buying one ticket for one person who likes guitars, this is it.

Sunday is the deepest and the quietest. It is also where most of the announced acts are, eight of the nineteen. slowdive, The Jesus And Mary Chain and Digable Planets is a bill for people who were buying records in the early nineties, HYUKOH brings the largest Korean draw of the weekend, and DOMi and JD BECK are the technical act of the festival. Sunday finishes earlier than the Saturday night and you have work the next morning, which is the honest trade.

For a broader look at what else is on this season, our round-up of music festivals in Hong Kong covers the rest of the calendar.

What tickets cost, and the three-day maths

The number worth doing before you buy anything: two adult single days cost HK$2,760, which is HK$580 more than the HK$2,180 three-day pass. There is no two-day ticket. So if there is any chance at all that you will want a second day, the three-day pass is already the cheaper purchase, and the third day comes free with it. The single day only makes sense for someone who is certain about one day and certain about not going back.

The same holds on the under-18 grid, and more sharply. Two under-18 single days are HK$1,960 against HK$1,680 for the under-18 three-day pass, a HK$280 gap. A family buying two adults and one teenager across the weekend is looking at HK$6,040 for three-day passes, which is the kind of total worth knowing before you open the checkout rather than after.

Eligible American Express cardmembers get 12% off all tickets until 2:59pm HKT on 10 November 2026, on the designated platforms only. On a three-day adult pass that is about HK$262. It is the only discount currently published, and the deadline is a month before the festival, so it is worth deciding inside that window rather than in late November.

Why you might want to wait

Nineteen acts is not a finished festival. Clockenflap's own page still describes the list as the first announcement, and in past years the bill has roughly doubled before December. That cuts two ways.

If you are buying a three-day pass, waiting gains you very little, because you will be there whichever day the remaining acts land on, and the published prices have no early-bird step left in them beyond the Amex window.

If you are buying a single day, you are the one taking the risk. You are committing to one of three days on roughly half a lineup, and the act you most want to see may well be announced for one of the other two. Nothing published says single-day tickets can be swapped between days. Unless Saturday's pairing or Sunday's eight acts alone justify the HK$1,380, the better move is to wait for the next announcement.

And the honest reason to skip it altogether: this is an outdoor, standing, three-stage festival on exposed reclaimed ground, and early December in Hong Kong can be cold after dark on the water. If what you actually want is to see one band properly, sitting down, in a room with a roof, then a single show at one of the city's live music venues will do that better and for a fraction of HK$1,380. Our guide to the season's concerts in Hong Kong has those.

Getting there, ages and entry

The site is at 9 Lung Wo Road on the Central waterfront, reachable on foot from Hong Kong, Central and Admiralty stations. Check the festival's own site for the entrance in use before you set off, because the harbourfront gates move between events on this ground.

On ages, two rules catch people out. There is a genuine under-18 price, and it is a saving of HK$500 on the three-day pass and HK$400 on a single day, which a surprising number of families miss and pay adult for. Separately, every attendee under 16 must be accompanied by a guardian aged over 18, so a group of fifteen-year-olds cannot go on their own however many tickets they hold. Children under three enter free and need no ticket.

Buy only through Ticketflap. It is the single authorised platform, which means a ticket bought on a resale site is not just a gamble on price, it is a gamble on getting in.

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