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10 of the best photos from Sziget Festival's fresh and ferocious 2025 edition
This year, Sziget hit a milestone 11 million total attendees since it began in 1993. As Budapest's most established music festival, it still felt fresh in 2025, with a slew of new updates at its 31st edition
For its 2025 edition, Sziget went bold. Celebrating its 31st edition, the Budapest-based festival switched up the formula, introducing a string of new stages, cutting-edge programming and an expanded nighttime offering. While last year marked three decades of the annual event, 2025 saw Sziget forgo nostalgia — though it did make time to celebrate its 11 millionth attendee, issuing a lifetime pass to one lucky 14-year-old festivalgoer.
Welcoming 416,000 guests to the leafy island of Óbudai-sziget along the Danube River in the North of Budapest, Sziget 2025 saw over 1,000 performances across six days. This year's line-up was typically bucket list-worthy, with crowds catching headline performances from Charli xcx, Chappell Roan, and Anyma. Meanwhile, the electronic offering was just as eye-watering, with The Blessed Madonna, I Hate Models, Partiboi69, Amelie Lens, Miss Monique and Armin van Buuren all getting the party started at this year's edition.
The biggest gear shift for 2025 was in Sziget's expanded nighttime offering with the Delta District, described as a "place where electronic music comes to live", with an area featuring three stages: The Yettel Colosseum, a forboding ampitheatre structure that can be seen all over the Sziget site, the Bolt Night Stage catering to big room EDM with its hefty lighting displays and cutting-edge production, and The Club, the more intimate stage of the three, designed for crowdmembers to lose themselves until the wee hours.
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The Delta District played host to some of Sziget 2025's standout sets, including an electrifying sonic voyage from French duo Justice, high-energy Eurodance from the one-and-only horsegiirl, a dreamy live set from Caribou, and trance euphoria from Armin van Buuren. “We have never started a Sziget with such anticipation as this year,” said Tamás Kádár, Sziget’s CEO. “I’m happy to report that the feedback has been very positive - the site changes worked well for Sziget and its visitors.”
To relive some of the action from Sziget 2025, we've compiled 10 of the best images across the festival's fresh and ferocious six days. Check them out below, and sign up for 2026 tickets here.
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