Festival & event · California, USA

Coachella

Coachella's genius is geography: the festival sits in a palm-fringed desert valley twenty minutes from Palm Springs, so the holiday builds itself — mid-century architecture, taco crawls and pool time by day, headliners under floodlit mountains by night.

Best forNightlife
Approx. flying time~0h 50m from Los Angeles
Nearest airportPalm Springs (PSP)

Takes place in Coachella, California, USA — nearest airport Palm Springs (PSP), about 35km away.

The festival

It's as much fashion week as gig, which is half the anthropology. Go for the second April weekend, when tickets and villa rentals run cheaper, and pay for the shuttle pass; festival car parks at 1am break spirits.

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When to go

Daytime highs run from about 20°C in January to 44°C in July. Driest April to July and October and November; wettest in March, with rain on about 5 days.

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August42° · rain 2 daysHot and dry.

Monthly figures averaged from daily records for 2020–2024 at this location (ERA5 reanalysis). Highlighted months are warm and mostly dry — October to April.

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Flights

Los Angeles Coachella, California, USA

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