Ravers, get your dancing shoes on – Creamfields Festival is just around the corner. What began in 1998 as a humble one-day affair in Hampshire is now one of the UK’s biggest EDM parties of the year, and the 2025 edition is kicking off this week.
The four-day festival (now in Cheshire) sees heavy DNB, trance, techno and house music take over from morning til night. For 2025, Chase & Status are returning as headliners for the second year in a row, joined by the likes of Swedish House Mafia, David Guetta and many, many more.
More than 80,000 people are heading to the dance festival this year. If you’re one of them, you’ll probably want to know stuff like how to get there, what you can and can’t bring, and where to find your favourite acts. You’re in the right place – this is all the information you need ahead of Creamfields 2025.
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When is Creamfields 2025?
The EDM fest is happening from Thursday, August 21 to Sunday, August 24.
Where is Creamfields 2025?
It’s taking place at Daresbury Estate in Cheshire, which is roughly in the middle between Manchester and Liverpool.
Who are the headliners for Creamfields 2025?
Swedish House Mafia, Anyma, David Guetta, Martin Garrix and Chase & Status are topping the bill at Creamfields 2025. Other notable names this year include Fatboy Slim, Hardwell, Ewan McVicar, CamelPhat and Sonny Fodera.
What’s the Creamfields 2025 lineup and set times?
Here’s the full breakdown of where and when you’ll find every act performing at Creamfields this year.
Friday August 22
Arc
- 6pm-7pm Counterpart
- 7pm-8pm Arielle Free
- 8pm-9pm Sub Focus
- 9.30pm-11pm Chase & Status
APEX
- 3pm-4.30pm Gareth Wyn
- 4.30pm-6pm Franky Rizardo
- 6pm-7.30pm Mau P
- 7.30pm-9pm Vintage Culture
- 9pm-11pm FISHER
Steel Yard
- 3pm-4pm Beccs Vernon
- 4pm-5pm Rob Harnetty
- 5pm-6.30pm Cristoph
- 6.30pm-8pm John Summit
- 8pm-9.30pm Adam Beyer
- 9.30pm-11pm Eric Prydz
HALO
- 3pm-4.30pm Goosey
- 4.30pm-6pm ALISHA
- 6pm-7.30pm Rossi.
- 7.30pm-9pm Hot Since 82
- 9pm-11pm Jamie Jones
Teletch Arena
- 3pm-4pm Danielle Ciuro
- 4pm-5.30pm Alex Farell b2b SIKOTI
- 5.30pm-6.45pm Jazzy b2b Jowi
- 6.45pm-8pm Holy Priest
- 8pm-9.30pm Basswell b2b Onlynumbers
- 9.30pm-11pm Fantasm
Saturday August 23
Arc
- 2pm-2.45pm Anna Eager
- 2.45pm-3.45pm Ricco
- 3.45pm-5.15pm Ian Longo b2b Tommy Mc
- 5.15pm-6.45pm Third Party
- 6.45pm- 7.30pm Clementine Douglas
- 7.30pm-9pm MK
- 9pm-11pm Swedish House Mafia
APEX
- 2pm-3pm Andy Joyce
- 3pm-4pm Ellia Jaya
- 4pm-5.30pm Josh Baker
- 5.45pm-7pm Chris Stussy presents Linger (AV/DJ Set)
- 7pm-8.45pm SOSA
- 8.45pm-10.15pm Ben Hemsley
- 10.15pm-11.45pm Argy
- 11.45pm-1am Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike
- 1am-1.30am Counterpart
- 1.30am-2.30am Hardwell
- 2.30am-4am Beauz
Steel Yard
- 2pm-3pm Toriah
- 3pm-4pm Lau
- 4pm-5.30pm Pete Tong
- 5.30pm-7pm Eli Brown
- 7pm-8.30pm Dom Dolla
- 8.30pm-10pm Marco Carola
- 10pm-11.30pm CamelPhat
- 11.30pm-1am Amelie Lens
- 1am-2.30am Sara Landry
- 2.30am-4am Chris Stussy B2B Josh Baker
HALO
- 2pm-3.30pm Raphi
- 3.30pm-5pm Max Styler
- 5pm-6.30pm Solardo
- 6.30pm-8pm Patrick Topping
- 8pm-9.30pm TBA
- 9.30pm-11am Prospa
Teletch Arena
- 2pm-3.30pm Princess Elf Bar
- 3.30pm-5pm Novah
- 5pm-6.3pm Faster Horses b2b Morgan Seatree
- 6.30pm-7.30pm Kander
- 7.30pm-9pm Funk Tribu b2b Bad Boombox
- 9pm-10.30pm Interplanetary Criminal
- 10.30pm-12am KETTAMA
- 12am-1.30am Patrick Mason
- 1.30am-2.45am blk.
- 2.45am-4am Cloudy
The Forest
- 2pm-3.30pm Nautica
- 3.30-4.45pm jWave
- 4.45pm-6pm Obskür
- 6pm-8pm Gaskin b2b Locklead
- 8pm-9.15pm Paige Tomlinson
- 9.15pm-11pm Sidney Charles b2b Luke Dean
Sunday August 24
Arc
- 12.00pm - 12.45pm Dean Peet
- 12.45pm-1.30pm Ruby Richards
- 1.30pm-2.30pm Kaci-Lea Lynch
- 2.30pm-3.30pm Amelia Preston
- 3.30pm-5pm Jodie Harsh
- 5pm-7.30pm Oliver Heldens
- 7.30pm-9pm D.O.D
- 9.30-11pm David Guetta
APEX
- 12pm-1pm Lucia Cors
- 1pm-2pm Marsolo
- 2pm-3.30pm Max Dean
- 3.30pm-5pm Hannah Laing
- 5.50pm-8pm Martin Garrix
- 8pm-9.30pm Anyma
Steel Yard
- 12pm-12.45pm Maninuniform
- 12.45pm-1.30pm No End
- 1.30pm-2.45pm Rob McPartland
- 3pm-4.30pm Jazzy
- 4.30pm-6pm Danny Howard
- 6pm-7.30pm Duke Dumont
- 7.30pm - 9pm Gorgon City
- 9pm - 11pm Sonny Fodera
HALO
- 12pm-1.15pm Samantha Neal
- 1.15pm-2.30pm Scaramouche
- 2.30pm-3.30pm Matt Hibbert
- 3.30pm-5pm Villager
- 5pm-6.30pm Chloé Robinson
- 6.30pm-8pm salute
- 8pm-9.30pm Four Tet
- 9.30pm-11pm Ewan McVicar
Teletch Arena
- 12pm-2pm Deevey
- 2pm-3.30pm KTK
- 3.30pm-5.15pm I Hate Models
- 5.15pm-6.15pm horsegiirL
- 6.15pm-8pm Restricted
- 8pm-9.30pm Nico Moreno
- 9.30pm-11pm AZYR
The Forest
- 12pm-1.30pm Niva
- 1.30pm-3.30pm James Organ
- 3.30pm-4.30pm Andy Mac
- 4.30pm-6pm Franky Wah
- 6pm-7.30pm Boris Brejcha
- 7.30pm-9.30pm Layton Giordani
- 9.30pm-11pm East End Dubs presents CITE (Techno Set)
Can I still buy tickets?
You sure can. There are still two, three and four-day camping tickets for Creamfields 2025 up for grabs. They start from £240, not including the booking fee. You can also still get your hands on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday day ticket, starting from £75. Explore your options for last-minute tickets here.
How to get to Creamfields
Train
The nearest train stations to the Creamfields festival site are Runcorn Station, Warrington Central, Warrington Bank Quay and Liverpool Lime Street. Warrington, Liverpool and Manchester will all have shuttle buses running to and from the site all day and night. Runcorn won’t have any buses running to the site, only from the site upon leaving.
Car
Routes to the festival site will be clearly signposted when you get closer to Daresbury. Don’t trust your sat-nav system as there will be road closures in place. National Highways has warned of likely congestion along parts of the M56 and M6, so make sure you leave yourself plenty of time. For parking, you can buy a pass here.
Coach
Big Green Coach will be running trips to Creamfields from multiple cities across the UK, including Aberdeen, Birmingham, Coventry, Glasgow, Leicester, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Reading and Swansea. Book your place on a coach to Creamfields here.
Are there any banned items?
The following items are banned from both the camping site and the event arena:
- Aerosols, including deodrant
- Balloons
- Blowtorches
- Computer equipment
- Illegal drugs (possession, use, or sale)
- Disposable vapes
- Glass, including perfume, foundation bottles, aftershave and mirrors (small compact mirrors are acceptable)
- Sound system or portable speakers
- Selfie sticks
- Skateboards and rollerblades, hover-boards, scooters, bicycles, and
other personal motorised and non-motorised vehicles - Nitrous oxide
- New Psychoactive Substances
- Knives (including locking knives)
- Sound systems (likely referring to large, unofficial ones)
- Glass bottles (excluding make-up and perfume, but note no re-entry with any glass)
- Fireworks
- Explosives
- BBQs (disposable BBQs are permitted on the camping site)
- Smoke and gas canisters (other than small, disposable camping gas canisters within reasonable limits)
- Air horns/ megaphones
- Flares
- Radios/ walkie-talkies
- Profession audio or video recording equipment
- Weapons or potential weapons
- Laser devices
- Unofficial drones and UAVs
- Chinese lanterns
- Generators
- Unofficial hi-visibility clothing/tabards
- Animals (other than declared and approved assistance dogs)
- Clothing, garments or items which promote cultural appropriation
The following things should be left in your tent as they are banned from the main event arena
- Alcohol (for campers there’s a limit of 24 cans and one litre plastic bottle of spirit per person)
- Bags over A4
- Chairs/ stools/ inflatable loungers
- Camping equipment
- Cans
- Plastic or glass bottles of spirits
- Food
- Soft drinks (you can take in a 500ml sealed bottle of wate)
Weather forecast
- Thursday August 21: highs of 20C, lows of 11C. Sunny during the day turning to partly cloudy by the evening.
- Friday August 22: highs of 21C with lows of 14C. Sunny skies turning slightly cloudy in the evening.
- Saturday August 23: highs of 22C, lows of 14C.
- Sunday August 24: highs of 24C, lows of 15C.
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