Wonderfruit 2026

What Wonderfruit is, and who runs it

Wonderfruit is a music, art and food festival held each December at The Fields, part of Siam Country Club in Pattaya. On its Ticketmelon page, the organiser bills it as "99+ hours of music, art, food, wellness, nature and more". The organiser counts 26 named venues on site, among them The Quarry, Forbidden Fruit, Forest Stage, Creature Stage, Solar Village, Molam World, Enfold and Baan Bardo. Its FAQ promises "24 hours of programming every day", and adds: "It's not at all venues but there is always something on somewhere."

The company behind it is Scratch First Co., Ltd., named in the organiser's terms, and the organiser account that publishes the event on Ticketmelon. The organiser's Wonderpost names Pranitan "Pete" Phornprapha as the founder, and the Thai musician Montonn "Jay" Jira as his co-founder. Of The Fields, the organiser writes "Since 2014". Time Out Asia dates the first festival to December 2014.

Tickets: what they cost and who takes the money

You pay Ticketmelon. On the festival's page there, the organiser calls it "the sole official ticketing platform for Wonderfruit 2026". You start on the organiser's ticket page. Its "Add to Bag" buttons fill the organiser's own bag, which passes you on to ticketmelon.com to pay.

The September and October rounds are sold out. The November Sale is limited and first come, first served, and the organiser's waitlist for it was due to close on Monday 2 November. On 24 October 2026 the organiser's ticket page had the Sunday, Teen and Dog Passes on sale, and the 5-Day Full Pass and the Weekend Pass showed "Join the waitlist". Ticketmelon's own page listed no tiers that day. Every pass and its price, the passes you apply for, and the rules on refunds and resale are on the tickets page.

Dates and gate times

The festival runs for five days, from Thursday afternoon to Monday morning. Ticketmelon's page gives the span as "03 December 2026, 16:00 - 07 December 2026, 12:00". The organiser's FAQ, read 24 October 2026, sets the gates:

• Thursday 3 December: gates open at 16:00, last entry at midnight
• Friday 4 to Sunday 6 December: gates open at 08:00, last entry at midnight
• Monday 7 December: the last morning. The Sunday Pass runs to Monday sunrise. Camping and cabins check out at 12:00.

Between midnight and 08:00 nobody is let back in. That matters most on the last night. If you leave after midnight on Sunday 6 December, you cannot come back in on Monday 7. The organiser adds that the times may change.

Line-up and programme

The organiser announced its first acts on 1 September 2026. On 24 October 2026 its Directory, headed "FIRST RELEASE", listed 136 music acts, 110 of them with a day and a time. The FAQ still says the full schedule comes "later in the year" on the Wonder App. So the Directory's times are a first release, not the final timetable.

The release of 1 September named, in this order, Tangerine Dream, Eli Keszler, Orphx, ITSU & ARS, Jesse You, JakoJako, Loyboy, Gerd Janson, Hamdi Ryder, Omoloko and ffan. After them came Faustus, Nubya Garcia, Jane Fitz, Nicolas Lutz, Sweely, DOTT, Shanka Tribe, DJ Python, Genderfunk and the Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band. The Directory carries names the release did not, among them Nightmares on Wax, Marcel Dettmann, Mano Le Tough, Jim O'Rourke & Eiko Ishibashi, Phum Viphurit, Kuniyuki (Live) and Howie Lee.

The Directory dates each slot by the day it starts. So Tangerine Dream's "Sat 5 Dec 00:00" falls in the small hours after Friday night. A Weekend Pass, which lets you in from 08:00 on Saturday, does not cover it, and Friday's last entry is at midnight. Marcel Dettmann's Monday slot is Sunday night, inside a Sunday Pass that runs to Monday sunrise. It is the kind of detail otherwise learnt at the gate.

A few slots as the Directory's profiles print them:

• Nightmares on Wax: Friday 4 December, 18:00–21:00, Forbidden Fruit
• Tangerine Dream: Saturday 5 December, 00:00–01:00, Creature Stage
• Nubya Garcia: Saturday 5 December, 21:30–22:30, Creature Stage
• DJ Python: Sunday 6 December, 21:30–23:30, The Quarry
• Marcel Dettmann: Monday 7 December, 00:00–03:00, Baan Bardo

The organiser's Root Music list includes Sansae, Thee Marloes, Jarb Cat, Sombat Simla and Rattanakosin Breakin' Crew. Solar Village has Jason Kendig, Alex Albrecht, Pam Anantr and AWARË among its names.

Beyond the music, the programme page announces From Sound to Screen, Nick Dwyer's films with live music over three evenings. It also announces Sonic Minds by MSCTY_Studio, with May-T, Sunju Hargun and Quantum Aria (Carl Stone & Akaihirume). Rituals & Ceremonies takes in an Opening Ritual and a Closing Ceremony with Tulku Ngawang, and Dhyana, curated by Black Turtle. There are also the Open Kitchen, Wonder Kitchen's chef's tables, 15 named art installations, and Unconditional Space under the title "Tropicality: New Beginnings". The wellness theme is "Rooted in the Inner Axis". The organiser's programme page

Where it is and how to get there

The organiser gives the address in one line: "The Fields at Siam Country Club, Chonburi, Thailand". The Fields are part of Siam Country Club in Pattaya, Chonburi province. The organiser's FAQ links a Google Maps point at 12.9027695, 100.9998528. Open in maps The organiser's venues page

On 24 October 2026 the festival's own shuttles and parking were still marked "Coming soon". Two partner hotels in Na Jomtien and Pattaya have an official shuttle stop in the lobby, and a third runs its own. The way from Bangkok, camping, cabins and hotels are on the stay and travel page.

Before you fly: passport, visa exemption and the arrival card

Thailand changed its visa-exemption rules on 15 September 2026. The Tourism Authority of Thailand announced on 1 September that the 60-day exemption would end. Passports of 60 countries and territories now get visa-free entry "for tourism, with a permitted stay of up to 30 days". The list includes the United Kingdom, Ireland, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Taiwan, the UAE and every EU member state.

If you travel on a full British citizen passport, GOV.UK's advice, updated 12 October 2026, says it must be valid for at least six months after you arrive, with at least one blank page. You may be asked for proof of funds, at least THB 10,000 per person or THB 20,000 per family, and for proof of onward or return travel. Overstaying costs THB 500 a day, up to THB 20,000.

Every foreign arrival also fills in the Thailand Digital Arrival Card. "All passengers must complete the Thailand Digital Arrival Card", says the Immigration Bureau's own site, whose title says "No Fees Required". GOV.UK says to register it "within 3 days before they arrive".

On any other passport, check your own government's advice as well. In the United States that is the State Department, and in Australia Smartraveller. The official arrival card site GOV.UK on entering Thailand The Tourism Authority of Thailand on the new rules

Earlier editions, the rest of the season and 2027

This year's festival is a week earlier than its usual second weekend of December, and the organiser's pages give no reason. Time Out Asia, on 9 March 2026, linked the move to Tomorrowland's Pattaya debut on the usual weekend. The tenth edition ran from Thursday 11 to Monday 15 December 2025, according to Time Out Bangkok. The ninth ran from 12 to 16 December 2024, and The Standard put attendance at more than 25,000. For 2023, the organiser's own accommodation post gave check-in on 14 December and check-out on 18 December.

The organiser's FAQ lists other events after the festival. Camp Wonder runs from 18 to 23 December 2026, Field.D is on 20 December 2026, and Din Daen runs from 29 to 31 January 2027. Its site menu also names Open Fields, "Dec 2026–Jan 2027". On 24 October none of them had a page of its own, and none is announced as Wonderfruit 2027, which the organiser has not announced. Wonderfruit Chapters Kyoto, a separate gathering in Kyoto on 22–25 October 2026, has a site of its own. The organiser's FAQ says the main festival stays in Chonburi. Wonderfruit, it seems, prefers a season to a weekend. Wonderfruit Chapters Kyoto

Why this guide is in English

This guide is in English for those who come to Wonderfruit from abroad, or live in Thailand and would rather read in English. Ticketmelon takes payment in baht and says prices in US dollars are subject to the exchange rate. A visitor on a foreign passport needs the 30-day rule and the arrival card as much as the gate times. Those answers are spread over the organiser's ticket, FAQ, camping, hotel and programme pages, Ticketmelon's page and three public bodies' sites. Here they are together, each with its source and the date it was read.

More questions

Children and age limits, ID, dogs, paying on a cashless site, what you may not bring, refunds and promo codes are answered one by one, each with its source, on the questions page.