NorCal finally gets Day Trip Festival this October.
Day Trip Festival is coming to NorCal for the first time ever. San Jose, October 17 and 18. Gordo, Vintage Culture, Cloonee and more. Presale opens very soon.
Secure your spot now
If you live in Northern California and you have spent the last few years watching Day Trip happen from a distance while your friends in LA sent you videos of Gordo going absolutely wild on a Sunday afternoon, this is your moment. Day Trip Festival is coming to Northern California for the first time ever and its happening at Discovery Meadow in San Jose on October 17 and 18, 2026. Insomniac just made it official and the presale opens tomorrow. Set your alarms. Don't be the person who finds out it sold out.
For anyone not fully caught up on what Day Trip actually is: it started as a laid back Sunday gathering in Los Angeles and somehow grew into one of the most beloved house and techno brands in the country. It's the kind of festival where the vibe is relaxed enough that you feel like you stumbled into someone's very well curated backyard party, but the lineup is stacked enough that you spend the whole day completely losing your mind. That balance is very hard to get right and Day Trip gets it right every single time.
"What started as a Sunday afternoon in LA just became a two day NorCal takeover. The Bay has been waiting for exactly this."
Who is actually playing and why you should care
The lineup for both days is already out and it is not playing around at all.
Saturday October 17
- Gordo B2B Vintage Culture
- Eli Brown
- Wax Motif
- Script
- JLittle
- Lefty
Sunday October 18
- Cloonee
- After Midnight ft. Matroda x San Pacho
- Fallon
- Eve Lauren
- Sage
- TBA (one very special guest still to be annnounced)
Saturday kicks off with Gordo B2B Vintage Culture which is one of those back to back combinations that sounds completely unhinged on paper and will absolutely destroy a crowd in practice. Two of the biggest names in house music right now sharing a booth at an outdoor festival in California. Add Eli Brown doing a dedicated sunset set and day one already sounds like something people will talk about for months.
Sunday brings Cloonee, whose rise over the last two years has been one of the most exciting things happening in house music right now. Then there is the After Midnight set from Matroda and San Pacho which is exactly as chaotic and brilliant as it sounds. Fallon, Eve Lauren, and Sage round out the day, plus the special guest that will appear on the day. Which means this lineup is not even finished yet and it's already this good.
Discovery Meadow is the right call
Discovery Meadow sits right in the heart of downtown San Jose and it's exactly the kind of open air space that a festival like Day Trip was built for. Wide, green, surrounded by the city skyline, the kind of place where you can watch the sun go down over an Eli Brown sunset set and feel like everything in your life is totally fine. Insomniac is putting this together in partnership with NPU Live which means the production is going to be exactly what you would expect from two organisations that know how to throw a party at this scale.
This is not just a one city expansion. Day Trip is heading to Seattle as well, which means the whole Pacific Northwest is getting pulled into the Day Trip universe this year. The scene up north has been hungry for exactly this kind of event and the timing could not be better.
Presale is already out. Do not overthink it.
Two day tickets go on sale at 12pm PST this Friday May 8th at NorCal.DayTripFest.com There are GA tickets, VIP, and Stage Access options. Sign up for presale now before the general on sale hits and you end up paying more for the same weekend. This is the kind of festival that sells out faster than people expect because the community around Day Trip is extremely loyal and extremely fast. The NorCal debut is going to bring a level of demand that even Insomniac might not be fully ready for.
October in San Jose is going to hit different this year. Two days of sun, a lineup that goes from Gordo and Vintage Culture all the way through to a late night Matroda and San Pacho session, at a venue that was made for exactly this. If you have been waiting for house music to come to NorCal in a serious way, this is the moment. Go sign up for presale right now and lock in your weekend before it is gone.
