Warped Tour Returns: 2026 Lineup & Tour Dates Announced

Punk, ska, and emo reunite under one tent as the traveling festival fires up the summer circuit.

Warped Tour is back on the road for 2026 with a lineup spanning ska punk, pop punk, and the emo revival wave, and the routing is the largest the festival has mounted since its 2019 anniversary run. The traveling festival confirmed a full summer circuit with dates coast to coast, the first time the tour has run a full national routing since 2018, and the announcement ends a multi-year wait for a festival that has been rumored to return every summer since it went on hiatus in 2019. The 2026 edition is being produced by founder Kevin Lyman, who has run every iteration of the tour since its 1995 debut, and the lineup is built around the same three-stage format the tour used at its 2010s peak.

The lineup is the part the scene has been waiting for. The 2026 bill is headlined by a ska-punk reunion (Less Than Jake, Reel Big Fish, and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones all confirmed for the full run), a pop-punk mainstage (The Offspring, New Found Glory, and The Story So Far anchoring the routing), and an emo-revival second stage built around the 2010s wave that the tour helped launch — State Champs, Waterparks, and Hot Mulligan all confirmed for the full run. The routing runs June through August, opens in Seattle, and closes in Pomona, with the full date list and ticket links at the official site. The festival has confirmed 40 dates for the full run, with the largest markets getting two-night stands.

The festival is also returning to the format that made it the defining punk tour of the 2000s. The 2026 edition is built around the three-stage format the tour used at its peak — a mainstage for the headliners, a second stage for the mid-card, and a third stage for the up-and-comers — and the routing is the largest national run the tour has mounted since 2018. The festival has confirmed the return of the skate ramp, the merch tent, the nonprofit row, and the signing tent, and the full-day, multi-band, outdoor format that made the tour a summer ritual for a generation of skaters and punks. The announcement has been treated by the scene as the return of a format that has been missing from the touring landscape for the better part of a decade.

Expect the usual chaos: one stage bleeding into the next, merch tents in the asphalt sun, and the kind of mosh pit reunions the scene has been waiting a decade for. The 2026 routing is the first time the tour has run a full national circuit since the 2019 anniversary dates, and the early on-sale numbers suggest the demand has not cooled — the Pomona date sold out inside an hour, the Seattle opener sold out inside two, and the tour has added second nights in five markets based on the early demand. The festival has confirmed that the full lineup will rotate across the run, with regional acts added to each date — a return to the format the tour used at its 2000s peak, where the local opener slot was a rite of passage for the scene's up-and-comers.

The tour is also being treated by the scene as a reunion as much as a return. The 2019 anniversary dates were billed as a farewell, and the 2026 run is the first time the festival has been on the road in seven years — long enough that the generation that came of age at the 2010s Warped dates has spent the intervening years wondering whether the tour would ever come back. The 2026 routing is being produced as a full revival rather than a nostalgia run, with the lineup split between the acts that defined the tour's 2010s peak and the acts that have come up since the hiatus. The tour has confirmed that the signing tent, the nonprofit row, and the skate ramp will all return, and the full-day, multi-band, outdoor format is being treated as a return to the format that made the tour the defining punk summer of a generation.

Dates and tickets at the official site — the early on-sale has been the fastest of any Warped routing in over a decade, and the tour has added second nights in five markets based on the demand. If you spent a summer at Warped, this is the year to come back.