It seems every Glastonbury regular is obsessed with the size of the Worthy Farm festival, returning on June 26. ‘It’s like, huge, you will walk, like, so far,’ they say wide-eyed, while offering important but obvious footwear advice ( word on the street is that walking boots are advisable ). But let’s get the facts straight.
Just how big actually is Glastonbury Festival? If only we could plonk the surface area of Glastonbury on our home town to grasp its size...
Luckily, there’s a website for that , in which you can overlay Glastonbury Festival onto anywhere in the world, giving you an exact size comparison. Hopefully this could clear up any big festival scaries for Glastonbury first-timers, and you will realise that actually – although it’s 900 acres big, 3,000 acts strong and attended by 200,000 people – you will soon be able to get your bearings. Or, perhaps not.
.. From Waterloo to Tottenham Court Road, Glastonbury does cover a mighty chunk of central London but is admittedly a little dot when you take in the size of the capital.
Londoners are used to Hyde Park Festival, which pales in comparison to Glastonbury in terms of act count and size – but the Worthy Farm grounds are only a little bit bigger than that particular London park (if you include Kensington Gardens, too, and tip it on its side!). Perhaps a better park comparison is Regents’ Park, which Glastonbury neatly covers, while also taking in half of Primrose Hill and a few neighbouring streets..