Heading off to a festival this summer? You’ll need a tent! No matter what your budget or your size and style requirements, we’ve brought you a shortlist of the best festival camping tents, updated new for summer 2017.

Festival Tent Considerations

Before you choose a festival tent, you should ask yourself the following questions.

Do you want to be able to get dressed/sit up/stand in your tent?
Do you want to use the tent again?
Will you be sharing a tent with anyone?
Will you need to carry the tent easily on your own?
Do you need space for lots of stuff?
Is there a porch or separate area to keep muddy footwear in?

Look here for Festival Camping Tips, or see our Summer Festival Camping Essentials for 2017.

Ikea Spridd 2 Persona Festival Tent £35

A small and lightweight tent that you can easily carry using the two handles on the bag.

Buy the Spridd festival tent here

Field Candy What A Melon Festival Explorer Tent £299

Filed Candy tents are exceptionally high quality and good for many years of camping, not just the occasional summer music festival.

Buy the Field Candy What A Melon Festival Explorer Tent

Azuma 2 Person Double Skin Music Festival Dome Tent £24.99

Azuma tents come in a great selection of bright colours and include a handy carry bag for easy transportation.

Buy the Azuma 2 Person Festival Tent

10T Outdoor Equipment Shoshone 500 Tepee Tent £193.65

Perfect for large groups, this is a great value teepee style tent that’s light, but big and airy making it ideal for family festivals or sharing with friends.

Buy the Shoshone 500 Tepee Tent

Funky Monkey Festival Tent £125.00

Strangely this Funky Monkey tent features a Gorilla on the front, but if you want something a bit different it will certainly stand out!

Buy the Funky Monkey Festival Tent

Regatta 2 Man Paisley Pop Up Tent £47.95

Cheap and cheerful, this is your typical festival tent at an affordable price, but this one comes with a funky patterned flysheet. The tent features pockets, lantern hanging points, vents and a mesh door.

Buy the Regatta 2 Man Paisley Pop Up Tent £39.95

Eurohike Avon DLX 3 Man Tent £70

From festivals to weekend trips, the Avon is easy to pitch, reliable and allows you to sleep comfortably even if it rains.

Buy the Eurohike Avon DLX 3 Man Tent

Freedom Trail Apache 4 Tipi Tent £69.99

Freedom Trail’s Apache 4 is a simple, single skinned tipi style tent that’s ideal for sleep overs or adding a bit of style to your festival camping.

Buy theFreedom Trail Apache 4 Tipi Tent £44.99

FieldCandy Original Explorer Leopard Print 2 Man Tent £292

This is a high performance storm tent with classic A frame construction, able to stand up to extreme weather conditions and it will see you through many happy years’ of festival camping.

See more of the FieldCandy Leopard Print 2 Man Tent £292

Easy Camp Tribal Print Tipi Tent 2016 £99

Sleeping four in a fast pitching design, the distinctive style of the versatile single wall Tipi range combines a retro look, using an easy-pitch center pole, with a full mesh door, multiple guylines for stability, taped seams, integral groundsheet and an apex cowl over efficient venting.

See more of the Easy Camp Tribal Tipi Tent 2016 £99

Easy Camp Image Festival Tent Tent 2016 £29.99

Easy Camp x ray festival tent

Great value, and fun designs make the new 2016 range of festival tents from Easy Camp the perfect choice. Just about big enough for two to share comfortably, you benefit from stand-out designs without having to pay too much. Ideal if you only camp a couple of times a year.

Easy Camp Image Festival Tent Tent 2016 £29.99

Eurohike Nautical Pop Up SD 2 Man Tent £30.00

This little tent is cheap and cheerful and super fast to put up. Don’t even think of sleeping more than 1 adult in it though, and don’t expect it to stand up to torrential rain. No single skin popup tent can do that, but for a short summer music festival, this does the job.

See more of the Eurohike Nautical Pop Up SD 2 Man Tent £30.00

RobensFairbanks Outback Tipi Tent 2016 £449.00

The new Fairbanks is a single wall HydroTex Polycotton tipi is easy to pitch and extremely high quality. It features protective eaves that extend out at the front to create a large porch area accessed by a single door with an arch-shaped two-way zip.

Buy the RobensFairbanks Outback Tipi Tent 2016 £449.00

EASY CAMP People Image 2 Man Tent £20.00

Ridge tent design, which is compact and easy to carry and put up. With similar looks to the FieldCandy tent featured further on in this article, the main difference is the quality and the lower price point. A great, funky design, though we’d recommend it only for single occupancy use.

EASY CAMP People Image 2 Man Tent £20.00

Outwell Earth 3 Man Tent 2016 £99.99

New for 2016, this is a great value tent that will see you through a summer full of music festivals and then some. Quick and easy to pitch, sleeping three people, the Earth 3 tunnel tent offers ample storage and sleeping space for active campers

See more of the Outwell Earth 3 Tent 2016 £99.99

Mini Break 4 Person Tent £79.99

A bit more space makes this ideal for 2 to sleep in without being squished up, leaving room for bags and festival essentials like fancy dress outfits and crates of beer. Decent enough quality for you to use again once the festival is over.

See more of the Mini Break 4 Person Tent £79.99

Robens Kiowa Tipi Tent £799.99

We think this makes an ideal group or family festival camping tent. Robens make extremely high quality tents that are weatherproof and durable. This will stand out too, making it easy to spot amongst a sea of tents.

Robens Kiowa Tipi Tent £799.99

Eurohike Backpacker DLX 2 Tent £40

if you are traveling to a festival by foot, you want a tent that is compact and light. This fits the bill at a decent price. Sturdier than a basic popup tent, this little tent does the job.

Eurohike Backpacker DLX 2 Tent £40