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Isle of Wight Festival Readies for Weekend With Set Times, 3D Map and New Arena Rules

Final updates aim to reduce queues, improve safety for visitors navigating the site.

Overview

  • Organisers released full Main Stage and Big Top running orders and launched an official 3D site map in the festival app on Tuesday, June 16 to help attendees plan where and when acts will play.
  • The festival has introduced tighter controls on chairs and blankets in the main arena and clarified that trolleys will be allowed for accessibility customers and people attending with children.
  • National forecasts from the BBC and the Met Office predict mainly fine, warm weather with daytime highs in the high teens to low‑mid 20s Celsius and a small risk of isolated showers or thundery activity late in the weekend.
  • Practical site updates include a single Co‑op campsite store in the Mellow Yellow area near Gate A3, modest price rises for Southern Vectis shuttle services, and the app as the primary channel for maps and exclusion-zone information.
  • The four‑day event runs at Seaclose Park, Newport from June 18 to 21 with headline sets from The Cure, Lewis Capaldi and Calvin Harris and tens of thousands of revellers expected to travel by ferry, hovercraft and shuttle buses.