Top EDM festivals

Summer is coming with season of festivals! So I decided to make a list of biggest and most popular EDM fests!

1-Mysteryland

Founded 1993

Date last Saturday of August (NL), December (Chile), June (USA)

Location Netherlands, Chile, United States

2-Sonar Music Festival

Founded 1994

Location Barcelona, Spain and 23 cities around the world

The festival has been divided into two parts since its inception: Sónar by Day and Sónar by Night.

3-Electric Daisy Carnival

Founded 1997

Date May, June, November

Location US, UK, Mexico, Brazil, Japan

The largest electronic music festival outside of Europe.

4-Creamfields

Founded 1998

Date August Bank Holiday weekend

Location Main Daresbury, Cheshire, England. United Arab Emirates, Argentina, Spain, Malta, Ireland, Uruguay, Turkey, Lithuania, Mexico, Russia, Czech Republic, Peru, Chile, Brazil, Poland, Portugal, Australia.

It is one of the largest EDM festivals.

5-Ultra Music Festival

Founded 1999

Date March

Location Main -Miami, Florida. Spain, Argentina, Brazil, Perú, Chile, South Korea, Croatia, South Africa, Colombia, Japan, Belarus, Thailand.

6-Movement

Founded 2000

Date Memorial Day weekend (late May)

Location Detroit, Michigan, United States

In a present time it is one of the world's largest electronic music festivals.

7-Sensation

Founded 2000

Location Main - Netherlands. Plus 29 countries around the world.

Sensation White used to be a trance event, but in later years it has become a pure house event. All the attendees are required to wear white.

BLACK slowly builds up the pace, starting from hard trance, hardstyle and then hardcore. Sensation Black is always held in the second weekend of July. All attendees are required to dress completely in black.

8-GlobalGathering

Founded 2001

Date Last weekend in July

Location Long Marston, Warwickshire, England; Poznań, Poland; Minsk, Belarus; Kiev, Ukraine; Saint Petersburg, Russia; Seoul, South Korea; Miami, Florida; Turkey; Australia; Malaysia.

The festival has twice won the award for Best UK Festival in the DJ Magazine awards.

9-Tomorrowland

Founded 2005

Date Final weekend of July in Belgium, Third weekend of April in Brazil, Final weekend of September "TomorrowWorld" in USA.

Location Boom in Belgium, Chattahoochee Hills in Georgia, USA, Itu in Brazil.

It is one of the most notable and biggest electronic music festivals held in the world.

Awards - International Dance Music Awards - Best Music Event 2012-2016

10-Sunburn Festival

Founded 2007

Date 27-30 December

Location Goa, India

Asia's largest music festival. It was ranked by CNN in 2009 as one of the Top 10 Festivals in world.

11-Outlook Festival

Founded 2008

Date August-September

Location Croatia, Pula

The UK Festival Awards gave Outlook the title of ‘Best Overseas Festival’ in 2011.

12-Stereosonic

Founded 2008

Date November-December

Location Australia, Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney,

In 2011 was the largest festival ever held in Australia.

As of 2012, it was regarded as Australia's fastest growing music festival.

13-Electric Zoo

Founded 2009

Date Labor Day Weekend

Location New York City, Mexico City

It received International Dance Music Awards nominations in 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 for "Best Music Event".

14... Here you can post name of any festival you want, if I forget one. Would be cool if someone will tell story about trip to one of this fest, give advice or even post photos. Waiting for your opinions!