The sheer size and scale of the Glastonbury Festival has been captured in an aerial shot video. The festival has returned to its annual home of Worthy Farm this week, with popular musicians such as Dua Lipa, Coldplay, and SZA set to take to the stage. The footage, which was captured at last year’s festival, was recorded from a hot air balloon 3000ft up in the sky.
The video shows hundreds of acres of land, with thousands of people crowding around different stages and tents. Even from 3000ft in the air, the site looks neatly organised and impressively enormous. Recently, an interactive map has been created to allow users to compare Glastonbury’s site size with anywhere in the world.
The approximately 900-acre Somerset site trumps other festivals around the world in sheer size, including Coachella (642 acres), Leeds (600 acres), and Reading (100 acres). The map was created by Manchester-based programmer Geoffrey Prytherch, who decided to build the tool when an older, similar website “suddenly disappeared”. The tool allows users to enter a postcode to the Glastonbury Map Overlap and see how walking across the festival site would compare to a neighbourhood walk.
This year’s edition of the festival will take place between June 26-30, with Dua Lipa, Coldplay, and SZA headlining the Pyramid Stage. Other confirmed acts include Shania Twain, LCD Soundsystem, Little Simz, and The National. The bookies’ odds have also been published for who might be playing a secret set at Worthy Farm this year
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