If you are searching for the Mawazine ticket price, the answer comes in two halves: most of the festival is free, and the tickets that do exist are the premium tiers, the seated venues and the festival cards. The numbers, stage by stage, are below.
Mawazine Rythmes du Monde is one of the biggest music events on the planet, and it belongs to Rabat and its twin city Salé. Around 3.75 million people came through the 2025 edition. The 2026 edition — the 21st — ran from 19 to 27 June 2026 across nine nights, six stages and 70 concerts by more than 60 artists. That edition is now behind us, which makes it the honest reference point for what Mawazine costs, and the best guide to what the next edition, expected in June 2027, is likely to charge.
Mawazine ticket prices at a glance
Here is the whole price picture for the 2026 programme, as listed by the festival's official ticketing partners. Everything is in Moroccan dirham (MAD).
| What you are buying | 2026 price |
|---|---|
| General admission, big open stages (OLM Souissi, Nahda, Bouregreg, Salé) | Free |
| OLM Souissi headline night — TICKET GOLD | 1,200 MAD |
| OLM Souissi headline night — TICKET BLACK | 2,400 MAD |
| Nahda Space — TICKET GOLD | 600 MAD |
| Nahda Space — TICKET BLACK | 1,200 MAD |
| Bouregreg Stage — TICKET | 300 MAD |
| Salé Stage — TICKET | 150 MAD |
| Chellah Historic Site — TICKET | 250 MAD |
| Carte Gold — whole festival | 6,500 MAD |
| Fast Gold — whole festival | 8,500 MAD |
| Carte Black — whole festival | 52,000 MAD |
| Black Quotidienne — one day | 10,000–12,000 MAD |
Two figures stand out: 150 MAD was the cheapest ticketed entry, and the VIP daily card was the only way to spend five figures on one evening.
Is Mawazine free? What "free entry" really means
Mawazine was built on the idea that the largest possible audience should get in. The official 2026 stage page describes OLM Souissi — the international stage on Avenue Imam Malik, opposite the Sofitel Rabat — in three words: "Free entry". Independent festival guides put the free share of the programme at roughly 90% of concerts, singling out the Bouregreg, Salé and Nahda stages as charging no entry at all.
The stages where the crowd walks in for nothing
The three river-and-suburb stages carry the bulk of the programme: Moroccan chaabi and popular song at Salé, African and world rhythms at Bouregreg, and the big oriental and Arabic bill at Nahda Space. None of them required a ticket to join the crowd in 2026. If your plan is simply to be there — standing, dancing, a few metres from the front of a very large field — your ticket budget is zero.
What a paid ticket actually buys
Paid tickets at Mawazine buy one of two things. The first is a seat at a capacity-limited venue: the Chellah historic site, where the 2026 concerts started at 17:30 among the ruins, and the Mohammed V National Theatre, the festival's seated prestige room. The second is an upgraded tier at the big open stages — the tickets sold through the official partners for 2026 were labelled GOLD and BLACK, the classic festival arrangement of a free general crowd plus a reserved or premium zone closer to the stage. If you want that reserved position, you pay for it; if you are happy in the crowd, the open stages stay free.
Mawazine 2026 ticket prices, stage by stage
OLM Souissi — the international headline stage
This is the stage that carries the global names — Tyla, Tiësto, Major Lazer, Nicky Jam and ITZY all played here in 2026 — and it has the highest ticket prices of the festival. On the official partner listings for the 2026 headline nights, the two tiers came in at 1,200 MAD for TICKET GOLD and 2,400 MAD for TICKET BLACK, with the stage priced at 1,200 MAD per concert across the rest of the run. Stand on the field, though, and the official page still calls it free entry.
Nahda, Bouregreg and Salé — the big open stages
Nahda Space, in Salé, hosted the oriental programme and sold two tiers: 600 MAD for GOLD and 1,200 MAD for BLACK. Across the 2026 nights, the listing price sat at 600 MAD on most evenings and rose to 800 MAD for the Tamer Hosny night.
Down at the Bouregreg stage, on the Rabat bank of the river, the programme ran to a single ticket category at 300 MAD — Oumou Sangaré, Sampa The Great and Diamond Platnumz were on that bill.
And the Salé stage, home of the Moroccan programme, was the cheapest ticketed night of the whole festival at 150 MAD — the lowest ticket price anywhere on the 2026 programme.
Chellah and Théâtre Mohammed V — the seated, short-format venues
The Chellah site is the most atmospheric ticketing of the festival: short, intimate sets from 17:30 in the middle of a Roman-era archaeological site. In the 2026 listings those concerts went for 250 MAD a seat.
The Mohammed V National Theatre is the other seated venue, with 21:00 shows and a more formal format. Seat prices are set per performance rather than as a single festival rate; when the 2025 edition published its tariffs, the spread for tickets generally was 300 to 1,400 MAD depending on the stage and the evening.
The festival cards: Carte Gold, Fast Gold and Carte Black
Alongside the per-concert tickets, Mawazine sells festival-wide cards through its official partners. For 2026, the ladder looked like this:
| Card | 2026 price | What it is for |
|---|---|---|
| Carte Gold | 6,500 MAD | Premium access across the festival's run |
| Fast Gold | 8,500 MAD | The same ladder, one step up |
| Carte Black | 52,000 MAD | Full VIP: front-line placement, private transport, VIP hosting |
| Black Quotidienne | 10,000–12,000 MAD | The VIP experience for a single day |
Is the 6,500 MAD Carte Gold worth it?
Do the arithmetic before you buy. A visitor who wants three paid nights — a Chellah afternoon at 250 MAD, a Bouregreg evening at 300 MAD and one OLM Souissi headline at 1,200 MAD — spends 1,750 MAD on tickets. To justify the Carte Gold at 6,500 MAD, you would need to be at the festival for most of its nine nights, using the premium tier every time. And even then, compare it with buying the individual premium tickets you actually want.
The cards suit one kind of traveller: someone in Rabat for the whole festival who wants the reserved position every night and would rather pay once than queue. For a first visit, the free stages plus a couple of single tickets are the better-value route — our Mawazine weekend itinerary shows how much you can cover in 48 hours without buying a card.
Where to buy Mawazine tickets — official partners only
Mawazine sells through a fixed list of official partners, printed on its own ticketing page: ticket.ma, Iticket, guichet.ma, Billetteries.ma (pass line), events.ma and webook.com. Every genuine 2026 concert and card was listed on those platforms, and the prices in this article come from them.
How to spot a fake ticket or scam listing
Three habits will keep you safe. Buy only from the partners listed on mawazine.ma itself, never from a link in a social-media comment. Treat any "promo code" or "discount code" for Mawazine tickets as a red flag — there is no official promo-code scheme, and the honest savings guide explains where the real savings are instead. And remember that when a night sells out, the official platforms mark it "sold out" and close the listing; that is exactly when resale offers appear.
What a Mawazine week really costs
Tickets are only one line of the budget. Here is a realistic week for two people, using the verified 2026 prices:
| Line | Cost for two, one week |
|---|---|
| Tickets: 3 paid nights (Chellah 250 + Bouregreg 300 + OLM Souissi 1,200 each) | 3,500 MAD |
| Tickets: everything else, on the free stages | 0 MAD |
| Accommodation | Book months ahead — the city fills for festival week; see where to stay in Rabat during Mawazine for areas and price bands |
| Transport | The tram links the Rabat and Salé stages cheaply; expect road closures around OLM Souissi |
| Food | Street food and local restaurants keep the daily spend low — our Rabat food guide lists the best of it |
The structural point is that Mawazine lets you choose your own price. Two people can attend nine nights of music on the open stages for the cost of transport and food, or spend 3,500 MAD on tickets and still be in the crowd for the rest of the week. Between those extremes, the 150 MAD Salé night is the single best-value ticket in the festival.
How prices moved from 2025 to 2026, and what to expect for 2027
When the 2025 edition (20–28 June) published its tariffs, the press reported ticket prices running from 300 to 1,400 MAD depending on the stage and the evening, with the VIP cards at 6,500 and 8,500 MAD for the gold tiers, 12,000 MAD for the daily black card and 52,000 MAD for the full Carte Black. The 2026 edition kept the same card ladder and spread the per-concert prices wider — from 150 MAD at Salé up to 2,400 MAD for the top tier at OLM Souissi.
The next edition is expected in June 2027, with the dates usually announced in the spring. Prices follow the lineup, so treat every figure here as the 2026 reference rather than a 2027 promise: the card tiers are the most stable element, and the headline-stage tickets are the most volatile.
Whichever way you plan it, start with the free programme. Read the Mawazine 2026 guide for the whole festival, check the stage-by-stage schedule to see which nights are free at which stage, and if it is your first time, the first-time visitor's guide covers everything around the tickets — what to bring, how to move between stages and how to handle the crowds. Pair a festival day with the Chellah and Hassan Tower sightseeing loop, and if your dates are flexible, the Morocco festivals calendar shows what else is on around the country.
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Sources & Verification
- Mawazine official — 2026 programme (dates, stages, concerts)(high trust)
- Mawazine official — ticketing page and official partners(high trust)
- Mawazine official — 2026 stages and free entry(high trust)
- Guichet.com — official ticketing partner, 2026 Mawazine prices(high trust)
- Ticket.ma — official ticketing partner, ticketed 2026 concerts(high trust)
- Morocco Guide — festival overview, free-stage share, next edition(medium trust)
- L'ODJ Média — 2025 edition ticket tariffs and VIP cards(medium trust)
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Mawazine free?
Mostly. Guides put around 90% of the programme at free entry, and the official 2026 stage page describes the big OLM Souissi stage as free entry. The Bouregreg, Salé and Nahda stages charged no entry at all. What you pay for is the premium GOLD and BLACK zones at the big stages, the seated venues, and the festival cards.
How much does a Mawazine ticket cost?
For the 2026 edition the official partner listings ran from 150 MAD at the Salé stage and 250 MAD at the Chellah site, through 300 MAD at Bouregreg and 600–1,200 MAD at Nahda Space, up to 1,200 MAD (GOLD) and 2,400 MAD (BLACK) for an OLM Souissi headline night.
Do I need a ticket to see the OLM Souissi headliners?
The stage itself is listed as free entry, so you can join the crowd at no cost. The tickets sold for those nights are the premium tiers — 1,200 MAD GOLD and 2,400 MAD BLACK in 2026 — which buy a reserved or upgraded position rather than the only way in.
What is the Carte Gold and is it worth 6,500 MAD?
The Carte Gold gave premium access across the whole 2026 festival for 6,500 MAD, with Fast Gold at 8,500 MAD and the full Carte Black at 52,000 MAD. It only makes sense if you are at the festival most nights and want the reserved position every time: three individual paid nights cost about 1,750 MAD, so a full-week visitor has to be deliberate about using it.
Where can I buy official Mawazine tickets?
Only through the partners listed on mawazine.ma: ticket.ma, Iticket, guichet.ma, Billetteries.ma (pass line), events.ma and webook.com. When a night sells out the official listings close and mark it full — that is when unofficial resale offers appear, so buy from the official partners first.
When is the next Mawazine, and when are the 2027 prices announced?
The next edition is expected in June 2027, with dates usually announced in the spring. Prices follow the lineup: the card tiers have been the most stable element, while headline-stage ticket prices move most from edition to edition.
