C2C Turin 2026: passes, DICE tickets and late-night travel

C2C Festival runs in Turin from October 29 to November 1, 2026. Choose the nights you want before buying a pass: Thursday and Sunday are at OGR Torino, while Friday and Saturday are at Lingotto Fiere. Other city appointments have their own arrangements. Prepare your DICE ticket before travelling and decide how you will get back to your accommodation after the music.

The 25th-anniversary programme gives visitors a reason to make a longer city trip, but four days on the calendar do not mean four days at the same entrance. Turin's municipal event listing confirms the split between venues. A festival visit is easier to plan when each evening has a destination, an admission document and a return route.

The organizer's October 8 programme adds daytime talks, a separate children's preview and city events to the main nights. Those additions make it worth checking the small print on a pass rather than treating its name as a promise of entry everywhere.

Match each night to the right venue

Use this as a first planning table, then check the ticket and current programme for the admission time. All dates and times here are local to Turin.

Lingotto Fiere's event page lists a 5:30pm opening on October 30 and 31. That is an opening time, not a promise that your preferred artist starts then.

For Thursday, the October programme says 7:30pm, while OGR's announcement says 8:30pm. The sources do not explain whether that difference is doors versus performances. Check your issued ticket and the latest organizer instructions. For Sunday, OGR lists 8:30pm. Neither should be used to invent an artist-by-artist timetable or a guaranteed finish.

Which C2C pass fits your trip?

Start with your travel dates and the artists you most want to hear. Add accommodation and the return journey before comparing ticket totals. A cheaper pass does not save money if it makes you book another night away unnecessarily.

The official festival ticket section currently presents these choices:

The Golden Pass row contains a stray 2025 date on the current page. Read the dated ticket details before paying. This guide does not reproduce a final ticket price: releases, remaining stock and fees must be checked in the official purchase flow.

A Passport's four listed nights should not be stretched into an all-city admission claim. If a talk, theatre show or Sunday club appointment matters to you, find its own booking conditions. You can then decide whether the extra journey and admission fit your weekend.

Prepare the DICE ticket before you reach the queue

C2C's entry conditions require matching valid ID and the ticket's QR code in the DICE app; a confirmation email is insufficient. Ordinary festival events are 18+, and re-entry after leaving a venue is not permitted. The rules prohibit large luggage, umbrellas, outside food and drinks, professional cameras and other listed items. Read the complete restrictions before packing. For a disability companion, request assistance through [email protected] by the day before the event; reserved availability applies. DICE transfers to another registered user are provided for in the conditions, but that does not establish an unknown seller's legitimacy.

Leave your suitcase at accommodation before joining an evening queue. A station-to-festival dash is a poor plan if you still need to store luggage, find your booking or resolve a name mismatch. Keep enough time between arriving in Turin and reaching the venue to deal with those tasks.

According to DICE's activation guidance, the QR becomes available on the event day, usually a few hours before the start. The button shows the exact activation time. Send tickets to friends arriving separately before activation opens; once activated, transfer and waitlist options are no longer available. Display the ticket in the app rather than relying on a screenshot.

Before leaving home, install the app and open the booking under the account used to buy it. Check that each person knows whose device holds their ticket. A group arriving together and a group arriving in separate taxis need different preparation.

DICE also says tickets viewed at least once after purchase are available offline. Use that feature, then follow the activation instructions on the day. If your phone is lost or you cannot log in, contact DICE beforehand. Do not assume a generic door-list alternative is confirmed for C2C.

Choose a Turin base around your evenings

For a Friday-and-Saturday visit, being able to reach Lingotto and return without an improvised cross-city journey matters more than a hotel's distance from a daytime landmark. For the four-night Passport, compare both the OGR and Lingotto routes from the actual address, not just the neighbourhood name.

OGR's visitor information places the venue at Corso Castelfidardo 22. It recommends Metro Line 1 at Vinzaglio and gives a roughly ten-minute walk from Porta Susa station. That makes Porta Susa a useful arrival point to compare with your accommodation, though the estimate is not an accessibility guarantee or an entrance-queue allowance.

Lingotto's directions recommend the Lingotto metro stop for the exhibition centre. Follow the C2C arrival instructions for your actual gate. The nearby Oval hosts Artissima, but its fair entrance is not automatically your music-festival entrance.

Staying in Milan or Nice requires more than confirming an outward train or coach. Search the return at the time you expect to leave, including the date after midnight. If the connection does not work, budget a Turin night or decide in advance that you will leave earlier. Do not build the plan around an assumed all-night intercity service.

An apartment can suit a group if the host confirms late access and the sleeping arrangements work. When comparing prices, include any extra transport, luggage storage and the cost of a missed last connection. This is a route decision rather than a recommendation to book a particular hotel.

Plan the late return separately from the outward journey

A metro route that works at 6pm is not evidence that it works after your final set. Look up the outward and return journeys as separate trips. Save the accommodation address in Italian and agree a meeting point with friends before anyone moves to a different stage.

GTT's Night Buster information describes service on Friday, Saturday and nights before public holidays, with routes linked through Piazza Vittorio Veneto. Check the current route, stop, direction and dated timetable for your journey. It does not establish a dedicated C2C shuttle or identical service on every festival night.

Have a fallback you can afford: a confirmed taxi arrangement, a different scheduled service or accommodation reachable by a route you have checked. If walking is part of the plan, inspect the full distance and route in daylight rather than assuming the last few kilometres will feel short at the end of the night.

For fares, GTT's current ticket page lists City at EUR1.90 digitally or EUR2 on chip-on-paper. It covers 100 minutes and one metro journey for one person, with validation when changing vehicles. Daily is EUR3.70 digitally or EUR4.50 on chip-on-paper, valid for the service day rather than a rolling 24 hours. Ordinary urban tickets do not include the airport train. Choose the ticket that matches your dated journeys, especially when crossing midnight.

Do not squeeze Sunday into an unworkable airport departure

Sunday's OGR programme is a separate evening from the Friday-and-Saturday Lingotto visit. Someone with an early Monday flight should decide whether to attend it before choosing the longer pass. No confirmed finish time here supports a promise that you can hear every performance and still make an early flight.

Turin Airport's train information describes a roughly 30-minute link with Porta Susa, running seven days a week, and displays a EUR3.70 fare. Check the specific departure and airport arrival for your flight. Add the journey from accommodation, any wait for the train and the airline's own check-in requirements.

If the first suitable train is too late, arrange another transfer or change the flight plan before the festival weekend. A short rail journey does not solve a missing early departure.

Add daytime plans without exhausting the weekend

The October programme schedules C2C Talks at Teatro Regio on Friday, October 30, from 1pm to 4:30pm. It also describes Sunday city events at Le Roi and Notorius with further programme details to come. Check their admission and reservation conditions separately; a named item on the wider programme is not proof that your evening pass includes it.

For an art visit, use our Artissima Turin guide to plan a separate public fair ticket. Leave time for food and a break before the music. Spending every daytime hour at another event can make the evening you travelled for much less enjoyable.

C2C KIDS! is a separate October 25 preview at Combo Torino, listed from 2:30pm to 6pm. Ask the organizer about its child and accompanying-adult arrangements. Its name does not override the ordinary festival entry conditions above. For broader family plans, our Italy with kids guide covers a different kind of trip.

Useful apps and mobile data between venues

Keep DICE for admission and use the festival's official app link for the current programme. Do not assume the festival app replaces the ticket wallet. GTT's timetable and ticket information help with city travel; download an offline map and save the accommodation pin before arrival.

Mobile data is useful for programme changes, messages when friends split up and checking a return journey. It does not fix a depleted battery, grant entry or guarantee reception in a crowded hall. Carry a charged power bank and agree where to meet if messages are delayed.

When checked on October 14, the public OpenSim Italy catalog included a fixed 5GB, 30-day plan at USD4.76, with top-up support for that plan. For an unlocked compatible phone and a trip focused on maps and messages, that is a defined allowance to compare with buying another home-network travel pass. Prices and availability can change; check the selected plan before purchase.

If your existing plan already includes enough Italy roaming data without an extra charge, keeping it may be simpler. If you expect heavy uploads, use the travel data calculator rather than assuming 5GB covers every visitor. Check phone compatibility and installation timing before departure. DICE's offline ticket preparation remains useful whichever mobile plan you choose.

C2C source checks and guide updates

Dates, ticket distinctions and entry rules were checked against C2C, its venues and DICE on October 14, 2026. Transport details come from GTT and Turin Airport. Check the issued ticket and current organizer notices again before travel, particularly the conflicting Thursday time, any new city-event conditions and late-night transport.

Photograph: Guilhem Vellut, October 28, 2019, OGR Torino courtyard via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY 2.0. Cropped and compressed for this page. It shows the venue in 2019, not the 2026 festival layout.

We will update this guide for confirmed admission, timetable, venue, access or transport changes. After the festival, its dated details should be treated as 2026 reference information rather than booking instructions for another edition.