Coachella arrests and dates

Coachella ended its 2026 run with 203 arrests across two weekends in Indio, and organizers immediately set dates for the festival’s 2027 return. (ktla.com) Indio police said the arrests covered the April 10-12 and April 17-19 festival weekends at the Empire Polo Club. KTLA and other local reports said the alleged offenses included public intoxication, drug possession and false identification. (ktla.com) Police reported 106 arrests during Weekend 2 alone, according to KESQ and CBS Los Angeles, which put the two-weekend total just above 200 before the final tally was published. KTLA said the 203 total was slightly lower than last year’s count. (kesq.com) That arrest count lands at the end of one of the country’s biggest festival operations, with Coachella again running its two-weekend format in the desert outside Palm Springs. The official festival site listed the 2026 dates as April 10-12 and April 17-19. (coachella.com) Goldenvoice has already posted the 2027 dates on Coachella’s official site: April 9-11 for Weekend 1 and April 16-18 for Weekend 2, again at the Empire Polo Club in Indio. The festival’s passes page says advance sales for both weekends open May 1. (coachella.com) That early calendar release follows Coachella’s usual pattern of selling passes before a lineup is announced. TicketNews and Consequence both reported that fans can buy into the 2027 festival months before any artist bill is public. (ticketnews.com) The quick pivot from police totals to next year’s onsale shows how Coachella now operates as both a major live event and a year-round ticketing machine. By late April 2026, the 2026 festival was over, the arrest numbers were public, and the 2027 planning window was already open. (ktla.com)