When Is The Weeknd at Wembley in 2026 and How Much Are Tickets? All 5 Dates & Prices

He's playing more nights at Wembley than almost any artist this summer, on a tour billed as the biggest R&B run in history — so here's the essential picture before the detail. The Weeknd brings his After Hours Til Dawn Stadium Tour to Wembley Stadium for five nights: Friday 14, Saturday 15, Sunday 16, Tuesday 18 and Wednesday 19 August 2026, with US rapper Playboi Carti supporting on every UK and European date; doors open around 17:00 with the show finishing by Wembley's 22:30 curfew (Carti expected on around 18:00, The Weeknd around 20:00), face-value tickets run from £60.25 up to £671.76 for VIP with general admission standing at roughly £145, everything sells through official sellers (Ticketmaster) only, there's no event parking so Wembley Park and Wembley Stadium stations are the way in, and £1 from every UK ticket goes to humanitarian causes — all confirmed to The WP Times by the official tour, the venue and Wembley Park. The full breakdown — every date, every price tier, stage times, travel and what to expect from the show — follows below.

This is a big deal for the capital. The After Hours Til Dawn tour has been running since 2022 and has grown into a record-breaking, theatrical stadium spectacle — a cosmic, post-apocalyptic journey through Abel Tesfaye's catalogue, from After Hours and Dawn FM to 2025's Hurry Up Tomorrow, which the artist has suggested may be his final album under the Weeknd name. That "possible farewell" framing, five nights deep, makes these Wembley shows feel like a landmark. In this guide, The WP Times sets out the dates and prices in full, the ticketing and resale rules, the Wembley travel plan, stage timings and the production you're paying for.

At a glance: The Weeknd at Wembley 2026

When is The Weeknd at Wembley? All five dates

After demand for the initial London announcement, the run was expanded to five nights at Wembley Stadium in August 2026. The confirmed dates are:

• Friday 14 August 2026
• Saturday 15 August 2026
• Sunday 16 August 2026
• Tuesday 18 August 2026
• Wednesday 19 August 2026

Wembley is one of only two UK venues on the 2026 tour — the other being Manchester's Etihad Stadium earlier in the summer — so for most UK fans, these London nights are the show. The tour also rolls through Warsaw, Stockholm, Dublin, Paris, Amsterdam, Madrid, Milan and more across August, but the five-night Wembley stand is among its largest single-city residencies.

How much are The Weeknd Wembley tickets

Face-value ticket prices for the UK shows have been confirmed across a wide range, reflecting everything from upper-tier seats to premium VIP packages:

• From £60.25 at the entry level (upper-tier seating).
• General Admission standing: ~£145 for the pitch.
• Up to £671.76 for VIP packages.

That's a notable step up from The Weeknd's last Wembley run in 2023, when non-VIP tickets sat roughly between £50 and £150. As ever with stadium shows, the exact price you pay depends on the date, the section and demand — and individual dates can carry different starting prices as availability shifts. Tickets went on general sale on 12 September 2025, following presales between 9 and 11 September, and remain available across the five dates via the official seller.

Official sellers only. Wembley and the tour are explicit: buy from Ticketmaster, the official seller, and never from an unofficial source — touted tickets can mean being denied entry. A select number of genuine presale tickets are resold through Ticketmaster's own platform; that's the safe resale route if a date is sold out.

There's a charitable footnote worth knowing: £1 from every UK ticket (and the equivalent across Europe, Mexico and Brazil) is donated to the XO Humanitarian Fund, supporting the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund and the UN World Food Programme — so part of your ticket goes towards education and hunger relief.

What time does The Weeknd come on stage

Across the Wembley run, doors open around 17:00, and the published guidance points to Playboi Carti at approximately 18:00, followed by The Weeknd at around 20:00, with the show wrapping by the stadium's 22:30 curfew. As with all live events, timings can shift — confirm on the day via the official channels and the Wembley app.

Don't aim to roll in for the headliner alone — Playboi Carti is a major draw in his own right, and Wembley security queues build steeply before doors. Treat 17:00–18:00 as your arrival window, not 19:30.

Who is Playboi Carti, the support act

Supporting on every UK and European date is Playboi Carti, the American rapper known for his genre-bending, eccentric vocal style, his outsized influence on fashion, and a live show built on raw energy. He and The Weeknd are not strangers — the pair previously joined Madonna on the hit Popular — and his slot is a substantial part of the night rather than a throwaway opener. For fans of contemporary hip-hop, the pairing is a genuine double bill, and a reason to be inside the bowl well before 8pm.

The show: what to expect from After Hours Til Dawn

The After Hours Til Dawn production is one of the most ambitious in current stadium touring. The staging tells a narrative — a cosmic, apocalyptic journey through a ruined cityscape — realised with a massive lighting and video rig, a long runway adorned with a giant moon, and a band setup that places The Weeknd in a futuristic, desolate world. Past versions have featured towering LED panels recreating entire city streets, and live cameras projecting the crowd and the artist across the screens to pull the whole stadium into the story.

Musically, the setlist spans his run of era-defining hits — Blinding Lights, Save Your Tears, Starboy, The Hills and more — alongside material from Dawn FM and Hurry Up Tomorrow. The result is part greatest-hits arena spectacle, part theatrical concept piece. Reviews of the tour consistently single out the production scale and Tesfaye's command of a stadium crowd, with comparisons to classic pop showmanship.

Getting to Wembley Stadium: the travel plan

Wembley Stadium sits in north-west London with excellent transport links, and — as with all major events here — there's no event parking, so public transport is the way in and out. Three options cover most journeys:

• Wembley Park (Underground): Metropolitan and Jubilee lines, then a roughly 10-minute walk down Olympic Way ("Wembley Way") to the stadium — the classic approach.
• Wembley Stadium (rail): direct mainline trains from London Marylebone take about nine minutes — often the fastest route from central London.
• Wembley Central (Bakerloo line / Overground): around a 20-minute walk to the stadium, a useful alternative to spread the load.

If you don't mind a longer stroll, North Wembley station is roughly a 34-minute walk and can be a quieter option on the way out. Whichever you choose, check Transport for London for any planned engineering works on your date before you travel.

The post-show escape plan

Wembley holds up to 90,000 people, so leaving is the hardest part of the night. To make it painless:

1. Don't rush the first train. The crush peaks immediately after the encore; a short wait thins it fast.
2. Spread across stations. If Wembley Park is heaving, walk to Wembley Central or a mainline option instead.
3. Know your last train. Especially on the Tuesday and Wednesday nights, check final departures before you go in.
4. Screenshot your route. Signal is unreliable in a 90,000 crowd — save your plan offline.
5. Stay for the lights if you can. Letting the first wave clear while the stadium empties is calmer than joining it.

Accessibility, bags and practical tips

• Accessible tickets: book via Wembley's accessible booking service on 0800 093 0824; Deaf BSL users have a dedicated BSL ticketing helpline.
• Bag policy: Wembley restricts bag sizes — check the current policy and travel light to speed through security.
• Cashless: the stadium is card/contactless; bring a phone or card and a power bank.
• Arrive early: five sold-out-scale nights mean heavy queues — give yourself time before doors.
• Weather: mid-August evenings are usually mild but can cool after dark in an open bowl; a light layer helps.

Which night should you pick

With five dates, you have flexibility — and the shows themselves are the same production, so the choice comes down to logistics and price rather than line-up. The weekend nights (Fri 14, Sat 15, Sun 16) tend to carry the biggest atmosphere and the highest demand, which can mean steeper prices and busier transport. The midweek dates (Tue 18, Wed 19) can be slightly easier on both the wallet and the journey home, with the trade-off of an earlier last train. If you're travelling from outside London, a midweek night plus an overnight stay can work out smoother than fighting the weekend crowds.

Whatever you choose, book early through official channels: across a five-night Wembley stand, individual dates sell and re-price at different speeds, and the best-value tiers go first.

Why these Wembley shows matter

Abel Tesfaye — The Weeknd — built a mysterious, dark persona from a run of early-2010s mixtapes into one of the defining pop and R&B artists of his generation, with global hits and collaborations spanning Daft Punk to Ariana Grande. The After Hours era and its singles, above all Blinding Lights, turned the live show into a theatrical event, and the After Hours Til Dawn tour has since become, by the tour's own billing, the biggest R&B tour in history.

There's an added weight to 2026. Tesfaye has spoken about wanting to retire the Weeknd name, describing 2025's Hurry Up Tomorrow as a possible final chapter under the moniker. Whether or not these prove to be among his last shows as The Weeknd, five nights at Wembley — at the height of his production and catalogue — is the kind of run that defines a London summer.

Understanding the VIP and hospitality tiers

The jump from a £60.25 upper-tier seat to a £671.76 VIP package is large, so it's worth knowing what the premium tiers typically add at a stadium show of this scale. Hospitality and VIP packages generally bundle some combination of priority or early entry, premium viewing positions, dedicated bars and lounges, separate facilities and exclusive merchandise — turning the night from a ticket into an experience. Whether that's worth it depends entirely on the occasion: for a milestone birthday or a once-in-a-tour show, the comfort and access can justify the spend; for most fans, a well-chosen seated tier or the general admission pitch delivers the full spectacle for far less.

One honest note on general admission: at £145 for the standing pitch, you're closest to the runway and the heart of the production, but you commit to standing for the whole evening in a 90,000 crowd. If you value a guaranteed view and a seat, an upper or lower tier can be the smarter buy — Wembley's screens and sound are excellent from every level, and the After Hours staging is built to read from distance.

How 2026 compares to The Weeknd's last Wembley run

The Weeknd last played Wembley in 2023, and the 2026 return is a clear escalation. Then, it was a shorter London stand with non-VIP tickets sitting roughly between £50 and £150; now it's a five-night residency with a top VIP tier north of £670 and an entry price that has crept up to £60.25. That inflation mirrors the wider stadium-touring market — where the biggest acts now command premium pricing and multi-night runs — but it also reflects The Weeknd's own ascent: between 2023 and 2026 he released Hurry Up Tomorrow, completed the narrative arc of the After Hours / Dawn FM trilogy, and turned After Hours Til Dawn into what the tour bills as the biggest R&B run ever staged.

For fans, the practical consequence is simple: demand is higher, the production is bigger, and the best-value tickets move fastest. Booking early — and only through official channels — matters more than it did three years ago.

Wembley in context: the wider UK tour

The five Wembley nights are the centrepiece of a two-city UK leg. Earlier in the summer, The Weeknd plays Manchester's Etihad Stadium, giving fans in the north of England a closer option, before the tour settles into its London residency in mid-August. Beyond the UK, the 2026 run is genuinely continental — Warsaw, Stockholm, Dublin's Croke Park, Paris, Amsterdam, Madrid and Milan all feature — but Wembley's five-night stand stands out even on that map as one of the tour's defining engagements.

That scale is part of why the London shows feel like an event rather than a date. A single artist holding Wembley for five nights in a single August is rare company; it places The Weeknd alongside the handful of acts — the Oasis and Coldplay tier — capable of filling the national stadium night after night.

Before the show: making a night of Wembley Park

Wembley Park has been transformed over the past decade into a destination in its own right, which makes the pre-show easy to plan. The area around Olympic Way is lined with bars, restaurants and the London Designer Outlet, giving you somewhere to eat and meet before heading down to the stadium. On a five-night run, that infrastructure matters — it absorbs huge crowds without the scramble you'd face at a less developed venue.

The walk down Olympic Way to the stadium, with the arch rising ahead, is part of the occasion, especially as the late-summer evening light fades. Arriving early to soak that up — rather than sprinting from the Tube at 19:45 — is a better way to start the night, and it spaces out your security queue too. Tables in the busiest spots go quickly on event days, so book ahead where you can.

Weather and what to bring

Mid-August in London is usually mild, but Wembley's open bowl cools after dark, so a light layer is sensible for the later part of the night. Bring a contactless card or phone (the stadium is cashless), a power bank for a long evening, and your mobile ticket downloaded in advance — signal in a 90,000 crowd is patchy. If rain threatens, a thin waterproof is far more practical than an umbrella, which won't be welcome in a packed standing area.

What songs will The Weeknd play

While exact setlists evolve through a tour, the After Hours Til Dawn shows are built around a deep run of hits that span his whole career. Expect the After Hours blockbusters — above all Blinding Lights, the most-streamed song of its era, plus Save Your Tears and In Your Eyes — alongside earlier signatures like Starboy, The Hills, Can't Feel My Face and I Feel It Coming. The set also weaves in the Dawn FM material and selections from Hurry Up Tomorrow, framing the night as a journey through the trilogy rather than a simple hits parade.

The staging reinforces that narrative arc: the show is structured as a passage from darkness towards dawn, mirrored in the lighting, the giant moon on the runway and the city-in-ruins backdrop. It's why fans and critics describe it less as a concert and more as a theatrical production — and why arriving in time to catch the full sequence, from Playboi Carti through to the encore, is worth the early start.

Presales, general sale and safe resale

Tickets for the 2026 Wembley dates went to general sale on 12 September 2025, preceded by a wave of presales between 9 and 11 September — including Live Nation, O2 Priority, Nespresso and Ticketmaster presales. Presales give account holders early access before the public on-sale, and typically require a registered account with the relevant ticketing partner; details are shared with eligible members by email ahead of time.

If a date you want has sold out, the safest route is Ticketmaster's official resale, where a number of genuine presale and returned tickets are re-listed at controlled prices. Avoid third-party touts and unofficial resale sites entirely: Wembley and the tour warn that tickets bought from unofficial sources may be refused at the gate, leaving you out of pocket with no entry. The rule is consistent across every official source — buy from Ticketmaster, full stop.

Comfort and safety on the night

A few small preparations make a 90,000-capacity stadium night far more enjoyable. Stay hydrated across a long evening — free water is available inside, and the August warmth plus a packed crowd can be draining. If you're on the standing pitch, wear sturdy, comfortable footwear and agree a meeting point with your group in advance, since signal is unreliable and the pitch is vast. And while The Weeknd's show is more about immersive production than sheer volume, anyone sensitive to loud sound — or attending with children — may appreciate basic ear protection, which doesn't dull the experience.

Quick checklist

1. Dates: 14, 15, 16, 18 and 19 August 2026, Wembley Stadium.
2. Support: Playboi Carti on every date.
3. Prices: £60.25 to £671.76 (VIP); GA standing ~£145.
4. Times: doors ~17:00, Carti ~18:00, The Weeknd ~20:00, curfew ~22:30.
5. Tickets: Ticketmaster only — never unofficial resale.
6. Travel: Wembley Park / Wembley Stadium stations; no parking.

Frequently asked questions

When is The Weeknd at Wembley in 2026?

Five nights: Friday 14, Saturday 15, Sunday 16, Tuesday 18 and Wednesday 19 August 2026, at Wembley Stadium.

How much are tickets?

Face value runs from £60.25 to £671.76 for VIP, with general admission standing at roughly £145. Prices vary by date and section. Buy through Ticketmaster only.

What time does the show start?

Doors around 17:00, Playboi Carti about 18:00, The Weeknd about 20:00, with a 22:30 curfew. Timings can change — check on the day.

Who is supporting?

Playboi Carti supports on all UK and European dates.

How do I get there?

Public transport — there's no parking. Wembley Park (Metropolitan/Jubilee, ~10-min walk), Wembley Stadium (mainline from Marylebone, ~9 min) or Wembley Central (Bakerloo/Overground, ~20-min walk).

Are these The Weeknd's last shows?

The artist has suggested he may retire the Weeknd name after Hurry Up Tomorrow, but nothing is confirmed. Either way, these are among his biggest London shows to date.

How do I book accessible tickets?

Call Wembley's accessible booking service on 0800 093 0824; Deaf BSL users can use the dedicated BSL ticketing helpline.

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