Vans Warped Tour Reveals 2026 Dates With New Stops In Montreal And Mexico City

Vans Warped Tour has locked in its 2026 run, and the rebooted festival is already pushing beyond its US comeback.

After returning from a five year break in 2025, Vans Warped tour will head to Montreal, Quebec, and Mexico City, Mexico, marking the first international additions of the revived era, the tour will also return to its 2025 cities in Washington, D.C., Long Beach, California, and Orlando, Florida.

Founder Kevin Lyman says expanding the tour outside the US again wasn’t just a logistical milestone but a cultural one. “Bringing Warped back to international stages is an exciting milestone,” he explains.

“Montreal and Mexico City are home to some of the most dedicated music fans in the world, and expanding into these cities lets us share the Warped spirit with even more people. It’s the perfect time to grow the tour and celebrate the global community that’s been with us from the beginning.”

The 2025 edition marked Warped Tour’s 30th anniversary and pulled in a stacked lineup that mixed nostalgia with modern alternative sounds, featuring artists like Simple Plan, Yellowcard and Avril Lavigne. The 2026 lineup hasn’t been announced yet, but organizers say the format remains the same, a mix of legacy acts, newer names, and genre spanning energy from across rock, punk, pop-punk, alternative and everything orbiting those worlds.

Battle of the Bands returns

Ernie Ball’s Battle of the Bands will also return in early 2026, giving emerging artists a shot at the Warped stage, a tradition that helped launch countless bands long before the tour’s hiatus.

Ticket sales open soon, with Montreal, Washington, D.C., Long Beach, and Orlando going on sale Nov. 26 at 9 a.m. PST, and Mexico City tickets hitting the public on Dec. 2 at 12 p.m. PST.

More info is available on the official Vans Warped Tour site, along with updates on the lineup as it rolls out.

After a successful relaunch, Warped is clearly not easing back in, the 2026 expansion shows the festival is betting on a younger generation of fans, an older generation of lifers, and the global community that kept its legacy alive during its absence.