Download Festival 2026: check out the weather forecast

The festival returns to Donington Park in Leicestershire next week, but will you need shades or wellies?

Download Festival 2026 is going down next weekend, but what is the weather looking like? Find the latest forecast below.

The rock and metal festival returns to Donington Park in Leicestershire from June 10 to 14, and at the end of last year, organisers confirmed that Limp Bizkit, Guns N’ Roses and Linkin Park would be the 2026 headliners , each a UK exclusive for the year.

Other big names announced for the event included Bad Omens , Cypress Hill , Tom Morello , Trivium , Halestorm , Pendulum , Mastodon , BABYMETAL , Architects and Feeder , while the line-up for the District X stage will feature Five , Electric Six and The All-American Rejects .

There will also be some secret sets that will be revealed on the weekend itself, as well as sets from TokenGrass – a bluegrass tribute to Sleep Token – and a Rage Against The Machine tribute act fronted by a Nicolas Cage impersonator, titled Nic Cage Against The Machine.

Despite its placement in the summer months, Donington Park’s weather record during Download is mixed, with 2024 memorably becoming something of a mudbath. With the festival now just days away, the BBC Weather forecast is now available.

The BBC predicts that there will be light rain showers throughout the five days of Download 2026, with a moderate breeze also likely to be present on each day.

Take a look at the latest BBC Weather forecast below (last updated 16:30, June 6) .