EDC Orlando returns to Tinker Field on 6-8 November for its 15th edition, running under a kineticJOURNEY theme across five stages with more than 100 artists billed. Gates open at 1 PM each day and the festival runs to midnight — a daytime-into-night schedule that sets it apart from the Las Vegas flagship's dusk-till-sunrise format. The headline bill. Insomniac's announced top tier is built on names that carry mainstages anywhere in the world: David Guetta, Kaskade, Martin Garrix, Hardwell, Alesso and Alan Walker, with Afrojack and Steve Aoki also in the upper reaches. Underneath them sit two of the most in-demand acts of the current cycle — Mau P, whose Baddest Behaviour imprint has become one of the reliable tech-house signals of the last two years, and Los Angeles duo SLANDER, whose EDC sets have become an emotional anchor point for the Insomniac audience. The takeovers are where the depth is. House, techno and bass all get dedicated real estate: Factory 93, Bassrush and Insomniac Records each anchor programming blocks across the weekend. For anyone whose interest runs past the mainstage bill, those three blocks are the actual reason to read the schedule when it lands — they are where Insomniac puts the artists who are not yet headlining but shortly will be. Why the 15th is a real milestone. EDC Orlando has spent most of its life being described as the small one — the East Coast satellite of the Las Vegas flagship. That framing stopped being accurate several years ago. Tinker Field is now a three-day festival with a five-stage build and a headliner bill that overlaps substantially with the Vegas top tier. What it still has, and what Vegas structurally cannot, is a walkable footprint in the middle of a city. kineticJOURNEY. The theme names the stage identity the festival is organised around. Insomniac's kinetic prefix — kineticFIELD in Las Vegas, kineticENERGY, kineticJOURNEY here — denotes the mainstage lineage, and the theme sets the production language for the build. Hotel EDC comes east. New for 2026 is Hotel EDC Orlando, a hospitality pop-up at Margaritaville Resort Orlando running 6-9 November. It is the first East Coast edition of the concept: EDC-themed rooms, an on-site Vibee concierge, and access to daytime and after-parties tied to the festival. For an event whose crowd has historically been split between locals and fly-ins, a dedicated festival hotel is a meaningful structural addition rather than a merchandising exercise. Tickets and logistics. Three-day General Admission, GA+ and 21+ VIP tiers are on sale through edcorlando.frontgatetickets.com. Tinker Field sits at 287 S Tampa Ave in downtown Orlando. Per-day stage assignments and set times have not been released — Insomniac has historically published those close to the event through the official site and its SMS and email channels. November in Florida. The practical argument for EDC Orlando over the Las Vegas flagship has always been the weather. Tinker Field in early November is the most comfortable set of conditions Insomniac programmes anywhere in its calendar — no desert night collapse, no 40-degree afternoon. It is a genuine reason the Orlando edition retains a returning crowd. Rockstarr Media will publish the stage-by-stage breakdown and set times as soon as Insomniac releases them.