MIRA 2026 stage times: Arca at 01:15, Max Cooper at 21:45 and each night's clashes at Fira Montjuïc

Anyone with a ticket for MIRA 2026 can now start planning. The Barcelona festival of electronic music and digital arts has published the stage times by artist and stage for its two nights at Fira Montjuïc, Friday 6 and Saturday 7 November, from 17:30 to 05:30. Arca goes on at 01:15 in the early hours of Friday night and Max Cooper at 21:45 on Saturday, on the same stage and following a recurring pattern: the most popular live sets are concentrated between 21:45 and 02:15.

We already covered the line-up by day in our MIRA 2026 guide, before the times had been published. Here are the full stage times, the clashes that force you to decide and how to get home each night.

Friday 6 stage times: Tortoise, Shygirl and Arca

The festival splits the performances between two stages, Voll-Damm and DICE, and schedules them so that one almost always starts as the other finishes. On Friday, the best-known names play back to back on Voll-Damm: Tortoise (22:15-23:35), Shygirl with visuals by Onionlab (00:00-00:50) and Arca (01:15-02:15). The night ends with two DJ sets running in parallel: Helena Hauff with VJ Ayl and Tutu with VJ Roc.

On Friday, the music starts at 18:00, half an hour after the site opens, and the Landscapes Digital Art Area, with the installations, is open on both nights from 17:30 to 05:30.

Saturday 7 stage times: Max Cooper, underscores and Machine Girl

Saturday starts earlier, at 17:45, with AEDOSSYNTH's performance, and its centrepiece is the audiovisual live set by Max Cooper, who takes the Voll-Damm stage from 21:45 to 23:45: two hours, the longest live set on the line-up. After that come underscores at midnight and Machine Girl at 01:15, and the close is again split between two sets, by dj g2g and DJ Zero.

Óldo Erréve is the only name performing on both nights, each time on the DICE stage. Their piece, like those by AEDOSSYNTH and Inspiria, is listed in the schedule as a performance and is short: from 15 minutes to an hour.

Where the two stages overlap

The schedule is designed for moving from one stage to the other, and on Friday you can follow almost all of it. The clashes are short: ML Buch and Fennesz & Lillevan overlap for 35 minutes; Óldo Erréve's performance falls in the middle of Tortoise, and EAR finishes a quarter of an hour after Arca starts. The longest clash comes at 02:30, when DATAPUNK kicks off with Kavari already under way (they overlap for 45 minutes), and to finish you have to choose between the two DJ sets, which run simultaneously from start to finish.

Saturday is a different story. Max Cooper's two hours swallow almost all of ‘Makrophonie’, the new show that R-010 and Matteo Caro are presenting for the first time with stage design by PROXIMA, and most of the live set by Martin Rev, one half of Suicide: anyone who stays with Max Cooper until the end will catch the last fifteen minutes of Martin Rev. From midnight, the Iberian premiere of Nosaj Thing and Daito Manabe overlaps with half an hour of underscores and another quarter of an hour of Machine Girl, who in turn clashes with Debit for 30 minutes.

Early on Saturday it is also worth keeping an eye on the clock: Amore and Space Afrika share 25 minutes, and Nicola Cruz starts ten minutes before Space Afrika finishes.

How to get to Fira Montjuïc and back in the early hours

The public entrance is on avenida Maria Cristina, next to plaza de Espanya. The metro stop is Espanya, on lines L1 and L3, and the festival also lists bus routes 9, 13, 23, 27, 37, 46, 50, 65, 79, 91, 109, 150, 165, L80, L81, L87, L94, L95 and H12. The venue has a car park.

Getting home depends on the night. On its usual timetable, the Barcelona metro closes at 02:00 on the night from Friday into Saturday and reopens at 05:00, so anyone leaving when Arca finishes, at 02:15, will have no metro until 05:00; those who stay until closing, at 05:30, will find it open. On the night from Saturday into Sunday the metro runs non-stop.

There is another condition to bear in mind before planning your night: there is no re-entry, because of the special licence under which the festival is held. There is food inside, with vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options, and payment is by card only, with a cash area in case of problems. You can bring in a bottle of water without its cap and a sandwich.

Tickets and the warm-up events at sala Apolo

Tickets are sold only on DICE and remain on sale until 05:00 on Sunday 8. The two-day pass costs €117 and the day ticket €63, plus fees, with slightly lower prices if you buy two. Children aged up to 17 get in free when accompanied by their father, mother or legal guardian, who must have a ticket and sign a waiver at the entrance.

Ahead of the weekend, MIRA Week brings three events to sala Apolo, with separate admission: on Tuesday 3, from 17:00 to 22:00, the MIRA x SYNCRA visual artists' meet-up; on Wednesday 4, from 10:30 to 20:00, the MIRA.exe talks, both free with registration; and on Thursday 5 at 19:30, the Mouse on Mars concert with 360-degree immersive sound, for €17 plus fees.

The rest of the month's events, from Lion Rock to Monkey Week, are in our November festivals guide, and details of this edition are kept up to date on the MIRA Digital Arts Festival page.

Sources: official MIRA Festival website (stage times, FAQs, tickets, MIRA Week and news item of 21 October 2026) and Barcelona City Council (extended metro hours), consulted on 27 October 2026.