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In 2024, thousands of festivals have enriched the cultural calendar with a great diversity of forms, fields and duration. Mega music festivals gathering more than 30,000 festival goers to more modest events around books and literature, for example, the festival landscape is diverse, varied and contrasting. The Ministry of Culture’s Festival Barometer allows us to grasp their diversity through several indicators: programming domain, seasonality, age, festival duration, capacity, programming arrangements (outdoors or indoors, on a single site, one or several stages, for example), the financial result of the 2024 edition, economic and social issues and challenges. In 2024, nearly 2,000 festivals responded to the barometric survey, which allows a portrait to emerge of this essential activity for cultural life in France. Live performance occupies a central place in the festival universe and brings together nearly two-thirds of the festivals, including 46% music festivals and 21% non-music live performances: street arts, theatre, dance, circus. However, there are historical festivals in all other fields, and their renewal is measured against apost-pandemic creative dynamic: whereas more than two-thirds of festivals have been created since 2000, more than one in ten festivals were created after 2019. In 2024, more than half of the festivals observe an increase in their artistic and technical expenses. Moreover, nearly half of the festivals record increased ticket sales receipts. In total, more than four in ten festivals record a negative result, a situation which varies across fields, with film festivals seeming less affected for example. Societal commitments are at the heart of the concerns of festival organisers: more than seven out of ten festivals declare integrating sustainable development goals among their priorities and three-quarters of music festivals are actively involved in tackling sexist and sexual violence and harassment. Finally, despite these economic difficulties, more than eight out of ten festivals intend to hold an edition in 2025, which demonstrates the vitality of the festival phenomenon in France.