U2 has set the first dates of its U2 Tour 2027, with The Greatest Show On Earth World Tour opening in Mexico City on February 23, 2027. The run will stay in Latin America for three cities only in the first wave of shows, with São Paulo and Buenos Aires also on the calendar, and Beck set to support on the announced dates.
For fans waiting for a clear line on when the band returns to the road, this is it. Tickets go on presale through U2.com Subscriber Presale beginning Monday, October 19, 2026 at 10am local time and ending Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 10pm local, giving buyers a narrow window before the first stadium dates land next year. The announcement also confirms that the tour is being built as a stadium-scale return, after U2's last stadium dates at DY Patil Stadium on December 15, 2019.
The first confirmed shows are spread across three Latin American cities, with a second Mexico City date at Estadio GNP Seguros, two nights at Estádio MorumBIS in São Paulo, and two at Estadio River Plate in Buenos Aires. U2 tied the tour to its forthcoming 16th studio album, Carnaval De Luz, and paired the news with The Greatest Show On Earth, a new track co-written with Brian Eno and released with a video directed by Anton Corbijn and shot in the Californian desert.
The piece that keeps this from feeling finished is the part U2 has not filled in yet: more 2027 dates for Europe and North America are promised for the coming weeks, and the band says a return home to Ireland is in the works. That leaves the Latin American leg as the opening move, not the whole map, even as the group leans back into stadiums for the first time since a run that ended in 2019 and reached almost 3 million fans worldwide.
What comes next is simple enough to name and still worth watching closely. The first tickets will move on October 19, and the next round of tour dates should show whether U2 Tour 2027 is a regional opening or the start of a much wider rollout.
