This interactive map lets you compare Glastonbury’s site size with anywhere in the world

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Glastonbury‘s site size with anywhere in the world.Manchester-based programmer Geoffrey Prytherch has created the tool, which allows users to enter a post code to the Glastonbury Map Overlap and see how walking across the festival site would compare to a neighbourhood walk.The approximately 900-acre Somerset site was found to trump other festivals around the world in sheer size including Coachella (642 acres), Leeds (600 acres) and Reading (100 acres).

You can test out the map here.Prytherch, who emphasised that the map “is in no way affiliated with Glastonbury Festival” on his website, decided to build the interactive tool when an older, similar website “suddenly disappeared”, according to his blog. “I took it upon myself to reverse engineer it to keep it alive for everyone else,” he added.Vivo Glastonbury 2024 .

Paramotoring over the site the day before the gates open @paramotoring #launchitparamotoring @festival @vivobarefoot @glastonburyfestival2024Posted by Launch-It Paramotoring on Sunday, June 23, 2024Meanwhile, pictures from the above the site were shared by James Pearce, a Somerset-based paraglider, who took to the skies 1000ft above Worthy Farm over the weekend.

You can view the images above.He told BBC News.”It’s immense up there. People don’t see the scale of it – that’s why I do it.”Elsewhere, the bar prices at Glastonbury 2024 have been shared online, with the average pint of beer or cider on site set at £6.75 with Stonewall Inn IPA topping the price range at £7 and Otter Ale coming in at the cheapest at £6.50 a pint.