Basel scene guide
Basel scene guide — find your venue by sound. The venues, promoters and artists shaping Basel’s electronic scene.
Busiest venues
How big is Basel’s electronic scene?
Over the last 12 months soundcheck tracked 339 club nights across 54 venues in Basel, featuring 422 artists. Every listing carries the line-up, times and venue — see what’s on in Basel tonight.
Which Basel venues have the most club nights?
Counted over the trailing 12 months of listings:
What time do Basel club nights actually start and end?
From the 339 listings publishing door times: the median Basel night opens at 23:00 — 31% open before 22:00, 68% between 22:00 and midnight, and 1% after midnight. Of the 25 listings publishing a close time, the median close is 02:00, 44% run past 04:00 and 32% go to 06:00 or later.
When does Basel go out?
Saturday is the biggest night (48% of all listings); Friday and Saturday together carry 87% of the week. The busiest month of the year is May.
What does Basel sound like?
By share of genre tags across the year’s line-ups: Techno 31% · House 29% · Electronica 9% · Tech House 8% · Trance 7% · Deep House 6%. Genre-by-genre venue picks are in the routes above.
All figures derived from soundcheck’s listings database over the trailing 365 days; updated with each rebuild.
Artists to watch
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