Pohoda is an open-air summer music festival in Slovakia, first organised in 1997 in Trenčín. It is the biggest Slovak music event organized annually. The current venue is Trenčín Airport. The festival creates a unique celebration of freedom and tolerance, where the beautiful and varied cultures of the world can meet, communicate and share ideas. Pohoda takes place on the second weekend in July in Trenčín, Slovakia. Trenčín is situated 120 km from Bratislava and 190 km north-east of Vienna. The festival is based at a former military airfield in the valley of the river Vah, surrounded by three of the Western Carpathian Mountains.

The festival features alternative music, rock, pop, dance music, world music, house, techno, drum and bass, hip hop, but also theatre, discussions, chamber music, dance and literature workshops. The actual record-high attendance is 33,000 people/day from 2009. Since 2010 the festival capacity is limited to 30,000 visitors.

The first festival organized on 29 June 1997 was called “Kráľovská Pohoda”. It took place at the Trenčín town stadium. About 2,000 people attended the event but only 140 tickets were sold. Four Slovak, three Czech and one Russian bands played there.

From a visitor’s point of view, the festival area is easy to reach and provides an ideal and generously designed area for a limited capacity of 30,000 visitors. Forget about queuing for food or toilets, cramped camping or moving around the site in large crowds – the capacity is set in a way that ensures it is comfortable and open, to match the name of the festival.