Baia Sardinia · 2026

Phi Beach 2026: forty-five nights at the fortress

Phi Beach's 2026 season is a published, fixed thing: 45 nights between 17 July and 12 September, on the rocks of Forte Cappellini above Baia Sardinia. The venue has run there since 2008. This is what the season actually is, stated plainly.

The fortress

Phi Beach is built into the cliffs of a nineteenth-century fortress — beach club and restaurant through sunset, open-air club after, with a saltwater pool, a free-form dance floor and a smaller room called the Rock Club. For 2026 the production is new: an L-Acoustics sound system, Claypaky lighting, and video mapping projected onto the rock face itself.

The 2026 lineup

The announced headline sets: Black Coffee on three dates, Fisher, Peggy Gou, Seth Troxler and Dennis Cruz. Black Coffee's three nights are the calendar's anchor — the same name, three separate evenings, the only headliner announced for more than one date.

Why the dates decide everything

Forty-five nights between 17 July and 12 September makes a dense calendar, not a continuous one. Twenty-nine of those nights run back-to-back through August; the rest sit around that run. In practice, August is close to a nightly fact, while in July and September a given evening may or may not be a club night. With stay dates already fixed, the first check is which of the forty-five nights fall inside them — and whether one carries a headline name.

The practical frame is equally fixed: entry is ticketed through tickets.phibeach.com, club tables are reserved separately, and the venue is cashless. On headline nights, tables and daybeds sell out — the Black Coffee, Fisher and Peggy Gou dates especially. For those evenings, the table is settled when the ticket is, not on arrival.

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Phi Beach 2026: forty-five nights at the fortress — Sardinia Society