Houston Rodeo Schedule: Your Guide to the 2027 Season

Houston Rodeo 2027 key dates

A typical day at the Houston Rodeo

Each performance pairs a full rodeo with a concert on the rotating Star Stage. Gates and start times depend on whether it’s a weekday or a weekend:

Times shown are the 2026 schedule; RODEOHOUSTON confirms 2027 times with the lineup. Concert start times shift slightly depending on how the rodeo runs. The carnival, livestock show and grounds open earlier and run all day. For gate times, kickoff week and how early to arrive, see when the Houston Rodeo starts.

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The 2027 performance calendar: all 20 nights

Every performance is a full rodeo followed by a headline concert on the Star Stage. The 2027 run opens on a Tuesday and closes on a Sunday, which gives it three full weekends. Weeknight performances start at 6:45 p.m. (gates 6:00); Saturday and Sunday performances start at 2:45 p.m. (gates 2:00). Entertainers are added to each date when the lineup is announced in January.

Each Tickets button opens that performance on StubHub, which already has a page for every 2027 date. Before the lineup is out you are buying a date, not an act: if the act matters to you, wait for early January; if the date is what matters (spring break, a birthday, Go Tejano Day), there is no reason to wait. We may earn a commission when you buy through these links, at no extra cost to you.

RODEOHOUSTON announced the 2027 special days on September 9, 2026, and they are marked in the calendar above: Opening Day (March 2), Armed Forces Appreciation Day (March 3), Black Heritage Day (March 5), First Responders Day (March 8), Community Day (March 10), Volunteer Appreciation Day (March 11) and Go Tejano Day (Sunday, March 14). Go Tejano Day is historically one of the two or three biggest-demand performances of the entire run, whoever is on the stage. Wednesdays also bring discounted carnival rides, games and food (the Rodeo’s Family Wednesday deals), and on Community Day every guest gets free grounds admission until noon. On Armed Forces Appreciation Day, active-duty members in uniform with a current military ID, spouses of deployed members and veterans get free park admission for themselves and four family members, and on First Responders Day, first responders with a badge get free grounds admission for themselves and four family members (rodeo and concert tickets are sold separately).

How the 2027 lineup and individual tickets will drop

The Rodeo's calendar has run the same way for years, and the 2026 cycle is the best guide to what January 2027 will look like:

• August 4, 2026: 2027 season tickets went on sale (already past). Season ticket holders have had their seats locked since then.
• Early January 2027: lineup reveal. In 2026 the full entertainer lineup was announced on Thursday, January 8. Expect the 2027 reveal in the same window. This is the day demand for specific nights is born: before it, a night is just a date; after it, it is a headliner.
• About a week later: individual tickets on sale. In 2026 that was Thursday, January 15, sold in two waves by date range (first half of the run at 10 a.m., second half at 2 p.m.) through online waiting rooms with random entry. Standard tickets started at $35 including the convenience fee. Headliner nights sold through in minutes, and resale listings appeared the same hour.
• Late February: kickoff week. The World’s Championship Bar-B-Que Contest runs February 25–27. Rodeo Roundup & Go Texan Day and the trail rides’ arrival are Friday, February 26, and the Rodeo Run and Downtown Rodeo Parade are Saturday, February 27, with longtime Rodeo announcer Bob Tallman as the parade’s grand marshal. Opening Day is Tuesday, March 2.

We publish the 2027 lineup here within hours of the announcement, mapped to the dates above, with a read on which nights will move first.

What a seat is actually worth: the Reliant Stadium ladder

Price on the resale market is set by two things: the night (headliner, weekend, special day) and the level. From the dirt up:

• Chute Seats, Stage Left and Action Seats: the premium tier. Stage Left is the front rows of section 138 at the south end, and Stage Left and Chute Seats both include the Champions Club. The scarcest inventory in the building and the first to be bought on a headliner night.
• Field level (100s): the core of the resale market. Center sideline sections carry a clear premium over the corners and end sections.
• Club level (300s): sideline and end-zone seats with upscale food and drink and access to four themed bars. At face they are the priciest standard seats, $76 to $81 per performance for 2027 including fees, against $71 on the Field Level.
• Loge (500s) and Upper (600s): the volume seats and the cheapest way in, at $35 to $54 per performance for 2027 including fees. Resale prices here rise and fall with the headliner and the day.

Section-by-section detail is in our Houston Rodeo seating chart, and what moves resale prices night by night is in what Houston Rodeo tickets sell for.

Season ticket holder? January is your decision week

A 2027 season ticket is 20 performances, and almost nobody goes to all of them. The lineup reveal is when holders decide which nights to keep and which to sell, and the sellers who do best are the ones who decide that week, not in March. Three things to know:

• Be listed the week of the reveal. Buyers who miss the waiting room go straight to resale. The first offer on a marquee night is rarely the best one: demand keeps building through February, and most nights convert once the Bar-B-Que Contest kicks off.
• Headliner nights price themselves; weeknights need a hand. Mondays and most Tuesdays are the soft slots, and they reward active pricing as the night gets closer rather than a set-and-forget number.
• You keep the seats, the nights you want, and your renewal. We list the nights you release across every major marketplace at once, price each one by hand, handle the transfer, and pay every Friday. The 20% commission applies only when a night sells, and a season ticket holder's first sale with us is commission-free.

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Buying for 2027: when it pays to wait and when it doesn't

Headliner weekends and Go Tejano Day do not get cheaper; if you want a specific night, buy it in the week tickets go on sale. Weeknight non-headliner performances are the opposite: supply stays loose and prices usually soften in the final days before the show. Whatever you buy, buy only through channels that deliver a verified digital transfer into your account; the Rodeo runs on mobile tickets and a screenshot will not scan. Our Houston Rodeo buyers guide covers the rest, and the rodeo map covers parking and getting in.

The RODEOHOUSTON Super Series

The rodeo itself is a 20-day, tournament-style competition in eight events: bareback riding, saddle bronc riding, bull riding, tie-down roping, steer wrestling, team roping, barrel racing and breakaway roping. Five three-day Super Series feed two semifinal rounds and two wild card rounds, and the top 10 in each event meet at the RODEOHOUSTON Championship on Sunday, March 21, 2027. Each event champion takes home $65,000 plus earlier round winnings, a custom-made saddle and belt buckle, and an invitation back the following year; the total purse is $2,533,500. The livestock show, carnival and grounds run all day, every day of the run, separately from the stadium performance.

The 2027 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo runs March 2–21, 2027 at Reliant Stadium (formerly NRG Stadium): 20 days of rodeo, each with a headline concert. The concert lineup is announced in early January 2027 and single-night tickets go on sale about a week later; season tickets went on sale August 4, 2026. Headliner nights command the highest prices.