Festival dijadwalkan dari 26 Agu hingga 28 Agu 2016 (2 hari).
Reading Festival berlangsung di Reading, United Kingdom. Berikut adalah alamat lengkap festival: RG1 8EQ Reading
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Imagine Dragons, twenty one pilots, The 1975, Five Finger Death Punch, Fall Out Boy, LANY, The Neighbourhood, Machine Gun Kelly, Asking Alexandria, Parkway Drive, Coheed and Cambria, Third Eye Blind, Nothing but Thieves, Cage the Elephant, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Foals, Frank Turner, Highly Suspect, Sleeping with Sirens, Waterparks, Two Door Cinema Club, Stormzy, Nothing More, Clutch.
Genre dan sub-genre yang paling populer dari edisi sebelumnya adalah:
rock
electronic
hip hop
indie
alternative rock
indie rock
alternative
electronica
punk rock
grime
experimental
post-hardcore
emo
indie pop
dubstep
pop punk
house
rnb
pop rock