Which US cities are cheapest for seeing a touring show?
Across more than 100 US tours tracked in autumn 2026, the lowest listed resale price in Pittsburgh, Nashville and Miami was below the tour's typical price on both Vivid Seats and TicketNetwork in both September and October. New York and San Francisco were above it every time.
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Where you see a tour can matter as much as when. TourTicketCompare keeps a daily record of the lowest listed resale price for the shows it tracks. For each US tour with five or more priced dates, it compared every city's price with the tour's typical show price, then looked at which cities came in cheaper or dearer across many tours.
Three cities came in below the tour's typical price on both sites and in both months checked: Pittsburgh, Nashville and Miami. Two came in above it every time: New York and San Francisco.
The cities
October 2026, for US shows after that month. The figure is how far the city's price typically sat from the tour's typical show price. "Tours" is how many tours played that city. Each site is compared only with itself.
City
Vivid Seats tours
Vivid Seats vs tour
TicketNetwork tours
TicketNetwork vs tour
Cleveland
13
−9.6%
17
−9.5%
Kansas City
20
−6.5%
22
−9.6%
Pittsburgh
20
−6.1%
23
−9.8%
Detroit
27
−5.6%
32
−10.5%
Miami
13
−6.8%
16
−5.5%
Nashville
39
−4.7%
42
−9.2%
Indianapolis
17
−5.0%
18
−3.0%
New York
53
+2.8%
56
+3.3%
Minneapolis
17
+2.2%
25
+5.9%
Portland
26
+8.6%
31
+11.4%
San Francisco
36
+2.8%
41
+14.7%
Salt Lake City
16
+18.3%
16
+25.1%
In September 2026, with fewer tours, Pittsburgh, Nashville and Miami were again cheaper on both sites, and New York and San Francisco were again dearer. Cleveland, Kansas City and Salt Lake City had too few tours that month to check. Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, Atlanta and Las Vegas sat close to the tour's typical price.
The October readings cover 105 tours and 1,651 shows on Vivid Seats and 116 tours and 1,849 shows on TicketNetwork. No single tour made up more than about 3% of shows.
What this does and doesn't say
It is the typical pattern, not every tour. Even in the cheapest cities, some tours were dearer than elsewhere. Check the dates for the tour you want.
It is the lowest listed price, not every seat. Venue size and layout differ by city, and a cheaper figure can mean more cheap seats were listed.
Nearby venues count with their metro. For example, Inglewood counts as Los Angeles, and Brooklyn and East Rutherford count as New York.
It is resale, not face value, and a listed price is not a checkout total. Fees, delivery and seat location differ between listings and between sites.
It compares listed prices as each site gave them. TourTicketCompare has not confirmed how each site builds a listed price, and price-display rules can differ by state, so part of a city's gap could come from how prices are shown rather than what tickets cost.
It does not include travel. A cheaper ticket in another city can cost more once you add the trip.
The method: for each show, TourTicketCompare took the middle daily lowest listed price across the month on one site. For each tour, it divided each city's price by the tour's middle show price, then took the middle of those figures across every tour that played the city. Cities needed 12 or more tours in October (10 in September). Prices below $5 or above $1,200 were left out as placeholders or outliers.
For a single tour, the same tour, different city report names the cheapest and dearest city for each artist. For the current listed price of any show, with the time it was checked, open the artist's page.
Across about 1,200 US concerts tracked daily from September to early November 2026, the lowest listed resale price was unchanged on most days, but at 47% to 68% of shows (depending on the site) it moved by a fifth or more overnight at least once. At 18% to 28% of shows the highest daily low was at least double the lowest.
TourTicketCompare compared the lowest listed resale price for 1,072 upcoming US concert dates in early October and early November 2026, each site against itself. Falls outnumbered rises 1,201 to 621. Greta Van Fleet and Gracie Abrams dates fell most; John Summit and Don Omar dates rose.
Across 1,608 US concerts on newly listed tours in autumn 2026, the lowest listed resale price two weeks after TourTicketCompare first recorded it was lower at 49% of shows and higher at 24%. Prices fell about twice as often as they rose, but there was no fall at half the shows.
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