When the gates to one of the world's largest music festival, Glastonbury, opened to 135,000 music fans, the race to secure the perfect camping spot began.

Campers started hauling their tents but won't be expecting to "mudsurf" over the weekend as weather will be warm and mostly dry but Thursday and Friday weather will be cloudy and showery.

But overall, "the weather looks set to be kind to festival goers," as reported by the national weather service, The Met.

The Glastonbury Festival is a five-day musical event organized by farmer Michael Eavis at Worthy Farm in south west England in the 1970s. It has grown to become one of the largest major music festivals in the world attended by around 150,000 fans including famous celebrities. He now runs Glastonbury with his daughter, Emily.

This year's festival happens on June 26 to 30 with more than 2,000 acts set to perform across 58 stages. The Rolling Stones, who are celebrating their 50th year, will headline the event. Other artists who are expected to perform are the Arctic Monkeys, Elvis Costello, Vampire Weekend, Primal Scream, Portis Head, Dizzee Rascal and Ben Howard.

Fans can still expect for Mumford & Sons to close the festival. The band's bassist Ted Dwane was released earlier this month after a successful brain surgery.

"There's always a wishlist, and only the best bands are on it - about 20 of 'em. And we've been ticking 'em off and ticking 'em off. The Rolling Stones were the only ones that were left," Eavis said.