AUM New Year’s Festival — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

31 Dec – 2 Jan 2028 (3 days)

Location

Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Sound

House · Drum and bass · Techno · Psytrance · Rock · Folk

Tickets

€101 – €140 · 2 tiers tracked

The story

AUM New Year’s Festival is a 3-day house, drum and bass, techno, psytrance, rock, folk festival at Auckland in Auckland, New Zealand. The December 2027 edition runs 31 Dec – 2 Jan 2028.

Expect stages split between House, Drum and bass, Techno, Psytrance, Rock and Folk.

Everything happens at Auckland, in Auckland. Auckland is the base for the trip: it is where the affordable beds, the late trains and the after-parties are, and where prices climb fastest as the dates approach.

AUM New Year’s Festival keeps the same calendar slot each year: December 2027 for this edition, opening on a Friday and closing on a Sunday. It is a winter date, so indoor stages and a warm place to sleep matter more than they would in July — and off-season travel is often cheaper. That slot matters for the budget — flights and rooms in Auckland are priced for the festival weekend, not the week around it, so shifting your arrival by a day often saves more than any ticket tier does.

What the trip costs from Paris

Door to door from Paris, a trip to AUM New Year’s Festival works out at roughly €2,408 per person on the cheapest combination we track — a higher-budget weekend, mostly because of the travel leg.

The ticket is only 4% of that: the rest is getting there and sleeping somewhere, which is exactly the part most ticket sites leave out.

Cheapest travel we price is air · 29h 15m each way, at €2,160 return.

Planning the trip, step by step

1. 1Book the ticket first: tiers at AUM New Year’s Festival are sold in waves and the cheapest wave is gone long before the line-up is complete.
2. 2Then price the travel from Paris — Cinderella compares train, bus, car and flight for the same dates, and the cheapest option is not always the obvious one.
3. 3Reserve 4 nights rather than 3: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
4. 4Follow AUM New Year’s Festival on Cinderella to be emailed when a ticket price drops or a new tier opens.

Full line-up

Ordered as the poster reads it — headliners first, then most booked to least. Each name opens that artist's festival dates.

Past editions

Dates are the event's recurring calendar slot, so treat them as approximate — the organiser keeps the official archive.

• 2026

  31 Dec – 2 Jan 2027 (approx.)

• 2025

  31 Dec – 2 Jan 2026 (approx.)

• 2024

  31 Dec – 2 Jan 2025 (approx.)

Travel tips from Paris

• The site itself is Auckland, in Auckland.
• Book a bed in Auckland early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.

• air29h 15m · €2,160