Countdown NYE — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

31 Dec – 1 Jan 2027 (2 days)

Location

NOS Events Center, San Bernardino, United States

Sound

Electronic · Dance

Tickets

€230 · 1 tier tracked

The story

Countdown NYE is a 2-day electronic, dance festival at NOS Events Center in San Bernardino, United States. The December 2026 edition runs 31 Dec – 1 Jan 2027.

Expect stages split between Electronic and Dance.

Everything happens at NOS Events Center, in San Bernardino. San Bernardino 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.

Countdown NYE keeps the same calendar slot each year: December 2026 for this edition, opening on a Thursday and closing on a Friday. 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 San Bernardino 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 Countdown NYE works out at roughly €1,480 per person on the cheapest combination we track — a higher-budget weekend, mostly because of the travel leg.

The ticket is only 16% 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 · 16h 3m each way, at €1,098 return.

Planning the trip, step by step

1. 1Book the ticket first: tiers at Countdown NYE 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 3 nights rather than 2: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
4. 4Follow Countdown NYE 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.

• 2025

  31 Dec – 1 Jan 2026 (approx.)

• 2024

  31 Dec – 1 Jan 2025 (approx.)

• 2023

  31 Dec – 1 Jan 2024 (approx.)

Travel tips from Paris

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

• air16h 3m · €1,098