High Tide — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

7–7 Nov 2026 (1 day)

Location

Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Sound

Electronic · Drum & Bass

The story

High Tide is a electronic, drum & bass festival at Wellington in Wellington, New Zealand. The November 2026 edition runs 7–7 Nov 2026.

Expect stages split between Electronic and Drum & Bass.

Everything happens at Wellington, in Wellington. Wellington 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.

High Tide keeps the same calendar slot each year: November 2026 for this edition, opening on a Saturday and closing on a Saturday. It falls in autumn, after the summer circuit closes, when flights and rooms come back down in price. That slot matters for the budget — flights and rooms in Wellington 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 High Tide works out at roughly €2,296 per person on the cheapest combination we track — a higher-budget weekend, mostly because of the travel leg.

No ticket price is published for this edition yet, so the total below covers travel and a bed only. It updates automatically as soon as the organiser opens sales.

Cheapest travel we price is air · 29h 52m each way, at €2,209 return.

Planning the trip, step by step

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

  7–7 Nov 2025 (approx.)

• 2024

  7–7 Nov 2024 (approx.)

• 2023

  7–7 Nov 2023 (approx.)

Travel tips from Paris

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

• air29h 52m · €2,209