Hilltop NYE Festival — festival guide
Hilltop Grounds, Goa, India30 Dec – 1 Jan 2027 · 3 days72 days to go
At a glance
- Dates
- 30 Dec – 1 Jan 2027 (3 days)
- Location
- Hilltop Grounds, Goa, India
- Sound
- Psytrance
- Crowd
- around 999 people
- Tickets
- €11 · 1 tier tracked
The story
HillTop NYE Festival 2026 – 2027 is a multi-day music festival held at Hilltop Goa, India, featuring a curated mix of international and local artists alongside art installations and food vendors. The festival begins on December 30, 2026, at 10:00 am and concludes on January 1, 2027, at 7:00 pm. The atmosphere is characterized by generally warm days and cooler evenings, making it suited for outdoor festivities.
Hilltop NYE Festival is a 3-day psytrance festival at Hilltop Grounds in Goa, India. The December 2026 edition runs 30 Dec – 1 Jan 2027. It draws around 999 people.
At around 999 attendees it stays on the intimate side, which usually means shorter bar queues and a crowd that is there for the music rather than the spectacle. Everything happens at Hilltop Grounds, in Goa. Goa 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.
Hilltop NYE Festival keeps the same calendar slot each year: December 2026 for this edition, opening on a Wednesday 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 Goa 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.
- Held at Hilltop Goa, India
- Starts on December 30, 2026
- Ends on January 1, 2027
- Features art installations and food vendors
- Tickets priced at INR 999
What the trip costs from Paris
Ticket from
€11
Return transport
€87
bus · 12h 44m each way
Place to stay
€105
Hostel / camping · 3 nights
Total door to door
€203
Door to door from Paris, a trip to Hilltop NYE Festival works out at roughly €203 per person on the cheapest combination we track — one of the more affordable weekends in our index.
The ticket is only 5% 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 bus · 12h 44m each way, at €87 return.
See every ticket tier and travel option →Planning the trip, step by step
- 1Book the ticket first: tiers at Hilltop NYE Festival are sold in waves and the cheapest wave is gone long before the line-up is complete.
- 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.
- 3Reserve 4 nights rather than 3: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
- 4Follow Hilltop NYE 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.
The organiser hasn't published the line-up for Hilltop NYE Festival yet. It appears here — with a page for every artist — as soon as names are confirmed.
Past editions
Dates are the event's recurring calendar slot, so treat them as approximate — the organiser keeps the official archive.
2025
30 Dec – 1 Jan 2026 (approx.)
2024
30 Dec – 1 Jan 2025 (approx.)
2023
30 Dec – 1 Jan 2024 (approx.)
Travel tips from Paris
- The site itself is Hilltop Grounds, in Goa.
- Book a bed in Goa early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.
- bus12h 44m · €87
- air4h 29m · €169
- car10h 26m · €214
- train7h 10m · €219