Little Forest Festival 2026 — festival guide
Kromrivier Farm, TBD, South Africa31 Dec – 2 Jan 2027 · 3 days73 days to go
At a glance
- Dates
- 31 Dec – 2 Jan 2027 (3 days)
- Location
- Kromrivier Farm, TBD, South Africa
- Sound
- Darkpsy · Psychedelic Trance
- Crowd
- around 1,100 people
- Tickets
- €55 · 1 tier tracked
- Nearest airport
- Not specified
- Nearest station
- Not specified
- Venue type
- Natural site
- Best nearby base
- Riviersonderend · 0 km · about 0 min
- On-site camping
- Not listed
The story
Little Forest Festival 2026-2027 is a psychedelic trance festival located at Kromrivier Farm near Riviersonderend, South Africa. The festival features immersive stage designs and extended psytrance sets within a vibrant dancefloor community. It takes place from December 31, 2026, at 10:00 AM to January 2, 2027, at 4:00 PM, in an outdoor setting that experiences hot daytime temperatures and cooler nights.
Little Forest Festival 2026 is a 3-day darkpsy, psychedelic trance festival at Kromrivier Farm in TBD, South Africa. The December 2026 edition runs 31 Dec – 2 Jan 2027. It draws around 1,100 people.
Expect stages split between Darkpsy and Psychedelic Trance.
At around 1,100 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 Kromrivier Farm, in TBD. Riviersonderend · 0 km · about 0 min is the organiser's practical nearby base for accommodation and transfers to the festival site.
Little Forest Festival 2026 keeps the same calendar slot each year: December 2026 for this edition, opening on a Thursday and closing on a Saturday. 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 TBD 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 Kromrivier Farm, Riviersonderend, Western Cape
- Takes place from December 31, 2026, to January 2, 2027
- Features immersive stage design and fire installations
- Focus on a tight-knit dancefloor culture
Venue, camping & access
- Venue type
- Natural site
- Best nearby base
- Riviersonderend · 0 km · about 0 min
- Camping
- No on-site camping is listed by the organiser.
- Getting to the gates
- The site is typically reached by car, with directions shared closer to the event.
What the trip costs from Paris
Ticket from
€55
Return transport
€1,100
air · 16h 4m each way
Place to stay
€96
Hostel / camping · 3 nights
Total door to door
€1,251
Door to door from Paris, a trip to Little Forest Festival 2026 works out at roughly €1,251 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 · 16h 4m each way, at €1,100 return.
See every ticket tier and travel option →Planning the trip, step by step
- 1Book the ticket first: tiers at Little Forest Festival 2026 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.
- 4If you fly into Not specified, check the transfer time to TBD before booking the earliest departure — the airport bus is usually the cheapest leg of the whole trip.
- 5Follow Little Forest Festival 2026 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 Little Forest Festival 2026 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
31 Dec – 2 Jan 2026 (approx.)
2024
31 Dec – 2 Jan 2025 (approx.)
2023
31 Dec – 2 Jan 2024 (approx.)
Travel tips from Paris
- Fly into Not specified, the closest airport to the site.
- Rail arrivals come through Not specified; shuttles usually run from there.
- The site itself is Kromrivier Farm, in TBD.
- The site is typically reached by car, with directions shared closer to the event.
- Book a bed in Riviersonderend early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.
- air16h 4m · €1,100