Made in Jozi NYE Festival — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

31–31 Dec 2026 (1 day)

Location

Maracanã, Sandton, South Africa

Sound

Amapiano · Afro-house · Hip-Hop

Tickets

€117 · 1 tier tracked

The story

Made in Jozi NYE Festival is a amapiano, afro-house, hip-hop festival at Maracanã in Sandton, South Africa. The December 2026 edition runs 31–31 Dec 2026.

Expect stages split between Amapiano, Afro-house and Hip-Hop.

Everything happens at Maracanã, in Sandton. Sandton 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.

Made in Jozi NYE Festival keeps the same calendar slot each year: December 2026 for this edition, opening on a Thursday and closing on a Thursday. 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 Sandton 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 Made in Jozi NYE Festival works out at roughly €1,244 per person on the cheapest combination we track — a higher-budget weekend, mostly because of the travel leg.

The ticket is only 9% 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 · 15h 37m each way, at €1,063 return.

Planning the trip, step by step

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

Past editions

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

• 2025

  31–31 Dec 2025 (approx.)

• 2024

  31–31 Dec 2024 (approx.)

• 2023

  31–31 Dec 2023 (approx.)

Travel tips from Paris

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

• air15h 37m · €1,063