New Year’s At The Bowl — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

31–31 Dec 2026 (1 day)

Location

Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne, Australia

Sound

electronic · dance · disco

Tickets

€114 – €240 · 3 tiers tracked

The story

New Year’s At The Bowl is a electronic, dance, disco festival at Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne, Australia. The December 2026 edition runs 31–31 Dec 2026.

Expect stages split between electronic, dance and disco.

Everything happens at Sidney Myer Music Bowl, in Melbourne. Melbourne 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.

New Year’s At The Bowl 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 Melbourne 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 New Year’s At The Bowl works out at roughly €2,181 per person on the cheapest combination we track — a higher-budget weekend, mostly because of the travel leg.

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 air · 26h 49m each way, at €1,964 return.

Planning the trip, step by step

1. 1Book the ticket first: tiers at New Year’s At The Bowl 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 New Year’s At The Bowl 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 Sidney Myer Music Bowl, in Melbourne.
• Book a bed in Melbourne early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.

• air26h 49m · €1,964