New Years at the Bowl — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

31–31 Dec 2026 (1 day)

Location

Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne, Australia

Sound

Electronic · Hip-Hop · Pop · Reggae

Crowd

around 10,000 people

Tickets

€90 · 1 tier tracked

Nearest airport

Melbourne Airport

Nearest station

Flinders Street Station

Venue type

Festival site

Best nearby base

Melbourne · 0 km · about 0 min

On-site camping

Not listed

Line-up announced

13 artists so far

The story

New Years at the Bowl is set to take place on December 31, 2026, at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne, Australia. The event features a lineup of artists including Major Lazer, Flight Facilities, and Miami Horror. This festival is known for its vibrant atmosphere and diverse musical offerings. The Sidney Myer Music Bowl has a capacity of 10,000.

New Years at the Bowl is a electronic, hip-hop, pop, reggae festival at Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne, Australia. The December 2026 edition runs 31–31 Dec 2026. It draws around 10,000 people.

Announced so far: Major Lazer, DJ Seinfeld, Flight Facilities, Miami Horror, Todd Terje, Helena Hauff, CC:Disco! and Close Counters and 5 more. Expect stages split between Electronic, Hip-Hop, Pop and Reggae.

At around 10,000 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 Sidney Myer Music Bowl, in Melbourne. Melbourne · 0 km · about 0 min is the organiser's practical nearby base for accommodation and transfers to the festival site.

New Years 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.

• Artists include Major Lazer, Flight Facilities, and Miami Horror.
• The venue is Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne.
• Event date is December 31, 2026.
• Capacity of the venue is 10,000.

Venue, camping & access

Venue type

Festival site

Best nearby base

Melbourne · 0 km · about 0 min

Camping

No on-site camping is listed by the organiser.

Getting to the gates

Public transport options available, and the venue is within walking distance from the city.

What the trip costs from Paris

Door to door from Paris, a trip to New Years at the Bowl works out at roughly €2,238 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 · 26h 49m each way, at €1,964 return.

Planning the trip, step by step

1. 1Book the ticket first: tiers at New Years 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. 4If you fly into Melbourne Airport, check the transfer time to Melbourne before booking the earliest departure — the airport bus is usually the cheapest leg of the whole trip.
5. 5Follow New Years at the Bowl on Cinderella to be emailed when a ticket price drops or a new tier opens.

Line-up, day by day

• Day 1 — Thursday 31 December

  Major Lazer, DJ Seinfeld, Flight Facilities, Miami Horror, Todd Terje, Helena Hauff, CC:Disco!, Close Counters, Don West, Milo Eastwood, Mzrizk, Surusinghe, Yung Singh

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.)

  Regulars: Major Lazer, DJ Seinfeld, Flight Facilities

• 2024

  31–31 Dec 2024 (approx.)

  Regulars: DJ Seinfeld, Flight Facilities, Miami Horror

• 2023

  31–31 Dec 2023 (approx.)

  Regulars: Flight Facilities, Miami Horror, Todd Terje

Travel tips from Paris

• Fly into Melbourne Airport, the closest airport to the site.
• Rail arrivals come through Flinders Street Station; shuttles usually run from there.
• The site itself is Sidney Myer Music Bowl, in Melbourne.
• Public transport options available, and the venue is within walking distance from the city.
• Book a bed in Melbourne early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.

• air26h 49m · €1,964