Northern Bass — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

30–31 Dec 2026 (2 days)

Location

N/A, Raglan, New Zealand

Sound

Electronic

Tickets

€140 · 1 tier tracked

The story

Northern Bass is a 2-day electronic festival at N/A in Raglan, New Zealand. The December 2026 edition runs 30–31 Dec 2026.

Everything happens at N/A, in Raglan. Raglan 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.

Northern Bass keeps the same calendar slot each year: December 2026 for this edition, opening on a Wednesday 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 Raglan 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 Northern Bass works out at roughly €2,395 per person on the cheapest combination we track — a higher-budget weekend, mostly because of the travel leg.

The ticket is only 6% 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 · 29h 24m each way, at €2,171 return.

Planning the trip, step by step

1. 1Book the ticket first: tiers at Northern Bass 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 3 nights rather than 2: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
4. 4Follow Northern Bass 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

  30–31 Dec 2025 (approx.)

• 2024

  30–31 Dec 2024 (approx.)

• 2023

  30–31 Dec 2023 (approx.)

Travel tips from Paris

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

• air29h 24m · €2,171