Parklands Festival — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

14–14 Nov 2026 (1 day)

Location

Parklands, Auckland, New Zealand

Sound

Electronic · Drum & Bass · House

Tickets

€83 · 1 tier tracked

The story

Parklands Festival is a electronic, drum & bass, house festival at Parklands in Auckland, New Zealand. The November 2026 edition runs 14–14 Nov 2026.

Expect stages split between Electronic, Drum & Bass and House.

Everything happens at Parklands, in Auckland. Auckland 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.

Parklands Festival keeps the same calendar slot each year: November 2026 for this edition, opening on a Saturday and closing on a Saturday. It falls in autumn, after the summer circuit closes, when flights and rooms come back down in price. That slot matters for the budget — flights and rooms in Auckland 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 Parklands Festival works out at roughly €2,304 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 · 29h 15m each way, at €2,160 return.

Planning the trip, step by step

1. 1Book the ticket first: tiers at Parklands 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 Parklands 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

  14–14 Nov 2025 (approx.)

• 2024

  14–14 Nov 2024 (approx.)

• 2023

  14–14 Nov 2023 (approx.)

Travel tips from Paris

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

• air29h 15m · €2,160