Revolution NYE — festival guide

At a glance

Dates

30–30 Dec 2026 (1 day)

Location

Hornbill Lodge, Johannesburg, South Africa

Sound

EDM · Dance

Tickets

€40 – €55 · 2 tiers tracked

The story

Revolution NYE is a edm, dance festival at Hornbill Lodge in Johannesburg, South Africa. The December 2026 edition runs 30–30 Dec 2026.

Expect stages split between EDM and Dance.

Everything happens at Hornbill Lodge, in Johannesburg. Johannesburg 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.

Revolution NYE keeps the same calendar slot each year: December 2026 for this edition, opening on a Wednesday and closing on a Wednesday. 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 Johannesburg 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.

• 16th edition of the festival
• Date: 30 Dec 2026, 11:00
• Tickets range from R800 to R1100
• Venue: Hornbill Lodge, Magaliesburg, Gauteng

What the trip costs from Paris

Door to door from Paris, a trip to Revolution NYE works out at roughly €1,161 per person on the cheapest combination we track — a higher-budget weekend, mostly because of the travel leg.

The ticket is only 3% 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 €1,064 return.

Planning the trip, step by step

1. 1Book the ticket first: tiers at Revolution NYE 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 Revolution NYE 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

  30–30 Dec 2025 (approx.)

• 2024

  30–30 Dec 2024 (approx.)

• 2023

  30–30 Dec 2023 (approx.)

Travel tips from Paris

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

• air15h 37m · €1,064