Mexico City will bid farewell to 2025 and welcome the New Year 2026 with a massive electronic music festival, which the city government promises will be “the largest electronic party in the world.” The event, organized by the Government of Mexico City through the Ministry of Culture, aims to “transform Paseo de la Reforma Avenue into a great open-air stage to bid farewell to the year and welcome the new cycle with music and dance,” according to the official communiqué. The free-entry event, with a lineup that mixes international names and national figures, will begin on Wednesday, December 31st, at 6:00 PM local time and end at 2:00 AM. In the promotional image, the Angel of Independence, the capital's most visited monument, appears at the center as a symbolic beacon: a monument illuminated with tones that seem to move between violet and turquoise, surrounded by a wavy grid, as if the air itself were curving with the pulse of the synthesizers. The Ministry of Culture detailed that the event will gather proposals “ranging from electro-pop, techno, synthwave, and electronic experimentation to urban sounds and contemporary fusions, such as tribal guarachero,” in a format “designed for all audiences,” in an attempt to reaffirm the capital's status “as a cultural and musical benchmark at a global level.” The list of artists includes the American band MGMT, Venezuelan Arca, the French artists Kavinsky and Jehnny Beth, as well as the Mexicans Mariana Bo, 3BallMTY (MÉX), Ramiro Puente and Vel, the latter being Franco-Mexican. “The New Year's Eve 2026 Party on Paseo de la Reaffirms the Government of Mexico City's commitment to free access to culture, the appropriation of public space as a meeting place for the arts and the public, and collective celebration as a way to build community,” added the city government in the note. It also issued an open call to citizens to “bid farewell to 2025 and receive 2026 by dancing, celebrating, and making history on one of the country's most emblematic avenues.” The announcement places Mexico City's main avenue, Paseo de la Reforma, as the central stage to welcome the New Year 2026 in the capital, a bet on public space as a point of mass gathering and electronic music as a common year-end language, with a lineup that crosses generations and geographies.
