For a second year, Kiwi songstress and finalist in The Voice Australia 2025 Cassie Henderson will help Auckland bring in the new year with her song ‘Seconds to Midnight’.
Seven songs make up the ‘midnight moment’ soundtrack, put together by More FM to synchronise with the Vector Lights lightshow on the Auckland Harbour Bridge and SkyCity’s fireworks display from the Sky Tower.
Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland is the first major international city to welcome in the New Year, and people will enjoy watching from vantage points all around the city.
Aucklanders can tune into the soundtrack live on More FM 91.8FM or via the Vector Lights website.
TVNZ 1 and TVNZ 2 will broadcast the New Year’s Eve countdown and midnight moment live, with the fireworks and projection show livestreamed on the SkyCity website, and a livestream of Vector Lights will also be available on Vector’s Facebook page.
The seven songs bringing in 2026 are:
- Cassie Henderson – Seconds to Midnight
- Huntr/x – Golden
- Coldplay – Sky Full of Stars
- Chappell Roan – Pink Pony Club
- Shapeshifter – Electric Dream
- Calvin Harris/Rihanna – This Is What You Came For
- Daft Punk – One More Time
For all details about where to watch, road closures, transport, and how to stay safe if you decide to travel into the city centre, please visit OurAuckland.
Sky Tower Fireworks
The five-minute fireworks display, which is the highest in the Southern Hemisphere, will feature 500 kilograms of fireworks, with 3,500 individual fireworks launched in a 360-degree pattern, reaching up to 80 metres above the tower (up to 240M above ground!)
And your memorable moments could be part of this year’s celebration! Share your favourite 2025 photo on SkyCity’s Facebook or Instagram post, and it could be selected to be projected onto the Sky Tower in the lead-up to the midnight fireworks.
Planning of the fireworks display started six months ago, with pre-production and programming of the firing field computers and address signal boxes. The installation of the equipment required for the big event will take 250+ hours and includes 14 kilometres of electrical cabling and wiring and 1500 lines of programming code.
Vector Lights
90,000 colour-changing LEDs on the Auckland Harbour Bridge will blackout before a pulsing effect counts down to the new year from 10 seconds to midnight. A dynamic and colourful display will burst on the bridge for the next five minutes and will replay every 15 minutes; last showing at 1.00am.
Vector Lights has been installed on the harbour bridge since 2018, showcasing Vector’s smart energy technology and innovation. 248 solar panels situated in Wynyard Quarter generate energy that is then stored in a Tesla Powerpack (battery) at the Jellicoe Street Car Park. Smart meters at the battery site and on the bridge relay data between each other every 10 seconds, ensuring the energy used to power Vector Lights is released back into the energy grid (peer-to-peer system).
