Shawn Mendes has not announced any concerts in Australia or New Zealand for 2027. As of 9 October 2026 there is no tour, no festival booking and no one-off show listed for the region. His most recent tour, the On the Road Again Tour, played 20 shows in Europe and North America between 2 August and 17 October 2025, and no further dates have been published since.
Australian and New Zealand audiences know him well all the same. Between 2016 and 2019 Mendes came here three times, rising from two nights at Sydney's Enmore Theatre to a full arena tour that included three sold-out nights at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne and two at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney. His last concert in the region was at Spark Arena in Auckland on Saturday 9 November 2019.
This page sets out what is and is not known about his plans for 2027, then tells the story of his 16 headline concerts in Australia and New Zealand, the songs he played, and the records that took him from theatre stages to sold-out arenas.
There is no official Shawn Mendes tour of Australia or New Zealand in 2027. No dates, cities, venues, presales or on-sale times have been published, and no Australian or New Zealand promoter has listed him. No 2027 concert has been announced anywhere else in the world either.
His touring since 2019 explains the long gap. Wonder: The World Tour, planned for 2022 to promote his fourth album Wonder, was cancelled that year so that he could look after his mental health. After a break he returned with the small-scale For Friends and Family Only Tour in 2024, around his fifth album Shawn, and then the On the Road Again Tour in 2025, which opened in Pristina, Kosovo, and ended in Los Angeles. Neither went to Oceania.
That means it has now been almost seven years since Mendes last played in Australia or New Zealand. On his past record, a return would come as part of a wider world tour, as in 2017 and 2019; but no such tour has been announced, and nothing about 2027 can be presented as fact.
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Shawn Mendes first came to Australia at the end of October 2016, when his second album Illuminate was just out and 'Treat You Better' was on the radio. Around a busy promotional week in Sydney — the setlist archive lists a performance of 'Mercy' on The X Factor Australia on 31 October — he played two headline concerts at the Enmore Theatre in Newtown on Tuesday 1 and Wednesday 2 November 2016, as part of the Shawn Mendes World Tour. The 13-song set opened with 'Something Big' and closed with 'Stitches'.
A year later he was back as an arena act. The Oceania leg of the Illuminate World Tour began at Spark Arena in Auckland on Saturday 25 November 2017, with Julia Michaels opening. It continued at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on Wednesday 29 November, Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney on Friday 1 December, Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne on Sunday 3 December and Perth Arena on Wednesday 6 December 2017. Wikipedia's box office figures show Brisbane (8,526) and Melbourne (11,277) sold out, with 12,747 tickets sold in Sydney and 7,219 in Perth.
The Illuminate World Tour had begun at the SSE Hydro in Glasgow on 27 April 2017 and finished in Tokyo on 18 December, so Australia and New Zealand formed its penultimate leg. Across the whole tour it sold 648,742 tickets and grossed $37.8 million.
His third and biggest visit came with Shawn Mendes: The Tour in 2019, built around his self-titled third album. It opened at RAC Arena in Perth on Wednesday 23 October 2019 and went on to the Adelaide Entertainment Centre on Saturday 26 October — his first Adelaide concert — then three consecutive nights at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne from Tuesday 29 to Thursday 31 October. Sydney had two nights at Qudos Bank Arena on Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 November, and Brisbane one at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on Wednesday 6 November.
Dan + Shay opened most of the Oceania dates, while the Australian singer-songwriter Ruel supported in Brisbane and Auckland. Wikipedia lists the three Melbourne nights as a sell-out of 35,640 tickets grossing $2,652,548, and the two Sydney nights as 26,918 sold out for $2,204,040. The leg ended at Spark Arena in Auckland on Saturday 9 November 2019, which remains his most recent concert in either country.
In total the setlist archive and Wikipedia document 16 headline concerts in the region: two in 2016, five in 2017 and nine in 2019. Sydney leads with five, ahead of Melbourne with four, Brisbane, Perth and Auckland with two each and Adelaide with one. New Zealand has only ever seen him in Auckland.
The table below lists 16 documented Australia/NZ concerts by Shawn Mendes between 2016 and 2019, with the most shows in Sydney (5), Melbourne (4), Auckland (2), Brisbane (2), Perth (2), Adelaide (1). It is not exhaustive: it only includes documented shows.
| Date | City | Venue | Tour / event |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 November 2019 | Auckland | Spark Arena | Shawn Mendes: The Tour |
| 6 November 2019 | Brisbane | Brisbane Entertainment Centre | Shawn Mendes: The Tour |
| 3 November 2019 | Sydney | Qudos Bank Arena | Shawn Mendes: The Tour |
| 2 November 2019 | Sydney | Qudos Bank Arena | Shawn Mendes: The Tour |
| 31 October 2019 | Melbourne | Rod Laver Arena | Shawn Mendes: The Tour |
| 30 October 2019 | Melbourne | Rod Laver Arena | Shawn Mendes: The Tour |
| 29 October 2019 | Melbourne | Rod Laver Arena | Shawn Mendes: The Tour |
| 26 October 2019 | Adelaide | Adelaide Entertainment Centre | Shawn Mendes: The Tour |
| 23 October 2019 | Perth | RAC Arena | Shawn Mendes: The Tour |
| 6 December 2017 | Perth | Perth Arena | Illuminate World Tour |
| 3 December 2017 | Melbourne | Rod Laver Arena | Illuminate World Tour |
| 1 December 2017 | Sydney | Qudos Bank Arena | Illuminate World Tour |
| 29 November 2017 | Brisbane | Brisbane Entertainment Centre | Illuminate World Tour |
| 25 November 2017 | Auckland | Spark Arena | Illuminate World Tour |
| 2 November 2016 | Sydney | Enmore Theatre | Shawn Mendes World Tour |
| 1 November 2016 | Sydney | Enmore Theatre | Shawn Mendes World Tour |
Across the 15 most recent documented Australia/NZ concerts with a full song list (1 November 2016 to 9 November 2019), these are the songs that came up most often. Titles only — set lists change from night to night.
Shawn Peter Raul Mendes was born on 8 August 1998 in Toronto, to an English mother and a Portuguese father from the Algarve, and grew up in Pickering, Ontario. He taught himself guitar from YouTube videos at 13 and built an audience by posting covers on YouTube and Vine, which led to a deal with Island Records and a self-titled debut EP in 2014.
His debut album Handwritten (2015) went to number one in the United States and reached number 18 in Australia, carried by 'Stitches', a UK number one. Illuminate (2016) produced 'Treat You Better', 'Mercy' and 'There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back' and reached number 3 in Australia. The self-titled Shawn Mendes (2018) went to number one in Australia; its deluxe edition added 'If I Can't Have You' and 'Señorita' with Camila Cabello, his first US Billboard Hot 100 number one.
Wonder (2020) reached number 2 in Australia and made him the youngest male artist to top the Billboard 200 with four studio albums. After a break from music he returned with the folk-leaning Shawn in 2024, which peaked at number 23 in Australia.
His awards include thirteen SOCAN awards, ten MTV Europe Music Awards, eight Juno Awards and two American Music Awards, along with three Grammy nominations and a Brit nomination. In 2018 Time named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
| Album | Year | AUS chart peak |
|---|---|---|
| Handwritten | 2015 | AUS 18 |
| Illuminate | 2016 | AUS 3 |
| Shawn Mendes | 2018 | AUS 1 |
| Wonder | 2020 | AUS 2 |
| Shawn | 2024 | AUS 23 |
Melbourne was the strongest city of Mendes's 2019 Oceania leg. Rod Laver Arena hosted him on three consecutive nights, Tuesday 29, Wednesday 30 and Thursday 31 October 2019, and Wikipedia records all 35,640 tickets as sold, for a gross of $2,652,548 — the biggest box office figure of the region.
The final Melbourne night, on Halloween, was also the only Australian show of the tour where the setlist archive lists a cover of Rick Springfield's 'Jessie's Girl', played near the end of the set in place of 'Mercy'. The first two nights followed the regular running order.
Two years earlier he had played Rod Laver Arena once, on Sunday 3 December 2017, selling 11,277 tickets. Going from one night to three in under two years is one of the clearest measures of how quickly his Australian audience grew.
Sydney traces the whole arc of his Australian career. In November 2016 he played the Enmore Theatre in Newtown, a heritage theatre, on two weeknights. In December 2017 he moved up to Qudos Bank Arena at Sydney Olympic Park, where 12,747 people came to the Friday show.
By November 2019 the arena hosted him on a Saturday and a Sunday, with 26,918 tickets sold across the two nights and a gross of $2,204,040. The set those nights included a medley that joined 'Señorita' with snippets of other songs, and 'Fallin' All in You' on the Saturday.
No Sydney concert has followed since. Any return would most likely be at an arena of the same size or larger, but no venue or date has been announced.
New Zealand has seen Shawn Mendes twice, both times at Spark Arena in Auckland. The first was on Saturday 25 November 2017, the opening night of the Illuminate World Tour's Oceania leg, with Julia Michaels as support.
The second, on Saturday 9 November 2019, closed the Oceania leg of Shawn Mendes: The Tour, with Ruel as the opening act. The setlist archive shows a 23-song set that night, the longest of his concerts in the region, ending with 'Fix You' and 'In My Blood'.
Wellington, Christchurch and other New Zealand cities have never been on his itinerary. As of 9 October 2026 there is no New Zealand date announced for 2027.
Mendes is one of the few international pop acts of his generation to have included both Perth and Adelaide on an Australian tour. Perth hosted him twice: at Perth Arena on Wednesday 6 December 2017, when 7,219 tickets were sold, and at the same venue under its later name, RAC Arena, on Wednesday 23 October 2019, the opening night of that year's leg.
Adelaide came only once, at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre on Saturday 26 October 2019. It was the second show of the 2019 leg and used the same set as the rest of the run, opening with 'Lost in Japan'.
Whether a future tour would return to both cities is unknown. No dates have been announced.
The 2019 Australian and New Zealand shows ran to about 21-23 songs. The setlist archive shows them opening with 'Lost in Japan', 'There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back', 'Nervous' and 'Stitches', with a medley built around 'Señorita' and 'Mutual', and a cover of Whitney Houston's 'I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)'. A piano medley joined 'Because I Had You', 'A Little Too Much', 'Patience' and 'When You're Ready'. The closing run was 'Youth', 'If I Can't Have You', 'Why', 'Mercy', Coldplay's 'Fix You' and 'In My Blood'.
In 2017 the set was 18 songs, opening with 'There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back' and 'Lights On' and including covers of Ed Sheeran's 'Castle on the Hill' and Kings of Leon's 'Use Somebody', the latter paired with 'Treat You Better' to close the night. The 2016 Enmore shows were a 13-song set built on his first two albums.
Any future show would draw on Wonder and Shawn, neither of which he has yet toured in Australia. No set list or staging details for a 2027 show in the region have been published.
There are no Shawn Mendes tickets for Australia or New Zealand in 2027, because no concerts have been announced. No presale, general on-sale or fan registration has been published for the region, and any listing that claims otherwise is not official.
If concerts are announced, buy only from the official ticket outlets named in the announcement, from the venue box office or through the artist's own fan registration. His 2019 arena shows in Melbourne and Sydney sold out, so demand for any return would be high; most large tours in Australia now use name-locked mobile tickets, so buy through the official outlet or its official resale service to make sure the ticket is in your name. Be wary of anyone selling 'presale codes'.
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Is Shawn Mendes touring Australia in 2027?
No. As of 9 October 2026 no Shawn Mendes concert has been announced in Australia or New Zealand, and no 2027 date has been announced anywhere.
When did Shawn Mendes last play in Australia?
On Wednesday 6 November 2019 at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre. His last concert in the region was at Spark Arena in Auckland three days later.
How many times has Shawn Mendes toured Australia?
Three times: two Enmore Theatre shows in Sydney in 2016, the Illuminate World Tour in 2017 and Shawn Mendes: The Tour in 2019.
Has Shawn Mendes played in New Zealand?
Yes, twice, both at Spark Arena in Auckland: 25 November 2017 and 9 November 2019.
Who supported Shawn Mendes in Australia in 2019?
Dan + Shay opened most dates; Ruel opened in Brisbane and Auckland.
Did the On the Road Again Tour come to Australia?
No. It played 20 shows in Europe and North America from 2 August to 17 October 2025.
Has Shawn Mendes played Adelaide?
Once, at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre on Saturday 26 October 2019.
Is there a Shawn Mendes presale code for Australia?
No. With no tour announced, no presale exists. Any code offered for sale now is not genuine.
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