New Year's Eve Countdown 2024 and New Year 2025 in the rest of the world
Where is “tomorrow” for breakfast on December 31st?!? At 11 a.m. CET people will be celebrating January 1st, 2025 in the South Pacific and at 1 p.m. CET the Baker and Howland Islands (USA)!
Germany and the rest of the world will celebrate the New Year 2025 on December 31, 2024
New Year's Eve - worldwide. The New Year's Eve countdown is running in many news tickers and, like every year on December 31st, the question arises: Where is "tomorrow" now?! .... so New Year 2025. In this country, many will prepare their New Year's Eve punch and prepare the menus, while the rest of the world will start the New Year 2025 much earlier and much later. There is a small island republic or atoll on the equator in the South Pacific called "Kiribati", which is the first to celebrate the New Year at 11 a.m. CET - Central European Time. Just 15 minutes later, people are already celebrating on the Chatham Islands, which belong to New Zealand and are a good 800 kilometers away from its main state. The archipelago includes 10 islands. The sky lights up Samoa and Tonga around 12 noon and New Zealand quickly follows. The Baker and Howland Islands will be the last to start the New Year, 26 hours after the Kiribati archipelago - and a full 13 hours after us.
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| Fireworks in Berlin Friedrichstrasse - Melia Hotel (view at midnight) - Press photo: Helga Waess (Archiv) |
The New Year's question for our earth: When and where is today already tomorrow?
While we still have the whole of New Year's Day ahead of us, many countries around the world will already be welcoming January 1, 2025 throughout the day.
Here is the New Year's list according to our time / CET - Central European Time
- 11 a.m.: Kiribati - in the Pacific first slips into 2025
- 12 p.m.: Auckland - New Zealand follows an hour later - the New Year's Eve fireworks from the Auckland Sky Tower are legendary
- 2 p.m.: Sydney - Downunder - in Australia every year the pyro show takes place on the big Harbor Bridge around the Opera House in Sydney Harbor / this year light projections are planned that show fireworks that don't pollute the air!!!
- 4 p.m.: Tokyo - Japan - South Korea - a full 8 hours before CET, people will visit the temples and light fireworks over Tokyo
- 5 p.m.: Beijing - China - according to the Gregorian calendar, the New Year begins here at 5 p.m. - but the turn of the year in the large country is celebrated geographically across five time zones and extends over several hours5 p.m.: Singapore and the Philippines
- 6 p.m.: Bangkok – Thailand - and other countries in Southeast Asia including Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia
- 7.30 p.m.: New Delhi - India - After all, this is where most people, i.e. around 1.4 billion inhabitants, start the year 2025
- 9 p.m.: Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia - Dubai: United Arab Emirates - three hours before us the fireworks start the New Year here at the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
- 10 p.m.: Istanbul - Türkiye - the west of Russia - various starts in East Africa (Kenya, Ethiopia) - and in the Middle East (such as Iraq and Saudi Arabia)
- 11 p.m.: Kiev - Ukraine - Greece - Finland - the Baltic states - Egypt - Israel - South Africa
- 12 a.m.: Germany then says “Happy New Year 2025!” 46 other countries such as Italy, Spain, d. h. our nine neighboring countries - Norway - Sweden. France illuminates the Champs Élysée in front of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. But Algeria, Tunisia and other African countries are also ringing in the New Year with us!
- 1 a.m.: Ireland - Portugal - Senegal - United Kingdom - one hour after us, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland follow. Big Ben will chime twelve bells before the big fireworks display begins at the London Eye Ferris wheel in front of the Thames.
- 4 a.m.: Argentina - Uruguay - Brazil - at 4 a.m. CET it's “Feliz Ano Novo!” The famous Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro becomes a party mile!
- 6 a.m.: - East Canada - Jamaica - Cuba - USA - New York's Times Square gets colorful and the famous confetti shower takes place every year
- 7 a.m.: Mexico - Costa Rica - Parts of the USA (cities like Dallas and Chicago)
- 9 a.m.: Los Angeles – USA (West Coast)
- 11 a.m.: Honolulu – USA
- 12 p.m.: American Samoa
- 1 p.m.: Baker and Howland Islands - USA - now the last part of the planet has its fireworks a full 26 hours after Kiribati
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| Fireworks in Berlin Friedrichstrasse - Melia Hotel (view at midnight) - Press photo: Helga Waess (Archiv) |
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| In all restaurants of the Hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich, the New Year 2025 will be toasted with the big New Year's Eve party at 12 a.m. CET, photo:Helga Waess (Pressearchiv) |
