New Year Around The World

If you thought that your country s new year s celebrations were the norm just wait until you check out the following infographic.

New year around the world. The times can be changed to any time zone by clicking on the icon in the first column. Some of these traditions are crazier than others but in a good way. New york city s times square reportedly had more than one million people gather to watch the ball drop where.

Updated 12 16 2019 did you know that more people celebrate new years around the world than any other holiday but of course that doesn t mean that we all celebrate it in the same way. In the gregorian calendar the most widely used calendar system today new year occurs on january 1 new year s day this was also the first day of the year in the. News new year s 2020 around the world.

Before the time of julius caesar the roman new year started on march 1. When year 2021 starts around the world. You can enjoy chinese new year celebrations from sydney to san francisco and everywhere between.

Above is a chronological list of when the world s different countries arrive at midnight on new year s eve and enter january 1 2021. In most european countries during the middle ages the new year began on march 25 the day of the feast of the annunciation. The celebration is usually marked by a tradition of wearing white and tossing flowers into the sea.

Here see how different cities around the world marked new year s 2020. More new year traditions. New year is the time or day at which a new calendar year begins and the calendar s year count increments by one.

New year s day may start the second the clock strikes midnight on january 1st in most countries but the celebrations undertaken to usher in the new year on different corners of the globe couldn t be more unique. People across the globe have not just rung in a new year but a new decade. One of the best places to celebrate the new year in the world rio s iconic copacabana beach hosts the world s largest and wildest new year party which receives more than two million people on that two and a half mile stretch of sand.