New Year Hours Around The World

Germany has joined the world in welcoming 2020.

New year hours around the world. New year s eve 2019. There are 10 locations and seven outside of the city for people to gather to bid adieu to the outgoing year. In denmark people jump off of their chairs in unison at midnight.

Reykjavík residents visit bonfires set up around the city on new year s eve. People across the globe have not just rung in a new year but a new decade. As the celebrations kick off in new zealand and australia there was an enthusiastic welcome to 2013 across asia with extravagant firework displays lighting.

Many cultures celebrate the event in some manner and the 1st day of january is often marked as a national holiday. Fireworks blasting off the ball dropping kissing a loved one toasting with champagne etc. When year 2021 starts around the world with 38 different local times in use it takes 26 hours for the new year to encompass all time zones.

Many of the world s new year s traditions revolve around the stroke of midnight. 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. New zealand marked the arrival of 2020 at 11 00am on new year s eve uk time photo.

Find out in which order they enter 2021 and which countries are first and last. Celebrations around the world as it happened all the celebrations as the clock strikes midnight and countries see out 2019 and welcome in the twenties updated. Est 13 hours ahead of new york.

Taiwan s capital city celebrated the new year at 11 a m. Getty images when the clocks strike midnight around the world in uk time new year s eve.