The global New Year,2024,New York City, Sydney, Australia, Philippines,London, England,, Brazil..

At the beginning of 2024, when the ball drops in Times Square, New York City, it will actually be late – many countries around the world will have already welcomed the new year.

In the Central Pacific, the island nation of Kiribati, specifically Christmas Island, was the first country to pop champagne for 2024. This happened on the morning of December 31 in the United States, at 5 a.m., and 11 a.m. UTC (Coordinated Universal Time).

Following them, New Year celebrations rolled through Chatham Islands in New Zealand at 5:15 ET, and then the rest of New Zealand, Tokelau, Samoa, Tonga, some of Kiribati’s Phoenix Islands, and certain regions of Antarctica at 6 a.m.

As the day progresses, moving to the other side of the international date line, Hawaii, American Samoa, and many islands beyond the Americas will join the festivities for the last moments of welcoming the new year. They will have to wait until Monday morning (local time) for the Toast to 2024.

In New York,

on Wednesday, December 20, 2023, people gathered in Times Square to see the numerical representations of the new year displayed for the New Year’s Eve celebrations. Authorities are preparing for the New Year’s Eve celebrations in Times Square and throughout America as the Israel-Hamas conflict has presented heightened threats.

Overall, there are 39 different local time zones in use worldwide – some neighboring zones have a difference of 15 or 30 minutes. This includes two zones ahead of UTC, meaning it takes a total of 26 hours to cover them all. The world wishes each other a Happy New Year as it rotates through these time zones.

So, if you really, really, really enjoy humming “Auld Lang Syne,” the list below will take you through the jubilation repeatedly as the day unfolds.

This is the time when, relative to Eastern Standard Time, locations around the world will be ringing in the New Year.

– Sunday, December 31, 2023, 5 a.m. ET Christmas Island, part of the island nation of Kiribati

– Sunday, December 31, 2023, 5:15 a.m. ET Chatham Islands, far east of New Zealand

– Sunday, December 31, 2023, 6 a.m. ET Most of New Zealand (with some exceptions), Tokelau, Samoa, Tonga, some of Kiribati’s Phoenix Islands, and regions of Antarctica

– Sunday, December 31, 2023, 7 a.m. ET Fiji, a small part of eastern Russia, and several more islands in the Pacific, including the Marshall Islands and Tuvalu Sunday, December 31, 2023, 8 a.m. ET Most of Australia, including Melbourne and Sydney, and seven more locations, including Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, and New Caledonia

– 8:30 a.m. ET Australia, including Adelaide

– 9 a.m. ET Queensland province in Australia and six more locations, including some parts of Micronesia, Northern Mariana Islands, Antarctica’s small portion, and Guam

– 9:30 a.m. ET Northern region of Australia

– 10 a.m. ET Japan, South Korea, a small portion of Russia, North Korea, a small part of Indonesia, Timor-Leste, and Palau

– 10:15 a.m. ET Western Australia

– 11 a.m. ET China, Philippines, Malaysia, some parts of Indonesia, most of Mongolia, Taiwan, Brunei, Arctic region of Russia, some parts of Antarctica, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Macau

– Afternoon ET Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, some parts of Russia, some parts of Mongolia, a small portion of Antarctica, and Australia’s Christmas Island

– 12:30 p.m. ET Myanmar and Cocos Islands, an Australian region

– 1 p.m. ET Bangladesh, some parts of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Bhutan, British Indian Ocean Territory, Omsk city in Russia, and a small portion of Antarctica

– 1:15 p.m. ET Nepal

– 1:30 p.m. ET India and Sri Lanka

– 2 p.m. ET Pakistan, some parts of Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Maldives, Tajikistan, southern regions of France, French Kerguelen Islands, and a small portion of Antarctica

– 2:30 p.m. ET Afghanistan

– 3 p.m. ET Azerbaijan, United Arab Emirates, Armenia, a small portion of Russia, Oman, most of Georgia, French Reunion Island, Mauritius, and Seychelles

– 3:30 p.m. ET Iran

 

Please note that these timings are in Eastern Time (ET) and the list continues with various regions welcoming the New Year at different times.

Continuing with the schedule:

• 5 a.m. ET Greece, Egypt, Lebanon, Rwanda, Romania, and 26 other locations
• 4 p.m. ET Moscow, Russia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya, among 17 other locations
• 5 p.m. ET Greece, Egypt, Lebanon, Rwanda, Romania, and 26 other locations
• 6 p.m. ET Germany, Nigeria, Algeria, Italy, Belgium, Morocco, Albania, France, and 38 other locations
• 7 p.m. ET UK, Portugal, Iceland, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Ghana, Sierra Leone, and 18 other locations
• 8 p.m. ET Cabo Verde, Azores in Portugal, and a small region of Greenland
• 9 p.m. ET Mostly Greenland, Brazil’s state of Pernambuco, and South Georgia/Sandwich Islands
• 10 p.m. ET Mostly Brazil, Argentina, Chile with exceptions, Uruguay, some parts of Antarctica, Paraguay, French Guiana, Suriname, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and the Falkland Islands
• 10:30 p.m. ET Canada’s Newfoundland and Labrador province

• – 11 p.m. ET Canada’s various regions, Venezuela, Bolivia, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Aruba, Guyana, and 23 other locations

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• New York City

• – January 1, 2023, Sunday – Early hours UTC: Eastern United States (including New York City, Washington D.C., and Detroit), some parts of Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Cuba, Brazil’s Acre, Panama, Mexico’s small part, Haiti, Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands, Jamaica, a small region in Chile, and the Cayman Islands

  – 1 a.m. ET Central America (including Chicago), Mexico’s significant part (including Mexico City), some parts of Canada, Honduras, Belize, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, and a small part of Ecuador

  – 2 a.m. ET US (Mountain Time Zone, including Denver and Phoenix), some parts of Canada (including Edmonton and Calgary), and a small part of Mexico

  – 3 a.m. ET US (Pacific Time Zone, including Los Angeles and San Francisco), British Columbia in Canada, Baja California in Mexico, Pitcairn Islands, and Clipperton Island

  – New Year’s Eve celebrations in Times Square, New York City, on December 31, 2022, show people under rain smiling with New Year glasses. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

  – 4 a.m. ET Alaska, USA, and regions of French Polynesia

  – 4:30 a.m. ET Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia

  – 5 a.m. ET Hawaii, Tahiti in French Polynesia, and Cook Islands

  – 6 a.m. ET American Samoa, some outer islands of the US (including Midway Atoll), and a national island in the South Pacific

  – 7 a.m. ET US outer islands (unincorporated US territories in the Pacific), including Baker Island and Howland Island..