People around the world ring in the new year
Hello and welcome to our live coverage of New Year’s Eve celebrations from around the world starting in 2025. We’ll bring you some of the best photos as people around the world ring in the new year — at least those parts of the world that use the Gregorian calendar. Other new year are available.
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A family-friendly parade along Sydney Harbor before the main show went off at midnight (1pm GMT).
Another visitor to Sydney is a British tourist who saw pictures of harbor parades as a child and vowed to visit the city’s harbor one day.
In Balmain with friends, the 28-year-old found a vantage point and watched the show.
“It’s something on the bucket list for me,” he told AAP.
“The house of Sydney brands is always the news all over the world, it’s one of the first places to bring in the new year.”
Auckland has become the first major city to welcome 2025 a little earlier, with thousands of people counting down to New Year’s and the fireworks from the tallest structure in the Sky Tower and the light show from New Zealand.
Thousands flock to the city, or climb the city’s ring of volcanic peaks for a hundred fires, and recognizing the light of Auckland’s Indigenous people. It follows a year of protests over Māori rights in a nation of 5 million.
Countries in the South Pacific are the first to ring in the New Year, hitting midnight in New Zealand two hours before midnight in Sydney, 13 hours before London and 18 hours before the ball drops in New York.
County is well and truly frowned upon in Australia – at least in the country’s eastern cities where it’s less than an hour before midnight.
Hundreds of thousands of people are already gathered in the best spectacles around Sydney Harbor to watch the famous New Year’s Eve parade.
Many of those who will bring in the new year in Sydney are tourists such as Roman and Monica Gezernek from Germany, who waited hours for Sydney’s pyrotechnics.
“They are the world’s most famous, apparently, to see them,” Roman Gezernek told the Australian Associated Press.
The pair will fly to New Zealand on New Year’s Day to continue the journey of a lifetime.
“We are students to spend our time around the world,” he said.
People around the world ring in the new year
Hello and welcome to our live coverage of New Year’s Eve celebrations from around the world starting in 2025. We’ll bring you some of the best photos as people around the world ring in the new year — at least those parts of the world that use the Gregorian calendar. Other new year are available.