New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve is the holiday before New Year's Day, on 31 December, the last day of the current year.

New Year's Eve
New Year celebration in Eberhardzell, Germany, 2018
Also called	Hogmanay (Scotland) Calennig (Wales) Shchedryi Vechir (Ukraine) Ambang/Malam Tahun Baharu/Baru (Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore) Yangi Yil, Yılbaşı arifesi, Yeni İl ərəfəsi (Uzbekistan, Turkey and Azerbaijan) Karamu (African diaspora) Silvester (Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland) Réveillon (Algeria, Angola, Brazil, France, Macau, Morocco, Mozambique, Portugal, Romania, Tunisia, Wallonia, and French-speaking locations in North America) Kanun Novogo Goda (Russia) Ōmisoka (Japan) Pele ga Ngwaga o Mosha (Botswana) Nocheviejacode: es is deprecated (lit. Old Night) (Spain and other countries where Spanish is mostly spoken)
Observed by	Users of the Gregorian calendar
Type	International
Significance	The last day of the year in the Gregorian calendar
Date	31 December
Celebrations	Reflection; late-night partying; family gatherings; feasting; gift exchanges; fireworks; countdowns; watchnight services; social gatherings, during which participants may dance, eat, consume alcoholic beverages, and watch or light fireworks
Related to	New Year's Day

Today, Western countries usually celebrate this day with a party which ends with a group countdown to midnight. Party hats, noisemakers, fire crackers and drinking champagne are fairly common during this holiday.

Many towns also have firework shows or other noisy ways to start the new year. Places like Berlin, Chicago, Edinburgh, Los Angeles, London, New York, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Sydney, Toronto, and Tokyo are well known for their New Year's Eve celebrations.

New Year's Eve is also a work holiday in some countries, such as Australia, Argentina, Brazil, France, Mexico, the Philippines, and Venezuela.

New Year's Eve Media

• Lenticchie e cotechino fatti in casa.jpeg

  Italian cotechino and lentils, a typical New Year's Eve dinner dish

• CasablancaFire.jpg

  Casablanca fireworks display

• New Year's Eve at V&A Waterfront, Cape Town (2017).jpg

  Fireworks in Cape Town 2017.

• Countries that do not celebrate New Year’s Day on 1st January.png

  Some Asian countries where the main celebrations of the New Year are on a day other than 1 January.

• New year celebrating in Bangladesh 03.jpg

  New Year celebration in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

• HK NYE.jpg

  Fireworks fired from Two International Finance Centre to mark the year 2010.

• Tokyo Tower in New Year's Eve 2012.jpg

  Tokyo Tower on New Year's Eve, 2012

• Korea-Seoul-Bosingak-03.jpg

  Many South Korean gather at Bosingak in Seoul to celebrate the New Year.

• 2018 New Year Fireworks in George Town, Penang.jpg

  Fireworks in George Town, Penang on 1 January 2018

• S novym godom 2012.ogv

  Midnight at Red Square in 2012.

Related pages

• Chinese New Year
• Omisoka (Japan)

Other websites

• Media related to New Year's Eve at Wikimedia Commons
• File:Wikinews-logo.svg News related to World celebrates new year for gregorian calendar at Wikinews