Which country will celebrate New Year 2023 first and last? (2024)

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Which country celebrates new year First in 2023? ›

Tonga and Samoa will ring in the New Year 2023 at 11 am GMT. After them, New Zealand, Australia, Japan and South Korea will welcome the New Year 2024. American Samoa, an island nation in the South Pacific, will be the last inhabited place to farewell 2023 celebrate the New Year 2023.

Inhabiting the last time zone, American Samoa stands as the concluding bastion of New Year's Eve festivities. It becomes the last inhabited place to embrace the arrival of January 1, 2024, marking the culmination of global celebrations.

The first region to celebrate the New Year is Kiritimati in Oceania. The small island, also known as Christmas Island, inhibits a time zone 14 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). The first major islands to reach midnight in the region will be Tonga, Samoa and parts of New Zealand, one hour later.

Which country will celebrate the New Year last? Close to the United States, the uninhabited islands- Baker Island and Howland- are the places in the world to welcome the New Year the last as they kickstart their celebration at 12 pm GMT or 5:30 pm as per Indian Standard Timing on January 1.

The world has welcomed in 2023 with firework displays, concerts and parties. The Pacific nation of Kiribati was the first to see in the new year, while the US state of Hawaii was among the last to mark the beginning of 2023.

Canada. Canada also has multiple time zones, and the cities in the west such as Vancouver (to reach midnight at 12pm UAE time), Edmonton and Calgary (to reach midnight at 11am UAE time) are in 2023 still. The North American country actually has one more time zone than the US, bringing the total to eight.

Baker Island and Howland Island are officially the last destinations to ring in 2024 at 7:00 a.m. EST on Monday. If you've never heard of either island before, they are located southwest of Honolulu, Hawaii.

Rio's Copacabana Beach plays host each New Year's Eve to Reveillon, the world's largest and wildest New Year's celebration.

Israel. Israel uses the Gregorian calendar but does not formally celebrate New Year's Eve or New Year's Day on December 31/January 1.

Those who adhere to the revised Julian calendar (which synchronizes dates with the Gregorian calendar), including Bulgaria, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Romania, Syria, and Turkey, observe both the religious and civil holidays on January 1.

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Facts dependent on the IDL

According to the clock, the first areas to experience a new day and a New Year are islands that use UTC+14:00. These include portions of the Republic of Kiribati, including Millennium Island in the Line Islands.

The last inhabited places to celebrate are the islands of Niue and American Samoa to the southwest of Kiribati in the South Pacific. The day technically ends an hour later in the U.S. territories of Baker Island and Howland Island, but both are uninhabited, Eggert says.

The Line Islands (part of Kiribati), Samoa and Tonga, in the Pacific Ocean, are the first places to welcome the New Year, while American Samoa, Baker Island and Howland Island (part of the United States Minor Outlying Islands) are among the last.

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The second country to celebrate the New Year is New Zealand. Midnight arrives first at the Chatham Islands, the easternmost place in the nation, followed by Fiji, and some small regions of Russia, Australia, Japan, North Korea and South Korea.

Kiribati – pronounced Kiribas – is the only nation on Earth to permanently trespass into GMT+14: the earliest time zone in the world. You can think of Kiribati as the eternal land of tomorrow: if it's Sunday where you are, it's probably Monday in Kiribati.

It is also celebrated worldwide in regions and countries that house significant Overseas Chinese or Sinophone populations, especially in Southeast Asia. These include Singapore, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam.