New Year takes 26 hours to cross the planet. It starts in Kiritimati, in the middle of the Pacific, at Dec 31, 10:00 UTC (Dec 31, 5:00 AM ET), and ends on two uninhabited islands south-west of Hawaiʻi on the morning of January 1. Below is when midnight reaches each time zone, in your own time with a countdown, the Times Square ball drop hour by hour, and the live cameras on Port of Cams in the cities that celebrate.
The first midnight of 2027 is at Dec 31, 10:00 UTC (Dec 31, 5:00 AM ET), in Kiritimati (Christmas Island), Kiribati.
All times below are in UTC and US Eastern time; with JavaScript on, each one is also shown in your own time zone.
Midnight on January 1, 2027, from the first place on Earth to the last. Each row is computed from that place’s time zone rules, so daylight saving time is already accounted for: Sydney and Auckland are in summer time on the night, Europe and North America are not.
The first inhabited place to reach the new year. Kiribati moved its eastern Line Islands to the west side of the date line in 1995, so the whole country shares one calendar day.
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A quarter-hour ahead of mainland New Zealand: one of the few places whose clocks sit 45 minutes off the hour.
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Auckland is the first big city to celebrate. Samoa skipped December 30, 2011 to move to this side of the date line; American Samoa, less than 100 miles away, is now among the last places to reach midnight.
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Sydney Harbour’s fireworks are the first of the big shows most of the world watches. The City of Sydney runs two displays, at 9 pm and at midnight.
Live cams: Opera House & Harbour Bridge · Sydney: Harbour Bridge · Sydney: Circular quay
In Japan the new year is traditionally rung in with temple bells; Seoul rings the Bosingak bell at midnight.
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One time zone covers China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, the Philippines and Western Australia.
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Seven hours ahead of London.
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India keeps a single time zone, five and a half hours ahead of UTC, so its midnight falls on the half hour for everyone in an on-the-hour zone.
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Four hours ahead of London.
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Three hours ahead of London; Türkiye keeps the same offset all year.
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Most of continental Europe reaches midnight together, an hour before London.
Live cams: Prague — Live Cam (CamStreamer) · Venice Grand Canal — Live 4K
Big Ben strikes midnight over Parliament Square. London’s fireworks along the Thames are a ticketed event run by the Mayor of London.
Live cams: London: Parliament Square · London: Trafalgar Square · EarthCam Live: Abbey Road Crossing · EarthCam Live: Dublin, Ireland · Reykjavik: Harbour - Miðbakki
Brazil stopped using daylight saving time in 2019, so Rio is three hours behind London at New Year.
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Half an hour ahead of Atlantic time, so it celebrates before the rest of Canada.
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The Times Square ball drop: the ball starts down at 11:59 pm and reaches the bottom at midnight.
Live cam: Times Square — Live 4K Cam
Mexico City dropped daylight saving time in 2022 and shares Chicago’s clock in winter.
Live cams: Bourbon Street — Live Cam · Torre Latinoamericana
Two hours behind New York.
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The US West Coast reaches midnight three hours after New York.
Live cams: San Francisco Skyline & Golden Gate · San Francisco Live Camera · Bunker Hill: Los Angeles City
Four hours behind New York.
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Hawaiʻi does not use daylight saving time, so midnight here is 5 am in New York on New Year’s Day. It is the last US state to reach the new year, and fireworks at midnight are a long tradition in Honolulu.
Live cams: Lewers Street, Waikiki · Waikiki Beach — Marriott Resort · Honolulu: Beach
The last inhabited places to reach the new year, 25 hours after Kiritimati.
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Uninhabited US islands twelve hours behind UTC: the very last midnight on Earth. Conference deadlines written “Anywhere on Earth” (AoE) use this clock.
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Times are computed from the IANA time zone database (the one your phone and computer use) for Kiritimati (Christmas Island) through Baker Island and Howland Island: Dec 31, 10:00 UTC to Jan 1, 12:00 UTC. 7 of these 22 time zones have a live camera on Port of Cams at the moment; we only list cameras that are working when the page is built.
Times Square, New York, NY
EarthCam’s live 4K view of Times Square, its billboards and its crowds. The ball sits on the flagpole atop One Times Square, at the south end of the square.
For the countdown, the music and the ball itself up close, the official webcast below is the one to have open.
The ball has been lowered from the flagpole of One Times Square, the former Times Tower, since the end of 1907. The current one, the Constellation Ball, is the ninth: 12.5 feet across, 12,350 pounds and covered in 5,280 Waterford crystals, it was introduced in November 2025. Here is the night in New York, as the Times Square Alliance describes it:
The live cameras on Port of Cams in cities on the timeline, in the order the new year reaches them. Each card gives that city’s midnight in UTC and US Eastern time.
Sydney, Australia · Live video
A live PTZ camera across Sydney Harbour that takes in the Opera House, the Harbour Bridge and Circular Quay: the two places the midnight fireworks centre on.
Midnight there: Dec 31, 13:00 UTC · Dec 31, 8:00 AM ET
Sydney, Australia · Still image, refreshes every few minutes
The Harbour Bridge from the water’s edge.
Midnight there: Dec 31, 13:00 UTC · Dec 31, 8:00 AM ET
Sydney, Australia · Still image, refreshes every few minutes
Circular Quay, with the Opera House and the bridge in one frame.
Midnight there: Dec 31, 13:00 UTC · Dec 31, 8:00 AM ET
Prague, Czech Republic · Live video
Prague from across the Vltava toward the Castle.
Midnight there: Dec 31, 23:00 UTC · Dec 31, 6:00 PM ET
Grand Canal, Venice, Italy · Live video
The Grand Canal from Ca’ Angeli. Quieter than a city square at midnight, and a lovely place to watch the year turn.
Midnight there: Dec 31, 23:00 UTC · Dec 31, 6:00 PM ET
London, United Kingdom · Still image, refreshes every few minutes
Parliament Square with the Elizabeth Tower, whose bell, Big Ben, strikes midnight.
Midnight there: Jan 1, 00:00 UTC · Dec 31, 7:00 PM ET
London, United Kingdom · Still image, refreshes every few minutes
Trafalgar Square, at the top of Whitehall in the heart of Westminster.
Midnight there: Jan 1, 00:00 UTC · Dec 31, 7:00 PM ET
London, England · Live video
The Abbey Road zebra crossing in St John’s Wood: not a fireworks view, but a live London street at midnight.
Midnight there: Jan 1, 00:00 UTC · Dec 31, 7:00 PM ET
Dublin, Ireland · Live video
A live view of Dublin’s streets.
Midnight there: Jan 1, 00:00 UTC · Dec 31, 7:00 PM ET
Reykjavik, Iceland · Still image, refreshes every few minutes
Reykjavík’s old harbour. Icelanders set off a great many private fireworks at midnight, all over the city.
Midnight there: Jan 1, 00:00 UTC · Dec 31, 7:00 PM ET
French Quarter, New Orleans, LA · Live video
Bourbon Street in the French Quarter, busy every night and busier on this one.
Midnight there: Jan 1, 06:00 UTC · Jan 1, 1:00 AM ET
Mexico City, Mexico · Still image, refreshes every few minutes
The view from the Torre Latinoamericana over central Mexico City.
Midnight there: Jan 1, 06:00 UTC · Jan 1, 1:00 AM ET
San Francisco, CA · Live video
The San Francisco skyline from Treasure Island, looking across the bay at the downtown waterfront.
Midnight there: Jan 1, 08:00 UTC · Jan 1, 3:00 AM ET
San Francisco, California · Live video
ABC7’s live view over San Francisco.
Midnight there: Jan 1, 08:00 UTC · Jan 1, 3:00 AM ET
Bunker Hill, United States · Still image, refreshes every few minutes
Downtown Los Angeles from Bunker Hill.
Midnight there: Jan 1, 08:00 UTC · Jan 1, 3:00 AM ET
Lewers Street, Waikiki, Honolulu, HI · Our own camera · live video
Our own camera, installed and run by Port of Cams on Lewers Street in the middle of Waikīkī. It streams from our own server, not YouTube. Expect a busy street, the sound of fireworks and the crowd heading toward the beach.
Midnight there: Jan 1, 10:00 UTC · Jan 1, 5:00 AM ET
Waikiki, Honolulu, HI · Live video
Waikīkī Beach from the Waikiki Beach Marriott, with Diamond Head along the shore.
Midnight there: Jan 1, 10:00 UTC · Jan 1, 5:00 AM ET
Honolulu, United States · Still image, refreshes every few minutes
A beach view in Honolulu.
Midnight there: Jan 1, 10:00 UTC · Jan 1, 5:00 AM ET
Sydney is the first of the big shows. The City of Sydney sets off fireworks over the harbour at 9 pm and at midnight local time; see Sydney New Year’s Eve for the night’s plans. London’s fireworks along the Thames are ticketed, and tickets are sold only through the Mayor of London’s official site. In Hawaiʻi, our own Lewers Street camera in Waikīkī shows one of the last US midnights, at Jan 1, 5:00 AM ET on New Year’s Day.
We have no live camera in Auckland, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Dubai, Paris, Rio or Las Vegas at the moment, so those cities appear on the timeline without one rather than with a camera from somewhere else.
The ball starts its 60-second descent at 11:59 pm Eastern Time on December 31 and reaches the bottom at midnight. It is raised to the top of the flagpole on One Times Square at about 6 pm ET. Midnight in New York is 5:00 UTC on January 1, 9 pm in Los Angeles and 7 pm in Honolulu on December 31.
The Times Square Alliance streams its own commercial-free webcast on timessquarenyc.org from 6 pm ET, with an accessible version with open captions and ASL interpretation. This page also links the live 4K Times Square camera on Port of Cams when its stream is up, and the major US TV networks broadcast the night.
Not for the street celebration, which is free, first come, first served. The Times Square Alliance says the viewing areas open at 3 pm, bags are searched, backpacks, large bags, umbrellas and alcohol are not allowed, and there are no portable toilets. Private parties in nearby restaurants and hotels are ticketed separately.
Kiribati. Its Line Islands, including Kiritimati (Christmas Island), are fourteen hours ahead of UTC, so they reach midnight at 10:00 UTC on December 31, which is 5 am in New York. Tonga, Samoa, the Chatham Islands and New Zealand follow within the next hour.
Among inhabited places, American Samoa and Niue, eleven hours behind UTC, at 11:00 UTC on January 1. The uninhabited US islands of Baker and Howland, twelve hours behind UTC, are the very last places on Earth to reach midnight, 26 hours after Kiritimati.
From Kiritimati at UTC+14 to Baker Island at UTC−12 is 26 hours. Counting only inhabited places, from Kiritimati to American Samoa, it is 25 hours.
Sydney is on daylight saving time (UTC+11) at New Year, so its midnight is 13:00 UTC on December 31: 8 am in New York, 5 am in Los Angeles and 3 am in Honolulu that same morning. The City of Sydney also runs an earlier fireworks display at 9 pm Sydney time.
Yes. Port of Cams runs its own live camera on Lewers Street in Waikīkī. Hawaiʻi is the last US state to reach midnight, ten hours behind UTC, so its midnight is 5 am in New York on New Year’s Day.
Midnight times: computed in your browser and at build from the IANA time zone database. Times Square schedule and ball facts: the Times Square Alliance’s New Year’s Eve FAQ and the history of the Times Square Ball, as published for the last celebration and checked on October 22, 2026; see Times Square New Year’s Eve (Times Square Alliance) for this year’s. Sydney and London: the organisers’ sites linked above. Camera feeds belong to their operators, named on each camera page.
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