2023-12-31 11:47:00
(CNN) — When the ball drops in New York City’s Times Square to announce the start of 2024, it will actually be too late: Dozens of countries around the world are already welcoming the new year.
Christmas Island in Kiribati, an island country in the central Pacific Ocean, was the first country to distill champagne, welcoming 2024, when it was only 5 a.m. on December 31 on the east coast of the United States and 11 am UTC (Coordinated Universal Time). the world standard).
The country was followed by the Chatham Islands in New Zealand at 5:15 a.m. ET and then most of New Zealand at 6 a.m., along with Tokelau, Samoa, Tonga, the Phoenix Islands of Kiribati and some regions of Antarctica.
People gather around Whairepo Lagoon to listen to music and watch New Year’s fireworks in Wellington, New Zealand. (Photo by Mike Clare/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Meanwhile, on the other side of the international date line, Hawaii, American Samoa and many of the United States’ outlying islands will be among the last places to ring in the new year. They’ll have to wait until Monday morning ET to toast 2024.
In total, there are 39 different local time zones in use around the world, some with differences of 15 or 30 minutes compared to nearby zones, including two that are more than 12 hours ahead of UTC, meaning they need 26 hours for everyone. world to welcome the New Year.
So if you really love humming “Auld Lang Syne,” the following list will keep you in the spirit once more and once more as the day goes on.
Here’s a list of when places around the world ring in the New Year, relative to East Coast time.
Sunday, December 31, 2023
5 a.m. ET Christmas Island, part of the island nation of Kiribati
5:15 a.m. ET Chatham Islands, off the east coast of New Zealand
6 a.m. ET Most of New Zealand (with some exceptions) and Tokelau, Samoa, Tonga, the Phoenix Islands of Kiribati and some regions of Antarctica.
7 am ET Fijia small part of eastern Russia, and several other Pacific islands, including the Marshall Islands and Tuvalu
8 a.m. ET Much of Australia, including Melbourne and Sydney, and seven more locations, including Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, Bougainville in Papua New Guinea and New Caledonia.
Fireworks light up the sky over Sydney Harbor Bridge during New Year’s Eve celebrations on December 31, 2022 in Sydney, Australia. Roni Bintang/Getty Images
8:30 a.m. ET A small region of Australia that includes Adelaide
9 a.m. ET The Australian province of Queensland and six other places, including parts of Micronesia, the Northern Mariana Islands, a small part of Antarctica and Guam.
9:30 a.m. ET Northern Territory of Australia
10 a.m. ET Japan, South Korea, a small part of Russia, North Korea, a small part of Indonesia, East Timor and Palau
10:15 am ET Western Australia
11 a.m. ET China, the Philippines, Malaysia, parts of Indonesia, most of Mongolia, Taiwan, Brunei, Russia’s Irkutsk region, some parts of Antarctica, Hong Kong, Singapore and Macau
Noon ET Much of Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, some parts of Russia, some parts of Mongolia, a small region of Antarctica, and Australia’s Christmas Island.
Fireworks explode over buildings during New Year celebrations on January 1, 2023 in Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines. Ezra Acayan/Getty Images
12:30 p.m. ET Myanmar and the Cocos Islands, Australian territory
1 p.m. ET Bangladesh, parts of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Bhutan, the British Indian Ocean Territory, the city of Omsk in Russia and a small part of Antarctica.
13:15 Nepal Eastern Time
1:30 p.m. ET India and Sri Lanka
2 p.m. ET Pakistan, some parts of Russia, much of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, the Maldives, Tajikistan, the southern French territories, the Kerguelen Islands of France and a small region of Antarctica.
2:30 p.m. ET Afghanistan
3 p.m. ET Azerbaijan, the United Arab Emirates, Armenia, a small region of Russia, Oman, much of Georgia, the French island of Reunion, Mauritius and the Seychelles.
3:30 pm ET Iran
4 p.m. ET Moscow in Russia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya, plus 17 other locations
5 p.m. ET Greece, Egypt, Lebanon, Rwanda, Romania and 26 other places
Fireworks illuminate the London skyline over Big Ben and the London Eye just following midnight on January 1, 2023 in London, England. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
6 p.m. ET Germany, Nigeria, Algeria, Italy, Belgium, Morocco, Albania, France and 38 other places
7 p.m. ET United Kingdom, Portugal, Iceland, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Ghana, Sierra Leone and 18 other locations
8 p.m. ET Cape Verde, Azores in Portugal and a small region of Greenland
9 p.m. ET Most of Greenland, the Brazilian state of Pernambuco and the South Georgia/Sandwich Islands
10 p.m. ET Most of Brazil, Argentina, Chile with exceptions, Uruguay, parts of Antarctica, Paraguay, French Guiana, Suriname, San Pedro and Miquelon and the Falkland Islands.
10:30 p.m. ET Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador
11 p.m. ET Some regions of Canada, Venezuela, Bolivia, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Aruba, Guyana and 23 other places
People ring in the New Year as they watch fireworks explode over Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, early Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023. Bruna Prado/AP
Monday, January 1, 2024
Midnight The East Coast of the USA (including New York City, Washington, DC and Detroit), parts of Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Cuba, Acre in Brazil, Panama, a small part of Mexico, Haiti, Bahamas, Turkey and Caicos, Jamaica, a small region of Chile and the Cayman Islands
1 am ET Central on EE. UU (including Chicago), much of Mexico (including Mexico City), parts of Canada, Honduras, Belize, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, and a small part of Ecuador
2 am ET EE. UU. (mountain time zone, including Denver and Phoenix), parts of Canada (including Edmonton and Calgary), and parts of Mexico
3 am ET EE. UU. (Pacific time zone, including Los Angeles and San Francisco), British Columbia in Canada, Baja California in Mexico, Pitcairn Islands and Clipperton Island
A reveler wearing New Year’s glasses smiles in the rain during New Year’s Eve celebrations in Times Square on Saturday, December 31, 2022 in New York. Andrés Kudacki/AP
4 am ET Alaska in the EE. UU. and regions of French Polynesia
4:30 a.m. ET Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia
5 a.m. ET Hawaii in the USA, Tahiti in French Polynesia and the Cook Islands
6 a.m. ET Samoa Americanaparts of the US Minor Outlying Islands (including Midway Atoll), and Niue, an island nation in the South Pacific Ocean
7 a.m. ET Much of the US Minor Outlying Islands (unincorporated US territories in the Pacific), including Baker Island and Howland Island
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