We are very close to receive the New Year 2025, a very traditional date where January 1st is usually received with the best of energies, expressing positive things for the next 365 days of the year and a very awaited day in various parts of the world for the fireworks shows that are performed.
However, have you ever wondered which country celebrates the New Year first and which country celebrates the New Year last? In this article you will find all the information about it, where you can also get the complete list in order of all the countries that will celebrate New Year’s Eve 2025.
The first country to celebrate the New Year 2025 in the world is Kiribati, with a time zone of UTC+14. This is closely followed by the Chatham Islands in New Zealand with a time zone of UTC+13:45, with a difference of only 15 minutes. Then follow countries such as New Zealand (Wellington), Russia (Chukotka), Australia (Sydney), among others.
But at the other extreme, we have a country that will be the last to receive the New Year 2025 in style and we are referring to the Baker Islands and the Howland Islands, although these are totally uninhabited. American Samoa will be the last inhabited island to welcome the New Year 2025 with a time zone of UTC-11.
| Countries | Time Zones |
|---|---|
| Kiribati- Christmas Isl (Kiritimati) | UTC+14 |
| Chatham Islands- New Zealand | UTC+13:45 |
| New Zealand- Wellington ; Samoa (Apia) ; Tonga, Tokelau, Antarctica-South Pole, McMurdo; Kiribati- Phoenix Islands | UTC+13 |
| Russia- Chukotka, Kamchatka; Nauru, Tuvalu, Marshall Isl., Wallis and Futuna, Kiribati- Tarawa; Fiji ; Norfolk Island (Kingston)- Australia | UTC+12 |
| Australia- Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Hobart; Solomon Isl., New Caledonia, Micronesia- Pohnpei, Vanuatu; Bougainville (Papua New Guinea) ; Russia- Srednekolymsk, (Magadan, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk) | UTC+11 |
| Australia- Adelaide | UTC+10:30 |
| Russia- Vladivostok , Khabarovsk, Birobidzhan, Komsomolsk-na-Amure ; Guam; Australia- Brisbane; Papua New Guinea, Northern Mariana Isl. - UTC+10 Australia- Darwin, Alice Springs | UTC+09:30 |
| Japan- Tokyo, South Korea - Seoul; North Korea- Pyongyang; Russia- Yakutsk, Chita, Blagoveschensk; Palau, Indonesia- Jayapura, Ambon; East Timor, more | UTC+09 |
| Eucla- Western Australia - UTC+08:45 China- Beijing, Shanghai, Macau, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia-Bali, Mongolia, Brunei Darussalam, Russia-Irkutsk , Bratsk, Ulan-Ude ; Australia- Perth, more | UTC+08 |
| Thailand- Bangkok, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia- Java, Sumatra; Australia- Christmas Isl., Russia-Krasnoyarsk , Kemerovo, Novosibirsk, Tomsk | UTC+07 |
| Myanmar (Burma)- Yangon, Cocos Island (Keeling Islands - Australia) | UTC+06:30 |
| Russia- Omsk; Bangladesh- Dhaka; Bhutan; British Indian Ocean Territory- Chagos- Diego Garcia, Kyrgystan | UTC+06 |
| Nepal- Kathmandu | UTC+05:45 |
| India- New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata; Sri Lanka | UTC+05:30 |
| Russia- Yekaterinburg , Chelyabinsk, Perm, Ufa, Kurgan, Orengurg, Tyumen ; Pakistan- Islamabad, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan; Kazakhstan- Almaty, Astana ; Kazakhstan-Aqtau, Aqtobe, Maldives, Kerguelen Isl.(Fr.) | UTC+05 |
| Afghanistan- Kabul, Kandahar - UTC+04:30 United Arab Emirates- Dubai; Russia- Samara, Izhevsk; Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Seychelles, Reunion- France, Oman, Mauritius | UTC+04 |
| Iran- Tehran, Isfahán - UTC+03:30 Russia- Moscow , St.Petersburg, Novgorod, Sevastopol ; Volgograd ; Iraq- Baghdad; Belarus- Minsk ; Turkey; Jordan ; Syria ; Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Yemen, Qatar, Madagascar, Kenya, Tanzania, Somalia, Ethiopia, Comoros, Uganda, more | UTC+03 |
| Greece- Athens; Russia- Kaliningrad ; Ukraine- Kyiv, Sudan, South Sudan , Namibia, Moldova, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Israel, Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Cyprus, Libya, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Rwanda, Mozambique more | UTC+02 |
| France-Paris, Germany, Morocco, Serbia, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Malta, Monaco, Sweden, Switzerland, Gibraltar, Czech Republic, Denmark, Algeria, Angola, Austria, Belgium, Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Croatia, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Nigeria, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tunisia, Vatican City, more | UTC+0 |
| United Kingdom-London, Portugal, Ireland, Iceland, Canary Isl., Cote d’Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Saint Helena, Western Sahara, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, more | UTC |
| Cape Verde- Praia, Azores (Port.), Greenland | UTC-01 |
| Fernando de Noronha; Greenland- Nuuk, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | UTC-02 |
| Brazil- Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazilia ; Brazil- Recife; Salvador-Brazil; Chile-Santiago, Argentina- Buenos Aires, Ushuaia; Paraguay, Uruguay, Suriname, French Guiana, U.K.- Falkland Isl. | UTC-03 |
| Canada- Newfoundland and Labrador (St. John’s) | UTC-03:30 |
| Canada - Nova Scotia (Halifax); Venezuela - Caracas, Barbados, Bermuda (U.K.), Netherlands Antilles, Saint Lucia, Grenada, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, Trinidad and Tobago, Puerto Rico, Manaus- Brazil, Bolivia, more | UTC-04 |
| USA- New York, Washington D.C., Miami, Boston, Atlanta, Detroit, Indianapolis, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Virginia Beach; Canada- Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec; Cuba-Havana, Peru; Acre-Brazil ; Colombia, Bahamas, Jamaica, Ecuador, Panama, more | UTC-05 |
| USA- Chicago, New Orleans, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Oklahoma City, Houston, Dallas, Milwaukee; Canada- Winnipeg, Regina; Mexico- Mexico City, Acapulco, Veracruz; Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Belize, Costa Rica, more | UTC-06 |
| USA- Denver, Albuquerque, El Paso, Salt Lake City, Santa Fe, Phoenix, Tucson; Canada- Calgary, Edmonton, Aklavik, Yellowknife; Mexico- Chihuahua, Mazatlan; Whitehorse (Yukon, Canada) | UTC-07 |
| USA- Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, San Jose, Las Vegas, Portland-OR; Canada- Vancouver, Mexico- Tijuana, Mexicali; U.K. - Pitcairn | UTC-08 |
| USA- Anchorage, Fairbanks, Nome, Unalaska, Juneau; French Polynesia- Gambier Islands | UTC-09 |
| French Polynesia- Marquesas Islands (Nuku Hiva, Hiva Oa) | UTC-09:30 |
| USA- Hawaii (Honolulu), Adak-Aleutian Isl.; Cook Islands (Rarotonga), French Polynesia-Tahiti (Papeete) | UTC-10 |
| American Samoa- Pago Pago, Niue (Alofi), Midway Islands, Jarvis Isl., Kingman Reef, Palmyra Atoll | UTC-11 |
| Baker Island (uninhabited atoll), Howland Island (uninhabited coral island) | UTC-12 |
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