Which country celebrates New Year 2026 first and who celebrates it last ?

When Year 2026 Starts Around the World
New Year's Time Zones around the World- 24 hour format.

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New Year	Time zone offset
Below is WorldTimeZone annual review of where the year 2026 starts first and where 2025 rings out last !
01. First to observe New Year 2026 Kiribati- Christmas Isl (Kiritimati) When it is midnight in Christmas Isl., what time is it in other locations around the world ? Click on the location link to find out!	UTC+14
For example when Kiritimati (UTC+14) enters the New Year at midnight Dec 31, 2025 (New Year 2026), the local time in New York is 05am (morning) Dec 31, 2025, local time in London is 10am and local time in Sydney is 09pm (21:00) Dec 31, 2025.

02. Second to observe New Year 2026 Chatham Islands- New Zealand	UTC+13:45
03. Third to observe New Year 2026 New Zealand- Wellington ; Samoa (Apia) ; Tonga, Tokelau, Antarctica-South Pole, McMurdo; Kiribati- Phoenix Islands;	UTC+13
04. Russia- Chukotka, Kamchatka; Nauru, Tuvalu, Marshall Isl., Wallis and Futuna, Kiribati- Tarawa; Fiji ; Norfolk Island (Kingston)- Australia	UTC+12
05. Australia- Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Hobart; Solomon Isl., New Caledonia, Micronesia- Pohnpei, Vanuatu; Bougainville (Papua New Guinea) ; Russia- Srednekolymsk, (Magadan, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk);	UTC+11
06. Australia- Adelaide	UTC+10:30
07. Russia- Vladivostok , Khabarovsk, Birobidzhan, Komsomolsk-na-Amure ; Guam; Australia- Brisbane; Papua New Guinea, Northern Mariana Isl.	UTC+10
08. Australia- Darwin, Alice Springs	UTC+09:30
09. Japan- Tokyo, South Korea - Seoul; North Korea- Pyongyang; Russia- Yakutsk, Chita, Blagoveschensk; Palau, Indonesia- Jayapura, Ambon; East Timor, more ...	UTC+09
10. Eucla- Western Australia	UTC+08:45
11. 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
12. Thailand- Bangkok, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia- Java, Sumatra; Australia- Christmas Isl., Russia-Krasnoyarsk , Kemerovo, Novosibirsk, Tomsk;	UTC+07
13. Myanmar (Burma)- Yangon, Cocos Island (Keeling Islands - Australia)	UTC+06:30
14. Russia- Omsk; Bangladesh- Dhaka; Bhutan; British Indian Ocean Territory- Chagos- Diego Garcia, Kyrgystan	UTC+06
15. Nepal- Kathmandu	UTC+05:45
16. India- New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata; Sri Lanka	UTC+05:30
17. 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
18. Afghanistan- Kabul, Kandahar	UTC+04:30
19. United Arab Emirates- Dubai; Russia- Samara, Izhevsk; Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Seychelles, Reunion- France, Oman, Mauritius	UTC+04
20. Iran- Tehran, Isfahan	UTC+03:30
21. 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
22. 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
23. 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+01
24. 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
25. Cape Verde- Praia, Azores (Port.), Greenland- Ittoqqortoormiit	UTC-01
26. Fernando de Noronha; Greenland- Nuuk, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	UTC-02
27. 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
28. Canada- Newfoundland and Labrador (St. John's)	UTC-03:30
29. 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
30. 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
31. 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
32. 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
33. USA- Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, San Jose, Las Vegas, Portland-OR; Canada- Vancouver, Mexico- Tijuana, Mexicali; U.K. - Pitcairn	UTC-08
34. USA- Anchorage, Fairbanks, Nome, Unalaska, Juneau; French Polynesia- Gambier Islands	UTC-09
35. French Polynesia- Marquesas Islands (Nuku Hiva, Hiva Oa)	UTC-09:30
36. USA- Hawaii (Honolulu), Adak-Aleutian Isl.; Cook Islands (Rarotonga), French Polynesia-Tahiti (Papeete)	UTC-10
37. Last inhabited places to observe New Year 2026 American Samoa- Pago Pago, Niue (Alofi), Midway Islands, Jarvis Isl., Kingman Reef, Palmyra Atoll	UTC-11
38. Last uninhabited places to observe New Year 2026 Baker Island (uninhabited atoll), Howland Island (uninhabited coral island)	UTC-12
American Samoa will be one of the last places to welcome New Year 2026 ! At Pago Pago airport (American Samoa) with World Time Zone white canga