New Year's Eve worldwide: spectacle and celebrate at the turn of 2025!

New Year's Eve worldwide: spectacle and celebrate at the turn of 2025!

On December 31, 2024, the world looks forward to the upcoming turn of the year. In the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, the new year 2025 welcomes billions of people with spectacular fireworks and light shows. Even the Australian metropolis of Sydney is preparing for an impressive mega fireworks, which should start at the midnight hour (2 p.m. CET). In the port of Sydney, nine tons of pyrotechnics are fired and the show will take at least 20 minutes. Over 1 million onlookers, including numerous tourists, will be on site, while about one billion people are watching the event worldwide on television, as OE24 reports.

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The turn of the year is also celebrated in Brazil: Around 2.5 million people celebrating are expected on the famous Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro. The safety precautions are reinforced compared to the previous year, with 3,300 police officers who are in use. In addition to traditional fireworks, concerts are held on three stages. Pop star Anitta and the Brazilian music legends Caetano Veloso and Maria Bethania appear, which the city could give around CHF 470 million in income, such as Tagesanzeiger.ch reported.

In Europe, however, the celebrations are affected by changeable weather. In Germany, high fine dust values ​​are expected due to the New Year's fireworks, despite repeated demands for a firing ban. In Edinburgh, Scotland, several events of the traditional Hogmanay Festival were canceled due to storm warnings, while in Denmark an increased safety distance is recommended when burning off fireworks due to strong winds. In Germany, the largest celebration will take place again in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, where up to 65,000 people are expected.