New Year Countdown 2027

This countdown to 2027 shows the time left until midnight on the night of 31 December, as 1 January 2027 begins. It runs live, second by second, and follows your own time zone: what you see is the time until your midnight, not another city's.

When exactly does 2027 start? New Year travels westward, one time zone at a time. Kiribati (UTC+14) celebrates first, followed by New Zealand, Australia, Asia and then Europe. London (UTC+0) reaches midnight thirteen hours after Kiribati, New York (UTC-5) five hours later still. The last inhabited places to cross over are in UTC-11, and the uninhabited Baker and Howland Islands (UTC-12) close the sequence twenty-six hours after it opened.

New Year's Eve customs around the world

• New York drops the Times Square ball, a tradition that began in 1907.
• Spain eats twelve grapes, one per chime of the clock at midnight.
• Scotland calls the night Hogmanay and sings "Auld Lang Syne".
• Japan rings temple bells 108 times, once per earthly desire in Buddhist tradition.

January 1st became the start of the year under the Julian calendar in 46 BC, was widely dropped during the Middle Ages in favour of Easter or 25 March, and only returned across Europe with the Gregorian calendar reform of 1582 — Britain and its colonies waited until 1752.

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