New Year

Here is a strange fact: the New Year doesn’t arrive all at once. It takes a full 26 hours for midnight to sweep around the planet — from the first

On the morning of January 1, while most of the world is nursing champagne and sleeping in, thousands of people on beaches from Brooklyn to Vancouver to the Netherlands will

January 1 is the year’s blankest page — and most of us waste it. We sleep until noon, scroll through other people’s highlights, eat leftovers, and let the year’s first

Do not sweep the floor. Do not wash your hair. Eat twelve grapes at midnight, wear red underwear, carry an empty suitcase around the block, and for heaven’s sake do

Every April, Thailand transforms into the world’s friendliest water park. Songkran — the traditional Thai New Year, held April 13–15 each year — pairs ancient Buddhist merit-making rituals with the

There is a particular magic to watching the sun rise on January 1 — the first light of a brand-new year touching your face before the year has properly begun.

Rosh Hashanah — literally “head of the year” in Hebrew — is the Jewish New Year, a two-day observance that opens the most sacred season in the Jewish calendar. In

Diwali — the festival of lights — is Hinduism’s grandest celebration, a five-day blaze of oil lamps, fireworks, sweets, and family gatherings that marks the triumph of light over darkness

Nowruz — “new day” in Persian — is the ancient New Year celebrated by more than 300 million people across Iran, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and diaspora communities worldwide. Timed

Pop the cork, and the year begins. No drink on earth is as synonymous with celebration as champagne — and no moment demands it like midnight on New Year’s Eve.

Every New Year’s Eve, as the clock strikes twelve, the sky over Sydney Harbour, the Thames, and a thousand cities ignites in color — a global ritual of light that

Chinese New Year 2027 arrives on Saturday, February 6, 2027, opening the Year of the Fire Goat and one of the most widely celebrated festivals on the planet. More than