The countdown for the most awaited event in the year has already begun across the world. The entire world will bid adieu to the current year 2020 and welcome New Year with celebrations as soon as the clock strikes midnight on December 31st. New Year countdown will embark the jovial good times that will adorn every one’s lives with joyous merriment and celebrations.
Explore the following table to find out the country entering first to the New Year 2020. This table lists the exact time for the beginning of New Year in countries around the world.
New Year Time Around The World
|
GMT
|
COUNTRY
|
| 31st December 10:00 a.m. |
Kiritimati (Kiribati - Christmas Islands) |
| 31st December 10:15 a.m. |
Chatham Island (New Zealand) |
| 31st December 11:00 a.m. |
New Zealand, Tonga and the South Pole |
| 31st December 12:00 p.m. |
Parts of eastern Russia, Fiji and some Pacific islands |
| 31st December 12:30 p.m. |
Norfolk Island - Australia |
| 31st December 1:00 p.m. |
Parts of eastern Australia and some pacific Islands |
| 31st December 1:30 p.m |
South Australia |
| 31st December 2:00 p.m |
Queensland - Australia, a part of Russia and some islands far east in the Pacific |
| 31st December 2:30 p.m |
Northern Territory- Australia |
| 31st December 3:00 p.m |
Japan and Korea |
| 31st December 4:00 p.m |
China, parts of South-East Asia and rest of Australia |
| 31st December 5:00 p.m |
Indonesia and rest of South-East Asia |
| 31st December 5:30 p.m |
Myanmar |
| 31st December 6:00 p.m |
Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and parts of Russia |
| 31st December 6:15 p.m |
Nepal |
| 31st December 6:30 p.m |
India |
| 31st December 7:00 p.m |
Most of Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgystan and parts of Russia |
| 31st December 7:30 p.m |
Afghanistan |
| 31st December 8:00 p.m |
Armenia, Azerbaijan, parts of Russia and Arabia, some islands in the Indian Ocean |
| 31st December 8:30 p.m |
Iran |
| 31st December 9:00 p.m |
Most of western Asia and Arabia, parts of Russia, and eastern parts of Africa |
| 31st December 10:00 p.m |
Eastern Europe and Turkey, parts of Africa - from North to South. |
| 31st December 11:00 p.m |
Western Europe, parts of Africa |
| 1st January 00:00 am |
London (U.K. - England), Dublin (Ireland), Casablanca (Morocco), Lisbon (Portugal), Reykjavik (Iceland), Yamoussoukro (Cote d Ivoire (Ivory Coast)), Glasgow (U.K. - Scotland), Freetown (Sierra Leone), El Aaiún (Western Sahara), Dakar (Senegal), São Tomé (Sao Tome and Principe), Conakry (Guinea), Bissau (Guinea-Bissau), Accra (Ghana), Banjul (Gambia), Cardiff (U.K. - Wales), Bamako (Mali), Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), Nouakchott (Mauritania), Monrovia (Liberia), Lome (Togo), Belfast (U.K. - Northern Ireland) |
| 1st January 1:00 am |
Azores in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean |
| 1st January 2:00 am |
Eastern parts of South-America |
| 1st January 3:00 am |
Rest of eastern South-America |
| 1st January 3:30 am |
Newfoundland in Canada |
| 1st January 4:00 am |
Eastern Canada, many Caribbean islands, parts of South-America |
| 1st January 5:00 am |
Eastern Time in Canada and USA, Western South-America |
| 1st January 6:00 am |
Central Time in Canada and USA, Mexico and most of Latin America |
| 1st January 7:00 am |
Mountain Time in Canada and USA |
| 1st January 8:00 am |
Pacific Time in Canada and USA |
| 1st January 9:00 am |
Alaska - USA |
| 1st January 9:30 am |
Marquesas Islands as part of the French Polynesia |
| 1st January 10:00 am |
Hawaii - USA, Tahiti and Cook Islands |
| 1st January 11:00 am |
Alofi (Niue), Apia (Samoa), Pago Pago (U.S.A. - American Samoa) |