When Year 2026 Starts Around the World

With 38 different local times in use, it takes 26 hours for the New Year to encompass all time zones. Find out in which order they enter 2026 and which countries are first and last.

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Countries Going Into Year 2026
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Cities Entering Year 2026
Wed 8:30 pmChristmas Island/KiribatiKiritimati
Wed 8:45 pmChatham Islands/New ZealandChatham Islands
Wed 9:30 pmNew Zealand with exceptions and 5 moreAuckland, Wellington, Nuku'alofa, Apia
Wed 10:30 pmFiji, small region of Russia and 7 moreAnadyr, Suva, Funafuti, Yaren, Tarawa
Wed 11:30 pmMuch of Australia and 6 moreMelbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Honiara
Thu 12:00 midnightSmall region of AustraliaAdelaide, Broken Hill, Ceduna
Thu 12:30 amQueensland/Australia and 6 moreBrisbane, Port Moresby, Hagåtña
Thu 1:00 amNorthern Territory/AustraliaDarwin, Alice Springs, Tennant Creek
Thu 1:30 amJapan, South Korea and 5 moreTokyo, Seoul, Pyongyang, Dili, Ngerulmud
Thu 1:45 amWestern Australia/AustraliaEucla
Thu 2:30 amChina, Philippines and 11 moreBeijing, Hong Kong, Manila, Singapore
Thu 3:30 amMuch of Indonesia, Thailand and 7 moreJakarta, Bangkok, Hanoi, Phnom Penh
Thu 4:00 amMyanmar and Cocos IslandsYangon, Naypyidaw, Mandalay, Bantam
Thu 4:30 amBangladesh and 5 moreDhaka, Bishkek, Thimphu, Omsk
Thu 4:45 amNepalKathmandu, Pokhara, Biratnagar, Dharan
Thu 5:00 amIndia and Sri LankaNew Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bengaluru
Thu 5:30 amPakistan and 9 moreTashkent, Islamabad, Almaty, Lahore
Thu 6:00 amAfghanistanKabul, Kandahar, Mazari Sharif, Herat
Thu 6:30 amAzerbaijan and 8 moreDubai, Abu Dhabi, Muscat, Port Louis
Thu 7:00 amIranTehran, Rasht, Esfahãn, Mashhad, Tabriz
Thu 7:30 amMoscow/Russia and 23 moreMoscow, Ankara, Baghdad, Nairobi
Thu 8:30 amGreece and 30 moreCairo, Athens, Bucharest, Johannesburg
Thu 9:30 amGermany and 45 moreBrussels, Madrid, Paris, Rome, Algiers
Thu 10:30 amUnited Kingdom and 24 moreLondon, Dublin, Lisbon, Accra, Reykjavik
Thu 11:30 amAzores/Portugal and Cabo VerdePraia, Ponta Delgada, Mindelo
Thu 12:30 pmMost of Greenland and 2 moreNuuk, Ittoqqortoormiit, King Edward Point
Thu 1:30 pmMost of Brazil, Argentina and 8 moreBuenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago
Thu 2:00 pmNewfoundland and Labrador/CanadaSt. John's, Mary's Harbour
Thu 2:30 pmSome regions of Canada and 29 moreCaracas, La Paz, San Juan, Santo Domingo
Thu 3:30 pmRegions of USA and 14 moreNew York, Washington DC, Detroit, Havana
Thu 4:30 pmRegions of USA and 9 moreMexico City, Chicago, Guatemala City
Thu 5:30 pmSome regions of USA and 2 moreCalgary, Denver, Edmonton, Phoenix
Thu 6:30 pmRegions of USA and 4 moreLos Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas
Thu 7:30 pmAlaska/USA and regions of French PolynesiaAnchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau, Unalaska
Thu 8:00 pmMarquesas Islands/French PolynesiaTaiohae
Thu 8:30 pmSmall region of USA and 3 moreHonolulu, Rarotonga, Adak, Papeete
Thu 9:30 pmRegions of US Minor Outlying Islands and 2 moreAlofi, Midway, Pago Pago, Jarvis Island
Thu 10:30 pmRegions of US Minor Outlying IslandsBaker Island, Howland Island

Above is a chronological list of when the world's different countries arrive at midnight on New Year's Eve and enter January 1, 2026

The times can be changed to any time zone by clicking on the icon in the first column.