Revellers across the globe welcome the arrival of 2025 with spectacular fireworks and festivities
Fireworks light up the sky over Sydney Harbour Bridge and Opera House in Australia. Photograph: Izhar Khan/Getty Images
Revellers gather near the Taipei 101 skyscraper to attend a countdown celebration. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
A large crowd gathers at the Liberation Monument in Chongqing, China. Photograph: Cheng Xin/Getty Images
Countdown celebrations in Beijing, China. Photograph: Andrés Martínez Casares/EPA
Tourist boats get prime positions on the Chao Phraya river in Bangkok, Thailand. Photograph: Patipat Janthong/Reuters
Fireworks explode over the Grand Palace in Bangkok, Thailand. Photograph: Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters
Marina Bay, Singapore. Photograph: Suhaimi Abdullah/Getty Images
Fireworks explode over Victoria Harbour at Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong. Photograph: Chan Long Hei/AP
Traditional performers during the dance of releasing the sun 2024, welcoming the sun 2025 in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia. Photograph: Sonny Tumbelaka/AFP/Getty Images
New year celebrations in Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila, Philippines. Photograph: Eloisa Lopez/Reuters
Revellers gather near the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Photograph: Andy Wong/AP
Fireworks explode at the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, in Dubai, UAE. Photograph: Altaf Qadri/AP
People celebrate the arrival of the new year at Marine Drive in Mumbai, India Photograph: Rafiq Maqbool/AP
A DJ performs on stage in Damascus, Syria. Photograph: Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters
People gather during new year celebrations in Mosul, Iraq. Photograph: Khalid Al-Mousily/Reuters
Passengers wearing festive hats sit inside a subway as they prepare to celebrate New Year’s Eve in Ankara, Turkey. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
Fireworks spark over the historical site of Giza Pyramids, Egypt. Photograph: Amr Nabil/AP
Anti-government demonstrators protest against the Georgian government’s postponement of European Union accession talks outside the parliament in central Tbilisi, Georgia. Photograph: Giorgi Arjevanidze/AFP/Getty Images
A man is dressed as Ded Moroz, the Russian equivalent of Santa Claus, during new year celebrations near the Spasskaya tower of the Kremlin and St Basil’s cathedral in central Moscow, Russia. Photograph: Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters
A traditional Achetringele procession in Laupen, Switzerland. Photograph: Anthony Anex/EPA
A firework display for children at the Museumplein square in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Photograph: Koen van Weel/EPA
People gather on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris to welcome in the new year. Photograph: Thomas Samson/AFP/Getty Images
Southend, UK, hosted its first New Year’s Eve seafront fireworks displays at 6pm and midnight. Photograph: Jill Mead/The Guardian
Copacabana beach prior to the traditional New Year’s celebration. Photograph: Wagner Meier/Getty Images
The Berlin TV Tower and Berliner Dom during celebrations in Berlin, Germany. Photograph: Filip Singer/EPA
The Atomium in Brussels gets lit up by fireworks, Belgium. Photograph: Hatim Kaghat/Belga/AFP/Getty Images
The Quadriga statue of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany. Photograph: Filip Singer/EPA
Polish singer ‘Doda’performs on stage in Chorzow, Poland. Photograph: Michal Meissner/EPA
People celebrate during New Year’s celebrations at Madrid’s Puerta del Sol square in downtown Madrid, Spain. Photograph: Manu Fernández/AP
Fireworks light the sky above the Quadriga at the Brandenburg Gate during New Year’s celebrations shortly after midnight in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi) Photograph: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP
People celebrate during New Year’s celebrations at Madrid’s Puerta del Sol square in downtown Madrid, Spain, early Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez) Photograph: Manu Fernández/AP
Fireworks explode in the sky around the London Eye and Big Ben, London. Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images
