New Year's Eve 2022/23: This is how Germany and the world celebrates - it takes 26 hours until everyone is in the new year

Created: 12/31/2022 9:21 am

By: Kathrin Reikowski

New Year's Eve 2022: This is how the world starts in 2023 (photomontage).

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After two years of corona restrictions around the world, New Year's Eve is once again celebrated with fireworks.

Two uninhabited islands are the last to enter the new year.

Berlin - The world is celebrating New Year's Eve almost like it used to be, before Corona: For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, the Brazilian metropolis of Rio de Janeiro is celebrating again at Copacabana with fireworks and concerts without restrictions.

In New York (USA), the traditional New Year's Eve party has been announced in Times Square, where a blue ball traditionally sinks to the ground when the ball drops.

In London (Great Britain), for the first time since the turn of the year 2019/20, there will be New Year's fireworks on the "London Eye" Ferris wheel - more than 100,000 ticket holders are expected in the city centre.

Celebrations are on again in Rio de Janeiro: up to two million people are expected at Copacabana.

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Billions of people welcome the year 2023 on Sunday night.

It takes 26 hours between 11 a.m. CET on December 31st and 1 p.m. CET on January 1st for the whole globe to slide into the new year.

It starts in the island state of Kiribati, goes through Australia, Asia to Europe, South America, the US east coast, California, Hawaii to the uninhabited islands of Baker Island and Howland Island back in the Pacific.

New Year's Eve 2022: The first state starts the new year at 11 a.m. CET

• New Year's Eve celebrations on 31 December CET

• 11 a.m.: Kiribati is the first country in the world to start the new year

• 12 o'clock: e.g. New Zealand and Samoa

• 1 p.m.: e.g. Tuvalu in the Pacific

• 2 p.m.: eg Sydney in Australia welcomes the new year

• 3pm: eg parts of Australia including Brisbane

• 4 p.m.: eg South Korea and Japan

• 5 p.m.: eg Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore

• 6 p.m.: e.g. Thailand, Vietnam

• 7pm: eg Bangladesh and Bhutan

• 7.30 p.m.: eg India and Sri Lanka

• 8pm: eg Maldives and Pakistan

• 9pm: eg Armenia, United Arab Emirates

• 10 pm: eg Turkey, Russia's capital Moscow, Kenya

• 11 p.m.: eg Ukraine, Greece, Finland, Baltic States, Romania

• 12:00 a.m.: eg Germany and large parts of the EU

Unlike in previous years, there is no longer a ban on the sale of fireworks before New Year's Eve in Germany.

Therefore, there could be many more emergencies and incidents again.

According to the German Weather Service, it will be unusually mild again on New Year's Eve.

In many places, the temperatures on New Year's Eve are likely to be in the double digits - the warmest New Year's Eve since 1881 is imminent.

The DWD warns that it is particularly windy in the northwestern half of Germany and New Year's rockets could be blown away by the wind.

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In Berlin there is again a party with an audience at the Brandenburg Gate, at midnight there should be no fireworks, but a light show.

ZDF broadcasts its New Year's Eve show "Welcome 2023" from there - Andrea Kiewel and Johannes B. Kerner present the show for the first time from the east side, Pariser Platz.

In Germany, after two comparatively quiet New Year's Eve nights, hospitals, police and fire brigades expect to have much more work and operations than in 2021/22 and 2020/21.

In the past two years, the sale of fireworks for New Year's Eve was also banned to relieve hospitals of additional patients during the pandemic period.

The medical organization Marburger Bund called for firecrackers to be careful – including onlookers.

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In Berlin, a spokesman for the accident hospital said that more injuries such as torn off fingers after unsuccessful fireworks are expected.

"We assume that operations will continue from around 3 a.m. until late on New Year's Eve." Two groups are particularly at risk: drunk people who handle fireworks improperly.

"And kids on New Year's Day who want to pick up and light unlit fireworks or duds."

New Year's Eve 2022: This is how the world celebrates - Ukrainians don't let the feast be taken away

New Year's Eve is celebrated almost like before the pandemic in other major cities around the world.

In Sydney there will again be a huge firework display at the famous opera house, in Dubai later on at the tallest building in the world – a new world record is to be set there with a laser show.

In addition, a light show with hundreds of drones is planned in the Emirati metropolis.

• The New Year's Eve celebrations on January 1st (CET):

• 1 o'clock: e.g. Great Britain, Portugal, Iceland

• 2 o'clock: e.g. Cape Verde

• 4 o'clock: eg parts of Brazil (Rio), Argentina, Uruguay

• 5 o'clock: e.g. Bolivia, Venezuela

• 6 o'clock: eg US east coast with New York, also Cuba, Peru

• 7 p.m.: e.g. Mexico City and parts of the USA (Chicago)

• 9 o'clock: eg California in the USA with Los Angeles

• 10 a.m.: e.g. Alaska (USA)

• 11 am: e.g. Honolulu in Hawaii (USA)

• 12 p.m.: e.g. Pago Pago (American Samoa)

• 1 p.m.: Baker Island and Howland Island in the Pacific (uninhabited)

In Kyiv, Ukraine, on the other hand, martial law continues to apply.

In the capital, which has repeatedly been shelled with rockets, it is illegal to set off fireworks.

Although many restaurants are festively decorated, people often sit in the dark after Russian attacks on power plants due to power failures.

Despite the war, many Ukrainians don't miss out on the New Year's presents and a celebratory meal.

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(dpa/kat)