New Year is traditionally celebrated almost all over the world on December 31st. However, the first to celebrate the New Year begin in the dwarf Kingdom of Tonga in the Pacific Ocean. And they complete - in Haiti and Samoa - in 25 hours.

0.15 - Chatham Island ( New Zealand), distant from the main islands of New Zealand, is in a special time zone and is the second place where the New Year comes.

1.00 - New Zealand (Wellington, Auckland, etc.) and polar explorers from the South Pole in Antarctica celebrate the New Year.

2.00 - The New Year begins with the inhabitants of the extreme Eastern Russia(Anadyr, Kamchatka), the Fiji Islands and some other Pacific islands (Nauru, Tuvalu, etc.)

2.30 - Norfolk Island (Australia).

3.00 - Part eastern australia(Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra) and some Pacific Islands (Vanuatu, Micronesia, Solomon Islands, etc.).

Australia. Sydney is having a big party. On New Year's Eve, the whole city looks like an incomparably decorated Christmas tree, the branches of which bend under the weight of all the decorations. The sky over Sydney sparkles with numerous salutes and fireworks.

3.30 - South Australia(Adelaide).

4.00 - Queensland in Australia (Brisbane), part of Russia (Vladivostok) and some islands ( Papua New Guinea, Mariana Islands).

4.30 - Northern Territories of Australia (Darwin).

5.00 - Japan and Korea.

In Japan, New Year is celebrated on January 1st. Mandatory is the custom of seeing off the Old Year, which includes organizing receptions and visiting restaurants. At the beginning of the new year, the Japanese begin to laugh. They believe that laughter will bring them good luck in the coming year.

6.00 - China, part South-East Asia and the rest of Australia.

7.00 - Indonesia and the rest of Southeast Asia.

7.30 - Myanmar.

8.00 - Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Part of Russia (Novosibirsk, Omsk).

8.15 - Nepal.

8.30 - India.

In India, the New Year is celebrated in different ways. In one part, the holiday is considered open when a kite is struck by a burning arrow.

9.00 - Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and part of Russia (Yekaterinburg, Ufa).

9.30 - Afghanistan.

10.00 - Armenia, Azerbaijan, part of Russia (Samara), some islands in the Indian Ocean.

10.30 - Iran.

11.00 - Part East Asia, part of Africa, part of Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg).

12.00 - Eastern Europe (Romania, Greece, Ukraine, etc.), Turkey, Israel, Finland, part of Africa.
Finland. Finnish families gather at a New Year's table full of various dishes. The kids are waiting for a big basket of gifts from Joulupukki, that's the name of the Finnish Santa Claus. On New Year's Eve, Finns tell fortunes to find out their future.

In Greece, New Year's Day is Saint Basil's Day. Saint Basil was known for his kindness, and Greek children leave their shoes by the fireplace in the hope that Saint Basil will fill the shoes with gifts.

13.00 - Western and Central Europe (Belgium, Italy, France, Hungary, Sweden, etc.), part of Africa.

Italy. As soon as the New Year has begun, the Italians are in a hurry to get rid of things that have already served their purpose. In Italy, the custom has been preserved to bring clean water from a spring on the first morning of the new year, as it is believed that water brings happiness.

France. Even before Christmas, the French hang a branch of mistletoe over the door of their houses, believing that it will bring good luck next year. In addition, the French decorate the whole house with flowers, be sure to put them on the table. In each house they try to place a model depicting the scene of the birth of Christ. According to tradition, a good owner-winemaker on New Year's Eve should clink glasses with a barrel of wine, congratulate her on the holiday and drink for the future harvest.

14.00 - Zero meridian (Greenwich), UK, Portugal, part of Africa.

United Kingdom. In England, the ringing of a bell is broadcast. The British have a tradition to let the old year out of the house, they open the back doors of the houses before the ringing of the bell, and then open the entrance doors to let in New Year. New Year's gifts in the family circle of the British are distributed according to the old tradition - by lot.

15.00 - Azores.

16.00 - Brazil.

Brazil. On New Year's Eve, the inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro go to the ocean and bring gifts to the Goddess of the Sea Yemanzha. Traditionally, Brazilians dress up in white clothes, which symbolizes a plea for peace addressed to the goddess of the Sea.

17.00 - Argentina and part of the eastern part of South America.

17.30 - Newfoundland Island (Canada).

18.00 - Eastern Canada, many islands of the Caribbean, part of South America.

19.00 - Eastern parts of Canada (Ottawa) and USA (Washington, New York), western part of South America.

USA. In New York, in Times Square, the traditional solemn descent of the famous Ball, sparkling with thousands of neon lights, takes place.

20.00 - Central parts of Canada and the USA (Chicago, Houston), Mexico and most of Latin America.

21.00 - Part of Canada (Edmonton, Calgary) and the USA (Denver, Phoenix, Salt Lake City).

22.00 - Western parts of Canada (Vancouver, and the USA (Los Angeles, San Francisco).

23.00 - State of Alaska (USA).

23.30 - Marquesas Islands as part of French Polynesia.

24.00 - Hawaiian Islands(USA), Tahiti and the Cook Islands.

25.00 - Residents of the state of Samoa are the last to celebrate the New Year.

So, Saudi Arabia does not celebrate the New Year in principle. The fact is that the celebration of the change of dates is considered alien to Islam in principle. For the faithful in Saudi Arabia There are only three holidays: Independence Day, the celebration of the end of the month of Ramadan and the Feast of the Sacrifice.

In Israel, January 1 is also a working day, unless, of course, it is Saturday - a holy day for the Jews. The Israelis celebrate their New Year in the fall - on the new moon of the month of Tishrei according to the Jewish calendar (September or October). This holiday is called Rosh Hashanah. It is celebrated for 2 days.

January 1 is an ordinary day in Iran. The country lives according to the Persian calendar. The New Year is celebrated in Iran on the day of the spring equinox - March 21. The holiday is called Navruz, that is, a new day.

In multicultural India, there are so many holidays that if you had to celebrate everything, there would be no time to work. Therefore, some of them have become "holidays of choice". These days, all institutions and offices are open, but employees can take time off. January 1 is one of those holidays. March 22 is the New Year according to the unified national calendar of India. In Kerala, New Year is celebrated on April 13th. It is called Vishu. Sikhs celebrate their New Year, Vaisakhi, on the same day. In South India, the Divapali festival is widely celebrated in autumn, which also means the arrival of the new year. This is far from complete list new year's days that can be celebrated in India. By the way, among the "holidays to choose from" there is also Catholic Christmas.

AT South Korea January 1 is a day off. Decorated Christmas trees and Santa Clauses are common here, but the beginning of the year in Korea is perceived rather than as a holiday, but as an additional day off that can be spent in a pleasant circle of family and friends. But if something is celebrated on an unprecedented scale, it is Sollal - the New Year according to the lunar calendar. By this day, most Koreans leave for their hometowns to honor the memory of their ancestors.

When we are feverishly preparing for the New Year, in some places people already have time to sleep after the festive festivities, because there are places in the world where the New Year is celebrated eleven hours earlier than in.

We will tell you about the places where residents celebrate the New Year before us!

Traditionally, the people of Kiribati, a state located on islands and atolls in the western part of the Pacific Ocean, celebrate the New Year before everyone else. In 1994, in this country, which is located on 33 islands, a presidential candidate promised that if he won the election, he would ensure that the people of Kiribati would celebrate the New Year before anyone else. Therefore, after the elections, the country was divided into three time zones, and now in the easternmost part the New Year is celebrated 11 hours earlier than in Belarus.

In the same time zone is the Tokelau archipelago, which includes a group of islands consisting of three coral atolls: Atafu, Nukunono and Fakaofo, which are administered by New Zealand. Here, the time zone change happened as recently as 2011, and the main reason for this was the difficulties in relations with New Zealand. Previously, these islands were in a different time zone.

An hour later, the New Year is celebrated by the inhabitants of Samoa, Island state in the South Pacific. In 2011, there was a time zone change in such a way that Samoa turned out to be west of the time zones. These changes were made to simplify cooperation with Australia and New Zealand.

At the same time as the people of Samoa, the New Year will be celebrated by the people of the Kingdom of Tonga, which is located on small islands one-third of the way between New Zealand and Hawaii, south of Samoa.

The next on the "temporary" line will be the inhabitants of the Chatham Islands. It is a small archipelago predominantly tectonic origin in the southwestern Pacific. Small islands have many nature reserves and in most cases are inaccessible to island residents and tourists. The Chatham Islands have their own time zone, 45 minutes different from the time in New Zealand, so the New Year will come here when it will be 13.45 in Belarus.

New Zealand will celebrate the New Year at 14.00 Belarusian time. This is the first state where you can count on a solemn celebration, such as in Auckland, New Zealand's largest city with a population of about 1.3 million people.

At the same time, residents of the state of Fiji, located on 322 islands surrounded by coral reefs. Of these, only about 110 islands are inhabited.

At the same time, the New Year will look into the eastern part of Russia, or rather, to the inhabitants of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, located on the eastern coast of the volcanic peninsula.

This group will also be joined by residents of numerous small islands and archipelagos in the Pacific Ocean - Tuvalu, Nauru and the Marshall Islands.

Let's move further west! And when we already have 15.00 on the clock, the New Year will come to New Caledonia - French overseas territory located in the western part Pacific Ocean, about 1400 km east of Australia and 1500 km northwest of New Zealand.

Among the countries celebrating the New Year at the same hour are Vanuatu, Federated States Micronesia, and Solomon islands- an island nation in southeastern Oceania, located east of New Guinea.

At the same time, the New Year will also be celebrated by residents of another Russian city - Magadan, a large port city on the coast of the Sea of ​​Okhotsk.

In our journey through time zones, we finally got to Australia, where the inhabitants of the cities are the first to start celebrating. east coast- Melbourne and Sydney. While they will celebrate the New Year, it will be only 16.00 on the Belarusian clock. How the New Year is celebrated in Australia, as well as in other countries, read the article "".

At the same time, residents of Vladivostok begin to celebrate the New Year, as well as the Pacific Islands - Guam, Marian or Papua New Guinea. But since it is already starting to get dark at this time, we are completing our an amusing trip in this time zone.

A couple of years ago, Saudi Arabia officially banned New Year's Eve. But this state is far from the only one where the traditional for us meeting of the new year goes completely unnoticed. It turns out that the New Year on January 1 is not celebrated in many countries.

On New Year's Eve, the inhabitants of our latitudes drink champagne, launch colorful fireworks and eat Russian salad. It would seem that the whole world at this moment is celebrating the onset of the new year. But this is by no means the case. Somewhere thousands of kilometers away, an ordinary Indian or Iranian snores calmly on New Year's Eve - in the morning he will start an ordinary working day.

The religious police of Saudi Arabia, Al Mutawa, warned citizens and foreigners living in the Kingdom of a ban on celebrating the New Year. A special unit of law enforcement agencies, announcing the inadmissibility of the celebration, is guided by a fatwa (religious injunction in Islam) issued by the supreme committee of Saudi ulema (Islamic preachers), since Muslims follow the lunar calendar.

Police officers contact shops that sell flowers and gifts so that they do not sell a number of goods that can be purchased on the occasion of this holiday. Al Mutawa closely monitors the implementation of norms in a purely conservative Saudi Arabia. However, cases of excess of authority by this department were often recorded, which, in particular, led to human casualties.

The Islamic New Year is celebrated on the vernal equinox, March 21, which almost always corresponds to the first day of the holy month of Muharram. The chronology is from the Hijra (July 16, 622 AD) - the date of the migration of the Prophet Muhammad and the first Muslims from Mecca to Medina.

In Israel, January 1 is also a regular working day, unless, of course, the first day of the new year happens on Saturday - a holy day for the Jews. The Israelis celebrate their New Year in the fall - on the new moon of the month of Tishrei according to the Jewish calendar (September or October). This holiday is called Rosh Hashanah. It is celebrated for two days, and many traditions, rituals and ceremonies are associated with its celebration in Israel.

As a rule, the traditions of celebrating the New Year in the sense in which it is understood in Europe and in North America, supported by the Russian diaspora living in Israel. And then everyone gets out as best they can. People try to take a day off from work and traditionally celebrate the holiday with family and friends. Someone gathers at home, and someone goes to a Russian restaurant.

Some Israelis believe that the celebrants are celebrating the day of the Catholic Saint Sylvester, which falls on December 31st. Therefore, the country often calls the New Year "Sylvester".

January 1 is not a holiday at all in Iran either. The country lives according to its own calendar. For example, it is now 1395 in Iran. The Iranian calendar, or Solar Hijra, is an astronomical solar calendar that was developed with the participation of Omar Khayyam and has since been refined several times.

New Year in Iran is celebrated according to the calendar on the first day of spring, which corresponds to March 22 of the Gregorian calendar. The New Year's holiday in Iran is called Novruz (or Noruz), and the first spring month is called Favardin.

By the way, Novruz is celebrated not only in Iran, but also in many countries where the ancient Persians managed to pretty much inherit. For example, the year in Afghanistan begins with Novruz. Along with January 1, Nowruz is celebrated in Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, Albania and Macedonia.

In multicultural India, there are so many holidays that if you had to celebrate everything, there would be no time to work. Therefore, some of them have become "holidays of choice". These days, all institutions and offices are open, but employees can take time off. January 1 is one of those holidays.

In addition, there are several other options for celebrating the arrival of the New Year in the Indian subcontinent.

On March 22, the new year begins according to the unified national calendar of India. In Maharashtra it is celebrated under the name Gudi Padwa and in Andhra Pradesh it is called Ugadi. In Kerala, New Year is celebrated on April 13th. It is called Vishu. Sikhs celebrate their New Year, Vaisakhi, on the same day. In South India, the Divapali festival is widely celebrated in autumn, which also means the arrival of the new year.

New Year in China (where it is now called Yuan-dan) passes quite unnoticed. Only in large department stores and shopping malls, paying tribute to Western traditions, they put up shiny artificial Christmas trees and puppet Santa Clauses here and there, and the Chinese send electronic New Year cards to their Western friends. And even then it is done for Christmas, and not for the New Year.

"Yuan-dan" is the first, initial day of the new year ("yuan" means "beginning", "tribute" - "dawn" or simply "day"). The New Year in China until the 20th century was counted according to the lunar calendar, and not at all according to the calendar we are used to, and Yuan-dan was celebrated on the first day of the first lunar month.

On September 27, 1949, the government of the newly established Chinese People's Republic Decided to call the first day of the lunar calendar "Spring Festival" (Chun Jie), and the first of January according to the Western calendar - "Yuan-dan". Since that time, January 1 has become an official public holiday in China. But even today, the Chinese still do not celebrate this day, not perceiving it as a holiday, marking the change of years. The "Western" New Year is not a competitor to the Lunar New Year, or the Spring Festival.

Residents of the Far East are the first to celebrate the New Year in Russia. The time difference with Moscow in such cities as Magadan, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk is 7 hours. While we are still at work, they are already celebrating the New Year in full.

The most, so to speak, the lucky ones are the inhabitants of the peninsula Kamchatka, as well as the population Chukotka autonomous region. The time difference between the capital of Russia, Moscow, and the above territorial units is as much as 9 hours! That is, when most of Russia is just getting ready for the main celebration of the year, the inhabitants of Kamchatka and Chukotka are already celebrating the New Year))

in the east of our country. On the Far East, these are the cities - Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, etc. The difference with Moscow is 7 hours, that is, in the Far East, the New Year is celebrated seven hours earlier than Moscow.

New Year comes earlier on Far East, and this is the first Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky difference with Moscow 9 hours, then Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Magadan, Khabarovsk, Vladivostok time difference 7 hours.

So what happens Kamchatka is the very first.

When everyone is only preparing for the New Year, tables are laid, Kamchatka receives congratulations from the President.

The New Year comes faster in those regions that are located in the easternmost part of Russia. In order to find out which time zone is the most distant from Moscow, you need to look at the map of time zones.

The map shows that Chukotka autonomous region(Anadyr) and the Kamchatka Territory (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky) are the most remote and the difference with Moscow is 9 hours. So, it is in these parts that the New Year is celebrated 9 hours earlier than in Moscow.



Before everyone celebrates the New Year on the territory Russian Federation residents peninsulas Kamchatka(Kamchatka Territory) and Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. These two constituent entities of the Russian Federation have a time difference with Moscow of 9 hours and this is the largest time difference in Russia with the capital of Russia, Moscow, and therefore it is there that they celebrate the New Year the very first in Russia.

The first who will meet next year are the residents of Vladivostok (7 hours difference with Moscow), Khabarovsk, Magadan - they also have a 7 hour difference, we have not sat down at the table yet, and they are already drunk)).

In Siberia, 5 hours difference, then Norilsk (4 hours difference) and then Ural (2 hours difference with Moscow)

In the very extreme eastquot ;, in the Far East, it sets in earlier ... the further east the territory is located, the earlier). The easternmost (inhabited) points Russia is on Sakhalin Island, as I understand it ... or on the islands Kuril ridge(just those that the Japanese dispute), and on the Kamchatka Peninsula. And from the cities - in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky - there the time difference with Moscow is nine hours (for Russia this difference is the maximum), which means that the New Year will come in these cities first of all - nine hours earlier, than (for example) in Moscow.

Happy New Year!

The first to celebrate the new year in Russia are the inhabitants of the Kamchatka Peninsula. Since this peninsula is located in the easternmost part of our vast country. All regions that are in this time zone are the first to celebrate the new year.

Well, if we take into account space, then most likely they are the first to celebrate the new year on the planet.

Everyone knows that due to its huge size, Russia has 11 time zones. And those regions and cities that are located in the very east of Siran and live, if I may say so, 9 hours earlier. That is, when they celebrate the New Year, it is only three in the afternoon in Moscow. This is Kamchatka, in particular Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsk, Anadyr and others.

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