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When the ball drops in New York’s Times Square to announce the start of 2025, it will indeed be late to the party as dozens of countries around the world have already welcomed the new year.

Kiribati is an island nation in the central Pacific Ocean, and its largest island, Kiritimati, will be the first place to begin 2025 when it is just 5 a.m. and 11 a.m. UTC on December 31 on the east coast of the United States (coordinated) is Universal Time, the global standard).

The Pacific island nation will be followed by New Zealand’s Chatham Islands at 5:15 a.m. ET and then most of New Zealand at 6 a.m., along with Tokelau, Samoa, Tonga, Kiribati’s Phoenix Islands and some regions of Antarctica.

Meanwhile, across the International Date Line, Hawaii, American Samoa and many of the U.S. offshore islands will be among the last places to pop champagne corks. You’ll have to wait until Wednesday morning (Eastern Time) to toast 2025.

In total, there are 39 different local time zones in effect around the world – some differing from surrounding zones by 15 or 30 minutes – including two that are more than 12 hours ahead of UTC, meaning it takes 26 hours for the entire world to be around to welcome the new year.

So if you really, really, really love humming “Auld Lang Syne,” the following list will keep you in the mood throughout the day.

This is the time when places around the world ring in the New Year compared to East Coast Time.

5 p.m. ET Kiritimati, also known as Christmas Island, is part of the Micronesian island state of Kiribati

5:15 a.m. ET Chatham Islands, off the east coast of New Zealand

6 a.m. ET Most of New Zealand (with a few exceptions), as well as Tokelau, Samoa, Tonga, the Phoenix Islands of Kiribati and some regions of Antarctica

7 a.m. ET Fiji, a small part of eastern Russia and several other Pacific islands including the Marshall Islands and Tuvalu

8 a.m. ET Much of Australia, including Melbourne and Sydney, and seven other locations including Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, Bougainville in Papua New Guinea and New Caledonia

8:30 a.m. ET A small region of Australia, including Adelaide

9 a.m. ET The Australian state of Queensland and six other locations including parts of Micronesia, the Northern Mariana Islands, a small part of Antarctica and Guam

9:30 a.m. ET Australia’s Northern Territory

10 a.m. ET Japan, South Korea, a small part of Russia, North Korea, a small part of Indonesia, Timor-Leste and Palau

10:15 a.m. ET Western Australia

11 a.m. ET China, Philippines, Malaysia, parts of Indonesia, most of Mongolia, Taiwan, Brunei, Russian Irkutsk region, some parts of Antarctica, Hong Kong, Singapore and Macau

Noon ET Large parts of Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, some parts of Russia, some parts of Mongolia, a small region of Antarctica and Australia’s Christmas Island

12:30 p.m. ET Myanmar and the Cocos Islands, an Australian territory

1 p.m. ET Bangladesh, parts of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Bhutan, the British Indian Ocean Territory, the city of Omsk in Russia and a small part of Antarctica

1:15 p.m. ET Nepal

1:30 p.m. ET India and Sri Lanka

2 p.m. ET Pakistan, some parts of Russia, large parts of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, the Maldives, Tajikistan, the French Southern Territories, the French Kerguelen Islands and a small region of Antarctica

2:30 p.m. ET Afghanistan

3pm ET Azerbaijan, the United Arab Emirates, Armenia, a small region of Russia, Oman, much of Georgia, the French island of Reunion, Mauritius and the Seychelles

3:30 p.m. ET Iran

4 p.m. ET Moscow in Russia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya as well as 17 other locations

5:00 p.m. ET Greece, Egypt, Lebanon, Rwanda, Romania and 26 other locations

6pm ET Germany, Nigeria, Algeria, Italy, Belgium, Morocco, Albania, France and 38 other locations

7pm ET United Kingdom, Portugal, Iceland, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Ghana, Sierra Leone and 18 other locations

8pm ET Cabo Verde, the Azores – made up of nine enchanting islands in the Atlantic but part of Portugal – and a small region of Greenland

9pm ET Most of Greenland, the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, as well as South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

10 p.m. ET Most of Brazil, Argentina, Chile with exceptions, Uruguay, parts of Antarctica, Paraguay, French Guiana, Suriname, St. Pierre and Miquelon and the Falkland Islands

10:30 p.m. ET Canada’s province of Newfoundland and Labrador

11 p.m. ET Some regions of Canada, Venezuela, Bolivia, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Aruba, Guyana and 23 other locations

midnight The East Coast of the United States (including New York City, Washington, DC and Detroit), parts of Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Cuba, Acre in Brazil, Panama, a small part of Mexico, Haiti, Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands, Jamaica, one small region of Chile and the Cayman Islands

1 a.m. ET Central USA (including Chicago), large parts of Mexico (including Mexico City), parts of Canada, Honduras, Belize, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, and a small part of Ecuador

2 a.m. ET United States (Mountain Time Zone, including Denver and Phoenix), parts of Canada (including Edmonton and Calgary), and parts of Mexico

3 a.m. ET United States (Pacific Time Zone, including Los Angeles and San Francisco), British Columbia in Canada, Baja California in Mexico, Pitcairn Islands and Clipperton Island

4 p.m. ET Alaska in the USA and regions of French Polynesia

4:30 a.m. ET Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia

5 p.m. ET Hawaii in the USA, Tahiti in French Polynesia and the Cook Islands

6 a.m. ET American Samoa, parts of the smaller U.S. offshore islands (including Midway Atoll), and Niue, an island nation in the South Pacific

7 a.m. ET Much of the smaller U.S. offshore islands (unincorporated U.S. territories in the Pacific), including Baker Island and Howland Island