We made a list – Pick a country and celebrate the 2026 New Year during midnight wherever they are

Scroll down for the list!

Happy New Year! If you don’t want to stay up until midnight in the Central Standard Time Zone to celebrate 2026, just pick a country from our list below! As I write this, it’s 2026 in Adelaide, Australia. They are two hours away from being directly on the other side of the world from us. 🙃

Take a look at the list we made, so that you can see when a certain country is celebrating. Christmas Island was first, at 6:00 AM. Two tiny islands in the United States will be last. Do you know their names?

Read the list below…

We made a list of countries and their major cities, organized by when they celebrate the New Year. Of course they celebrate at midnight 🕛so we added what time that would be in the U.S. Central Standard Time Zone (CST, UTC-6).

🕡6:00 AM CST, Dec. 31

Kiribati – Kiritimati (Christmas Island)

🕖7:00 AM CST, Dec. 31

New Zealand – Auckland, Wellington
Fiji – Suva
Tonga – Nukuʻalofa

🕗8:00 AM CST, Dec. 31

Russia – Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (Kamchatka Peninsula)

🕘9:00 AM CST, Dec. 31

Australia – Sydney, Melbourne
Marshall Islands – Majuro
Vanuatu – Port Vila

🕙10:00 AM CST, Dec. 31

Australia – Adelaide, Darwin
Papua New Guinea – Port Moresby

🕚11:00 AM CST, Dec. 31

Japan – Tokyo
South Korea – Seoul
North Korea – Pyongyang
Indonesia (East) – Jayapura
Timor-Leste – Dili
Russia – Vladivostok

🕛12:00 PM CST, Dec. 31 (Noon)

China – Beijing, Shanghai
Philippines – Manila
Malaysia – Kuala Lumpur
Singapore – Singapore
Taiwan – Taipei
Hong Kong – Hong Kong
Macau – Macau
Australia – Perth

🕐1:00 PM CST, Dec. 31

Thailand – Bangkok
Vietnam – Hanoi
Cambodia – Phnom Penh
Laos – Vientiane
Indonesia (Central) – Bali
Russia – Irkutsk

🕐2:00 PM CST, Dec. 31

Myanmar – Yangon
India – New Delhi, Mumbai
Sri Lanka – Colombo
Nepal – Kathmandu

🕒3:00 PM CST, Dec. 31

Pakistan – Islamabad, Karachi
Maldives – Malé
Mauritius – Port Louis
Russia – Yekaterinburg
Kazakhstan – Almaty

🕓4:00 PM CST, Dec. 31

United Arab Emirates – Dubai
Oman – Muscat
Armenia – Yerevan
Georgia – Tbilisi
Azerbaijan – Baku

🕔5:00 PM CST, Dec. 31

Russia – Moscow
Saudi Arabia – Riyadh
Iraq – Baghdad
Kenya – Nairobi
Uganda – Kampala
Jordan – Amman
Israel – Jerusalem
Lebanon – Beirut
Qatar – Doha
Bahrain – Manama
Kuwait – Kuwait City

🕡6:00 PM CST, Dec. 31

Egypt – Cairo
South Africa – Johannesburg
Greece – Athens
Turkey – Istanbul
Romania – Bucharest
Finland – Helsinki
Estonia – Tallinn
Latvia – Riga
Lithuania – Vilnius

🕖7:00 PM CST, Dec. 31

Germany – Berlin
France – Paris
Spain – Madrid, Barcelona
Italy – Rome
Netherlands – Amsterdam
Belgium – Brussels
Austria – Vienna
Poland – Warsaw
Czech Republic – Prague
Sweden – Stockholm
Norway – Oslo
Switzerland – Zurich
Hungary – Budapest
Croatia – Zagreb
Serbia – Belgrade
Slovakia – Bratislava

🕗8:00 PM CST, Dec. 31

United Kingdom – London
Ireland – Dublin
Portugal – Lisbon
Iceland – Reykjavik
Morocco – Casablanca
Senegal – Dakar
Mali – Bamako
Ghana – Accra

🕘9:00 PM CST, Dec. 31

Brazil (East) – Brasília, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro
Argentina – Buenos Aires
Uruguay – Montevideo
Paraguay – Asunción
French Guiana – Cayenne

🕙10:00 PM CST, Dec. 31

Bolivia – La Paz
Venezuela – Caracas
Chile – Santiago
Canada (Atlantic) – Halifax
Dominican Republic – Santo Domingo
Cuba – Havana
Puerto Rico – San Juan
Haiti – Port-au-Prince

🕚11:00 PM CST, Dec. 31

United States (Eastern Time) – New York City, Atlanta, Miami
Canada (Eastern) – Toronto, Ottawa
Jamaica – Kingston
Bahamas – Nassau
Panama – Panama City
Colombia – Bogotá

🕛12:00 AM CST, Jan. 1

United States (Central Time) – This is us! Chicago, Dallas, Little Rock, Alexander, Avilla, Bauxite, Benton, Bryant, Crows, Crows Station, East End, Fairplay, Haskell, Hensley, Hot Springs Village, Lake Norrell, Lonsdale, Mabelvale, Owensville, Paron, Salem, Sardis, Shannon Hills, Shaw, Traskwood, Tull, and Turtle Creek.
Mexico (Central) – Mexico City
Guatemala – Guatemala City
Honduras – Tegucigalpa
Nicaragua – Managua
El Salvador – San Salvador

🕐1:00 AM CST, Jan. 1