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Overview
- Kiritimati in Kiribati marked the first New Year at 07:00 BRT, followed by the Chatham Islands at 07:15 and most of New Zealand by 08:00 with Auckland’s five‑minute Sky Tower show using about 500 kg of pyrotechnics.
- Australia turned at roughly 10:00 BRT, with Sydney’s harbor display featuring about 40,000 pyrotechnic effects after a minute of silence for victims of the Bondi attack.
- Major Asian cities followed in Brasília time conversions, including Tokyo at 12:00 BRT and Beijing at 13:00, with regional celebrations reported across Japan, the Koreas, China, Hong Kong and Singapore.
- Dubai ushered in 2026 at local midnight (about 14:00 BRT) with a Burj Khalifa fireworks and lights spectacular that included roughly 6,500 drones and attempts at multiple world records.
- Europe reaches midnight in the Brasília evening, with London at 21:00 BRT, while the Americas follow on Jan. 1, including New York at 02:00 BRT, most of Brazil at 00:00 BRT, Acre at 02:00, and the final turn at Baker and Howland Islands around 09:00 BRT.