About New Year

Happy New Year! This greeting gives rise to a mystifying sense of happiness, which is associated with the excitement of the arrival of a brand New Year. New Year is the time when people all over the world gets ready to bid goodbye to an entire year and to welcome a new phase of life with the arrival of a New Year. As the time of New Year comes near, all of us get ready to know more about New Year traditions and to celebrate New Year in one of the most beautiful ways. It would be wrong to assign dates to New Year as the New Year celebration is not only about dates, it is more about the emotions of people associated with the New Year celebrations.

The first day on the Gregorian calendar is celebrated as the New Year. January 1st is popularly known as the New Year day in modern times. Another practice now a days, is celebrating the New Year's Eve, which falls on December 31st, a day before New Year. It is basically to commemorate the by-gone year and usher in the New Year with elegance and grace. People indulge in partying with family and friends and there are grand displays of fireworks at the stroke of midnight.

Celebrating the New Year Day people welcome the coming year and bid adieu to the old. People express their wish that the new year will be filled with health, happiness and prosperity for themselves and all their dear ones. Feasting and merry-making is an integral part of New Year's Day celebrations.

Please click on the links below to understand the traditions, customs and origins of New Year's Day and New Year's Eve celebration. The New Year's Date page lists the New Year's Date of different countries and communities around the world.