50 Ways to Celebrate New Year Traditions Around the World (2022-2023)

[Updated 12/15/2022]  Did you know that more people celebrate New Years around the world than any other holiday? But, of course, that doesn’t mean that we all have the same New Year Traditions.

How I celebrate the New Year– watching the NYC countdown on television, kissing at midnight, champagne toasts, and fireworks– may be relatively commonplace in the United States. But New Year customs vary widely in different cultures around the world.

Each country seems to have its own unique New Years celebrations, with different customs for ensuring health, wealth, happiness, and luck in the coming year.

As we learn more about the various New Years celebrations around the world, we may discover strange cultural twists that seem foreign to us.

But these unique variations in the way people celebrate the New Year are part of what makes exploring the world so great.

So let’s take a look at some of the more interesting New Year traditions around the world and see how people will be ringing in the next year. Who knows? Maybe we can find something fun along the way to adopt into our own New Year celebrations.

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Ways to Celebrate New Year Traditions Guide

1. 1. Celebrate the New Year At Home
   2. New Year’s Eve Food Traditions
   3. Which Country Celebrates New Years First?
   4. Traditional New Year’s Clothing
   5. New Year’s Festivals Around the World
   6. New Year Traditions for Good Luck
   7. Shared New Year’s Eve Traditions Around the World
      1. New Year’s Song: Auld Lang Syne
      2. New Year’s Resolutions
      3. New Year’s Fireworks
      4. New Year’s Champagne
      5. New Year’s Kiss

1. How to Celebrate the New Year at Home

The home plays an important role in many countries’ New Year’s traditions, which can involve everything from intense cleaning sessions to inviting special guests. Regardless of how it’s done, home is where many people celebrate New Year’s Eve and Day.

Argentina:  Speaking of throwing things out the window… In Argentina on New Year’s Day, after everyone has shredded old documents and paper, the scraps are thrown out the window like confetti. It’s customary for everything to be shredded, symbolizing leaving the past behind.

China: To symbolize happiness and good luck in the New Year, Chinese celebrants paint their front doors red. In general, red colors New Years Eve in China, with red packets of money for children, red rackets for married…