Sydney Harbour New Years Eve

Sydney Harbour is one of the world's most famous to celebrate New Years Eve along with Edinburgh and Times Square in New York.

The Sydney Harbour fireworks display is now legendary around the world and is featured on TV and magazines around the world. Sydney is the first major international city in the world to see the New Year. As its the middle of the Australian summer it’s almost guaranteed to be nice and warm night.

The Sydney New Years Eve fireworks display costs more than a million dollars every year and is watched live by more than half a million live and millions more on the live television broadcasts. Sydney locals usually make a day of it and the prime vantage points such as the Opera House and Mrs Macquarie’s Point are absolutely packed by midday.

From about 1pm in the afternoon the Sydney New Years Eve festivities start and there is something happening something happening on the hour, every hour, including the firing of the cannons at Port Dennison, skywriting, aerial flyovers and para-gliding.

Once it gets dark things really start kicking off and the New Years Eve Celebrations change gear beginning with the family fireworks display at 9pm. This initial fireworks display may not be as impressive as the later version but it serves its purpose and satisfies countless of children before they are shuffled off to bed.

At midnight the fireworks launched from barges located throughout Sydney Harbour and installed in 69 different positions on the Sydney Harbour Bridge all come to life to provide one of the worlds best fireworks displays

The very best viewing spots for the Sydney Harbour New Years Eve Fireworks display are the Opera House and Mrs Macquarie’s Point. Naturally these spots will also be the most crowded areas, and are theoretically family orientated, but they’re also the spots where it will probably be most memorable.