FIRST COUNTRIES IN WELCOMING 2017

Sat 10:00 - Tonga, Samoa and Christmas Island/Kiribati

• Sat 13:00 - Much of Australia 
• Sat 15:00 - Japan, South Korea, small parts of Russian and Indonesia
• Sat 18:30 - India and Sri Lanka
• Sat 20:00 - Azerbaijan and eight other countries including Armenia, UAE, Oman and the Seychelles
• Sat 22:00 - Greece and 30 other countries, including South Africa, Syria, Finland and Latvia
• Sat 23:00 - Germany and 43 other countries, including Norway, France, Italy and Tunisia
• Sun 00:00 - UK and 26 other countries, including Morocco, Ghana and Ireland
• Sun 04:00 - Small regions of Canada and 29 other countries including Bolivia, Venezuela and Barbados
• Sun 06:00 - Large parts of the U.S and Central America
• Sun 09:00 - Alaska/USA and regions of French Polynesia ​
• Sun 12:00 - Much of US Minor Outlying Islands

THE FIRST TO WELCOME THE NEW YEAR

THE FIRST COUNTRY TO WELCOME THE NEW YEAR

The first country in the world to welcome the New Year is the tiny pacific island of Tonga. It will ring in 2017 at 10am GMT on December 31st.