New Year’s Countdown 2027: When Midnight Arrives in Every Time Zone

Kiritimati in the Kiribati Line Islands (UTC+14) reaches midnight on Jan. 1, 2027 at 10:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) on Thursday, Dec. 31, 2026. That is 5:00 a.m. Eastern Time (ET) and 19 hours before New York, according to the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) time zone database. The table below converts local midnight for 32 UTC offsets into ET and UTC.

The last midnight in the table, American Samoa and Niue at UTC-11, arrives at 6:00 a.m. ET on Friday, Jan. 1. From the first midnight to the last is 25 hours.

Midnight on Jan. 1, 2027 in every UTC offset

ET in December is UTC-5, so each local midnight converts by subtracting the offset from 24:00 UTC and then five more hours for ET. The rows are sorted earliest first. Places on daylight time are marked, because that changes their offset on this date.

UTC offset	Where	Midnight in ET	Midnight in UTC
UTC+14	Kiritimati (Kiribati Line Islands)	5:00 a.m. Dec. 31	10:00 a.m. Dec. 31
UTC+13:45	Chatham Islands (New Zealand, daylight time)	5:15 a.m. Dec. 31	10:15 a.m. Dec. 31
UTC+13	Auckland and Wellington (New Zealand daylight time), Tonga, Kanton (Kiribati)	6:00 a.m. Dec. 31	11:00 a.m. Dec. 31
UTC+12	Fiji, Tarawa (Kiribati)	7:00 a.m. Dec. 31	12:00 p.m. Dec. 31
UTC+11	Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Hobart (Australian daylight time), Solomon Islands	8:00 a.m. Dec. 31	1:00 p.m. Dec. 31
UTC+10:30	Adelaide (daylight time)	8:30 a.m. Dec. 31	1:30 p.m. Dec. 31
UTC+10	Brisbane, Guam	9:00 a.m. Dec. 31	2:00 p.m. Dec. 31
UTC+9:30	Darwin	9:30 a.m. Dec. 31	2:30 p.m. Dec. 31
UTC+9	Tokyo, Seoul	10:00 a.m. Dec. 31	3:00 p.m. Dec. 31
UTC+8	Beijing, Singapore, Manila, Perth	11:00 a.m. Dec. 31	4:00 p.m. Dec. 31
UTC+7	Bangkok, Jakarta	12:00 p.m. Dec. 31	5:00 p.m. Dec. 31
UTC+6	Dhaka	1:00 p.m. Dec. 31	6:00 p.m. Dec. 31
UTC+5:45	Kathmandu	1:15 p.m. Dec. 31	6:15 p.m. Dec. 31
UTC+5:30	India	1:30 p.m. Dec. 31	6:30 p.m. Dec. 31
UTC+5	Pakistan	2:00 p.m. Dec. 31	7:00 p.m. Dec. 31
UTC+4	Dubai	3:00 p.m. Dec. 31	8:00 p.m. Dec. 31
UTC+3:30	Tehran	3:30 p.m. Dec. 31	8:30 p.m. Dec. 31
UTC+3	Moscow, Istanbul, Riyadh	4:00 p.m. Dec. 31	9:00 p.m. Dec. 31
UTC+2	Cairo, Athens, Johannesburg	5:00 p.m. Dec. 31	10:00 p.m. Dec. 31
UTC+1	Paris, Berlin, Rome, Lagos	6:00 p.m. Dec. 31	11:00 p.m. Dec. 31
UTC+0	London, Lisbon, Morocco	7:00 p.m. Dec. 31	12:00 a.m. Jan. 1
UTC-1	Azores	8:00 p.m. Dec. 31	1:00 a.m. Jan. 1
UTC-3	Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Santiago (Chile daylight time), Paraguay	10:00 p.m. Dec. 31	3:00 a.m. Jan. 1
UTC-3:30	St. John’s, Newfoundland	10:30 p.m. Dec. 31	3:30 a.m. Jan. 1
UTC-4	Halifax, Puerto Rico, Cuba	11:00 p.m. Dec. 31	4:00 a.m. Jan. 1
UTC-5	New York, Toronto, Winnipeg	12:00 a.m. Jan. 1	5:00 a.m. Jan. 1
UTC-6	Chicago, Mexico City, Calgary, Edmonton, Yellowknife	1:00 a.m. Jan. 1	6:00 a.m. Jan. 1
UTC-7	Denver, Phoenix, Vancouver	2:00 a.m. Jan. 1	7:00 a.m. Jan. 1
UTC-8	Los Angeles	3:00 a.m. Jan. 1	8:00 a.m. Jan. 1
UTC-9	Anchorage	4:00 a.m. Jan. 1	9:00 a.m. Jan. 1
UTC-10	Honolulu	5:00 a.m. Jan. 1	10:00 a.m. Jan. 1
UTC-11	Pago Pago (American Samoa), Niue	6:00 a.m. Jan. 1	11:00 a.m. Jan. 1

Zone boundaries follow the IANA database as updated through its 2026f release. For the U.S. zones, federal law (15 U.S. Code 261) sets standard time 4 hours behind UTC for Atlantic, 5 for Eastern, 6 for Central, 7 for Mountain, 8 for Pacific, 9 for Alaska, 10 for Hawaii-Aleutian and 11 for Samoa.

Which places changed their New Year moment in 2026?

Several Canadian, Cuban and Moroccan rules changed in 2026, so older “same time as” comparisons no longer hold. The IANA release notes record each change.

Place	What changed	IANA release	Result for New Year 2027
Alberta (Calgary, Edmonton)	Permanent UTC-6 since June 18, 2026	2026c (July 8, 2026)	Midnight at 1:00 a.m. ET, with Chicago
British Columbia (Vancouver)	Permanent UTC-7 since March 9, 2026	2026b (April 22, 2026)	Midnight at 2:00 a.m. ET, with Denver and Phoenix
Northwest Territories (Yellowknife)	Permanent UTC-6 since Aug. 21, 2026	2026d (Sept. 11, 2026)	Midnight at 1:00 a.m. ET, with Chicago
Manitoba (Winnipeg)	Permanent UTC-5 from Oct. 31, 2026	2026e (Sept. 29, 2026)	Midnight at 12:00 a.m. ET, with Toronto
Morocco	Permanent UTC+0 since Sept. 20, 2026	2026c (July 8, 2026)	Midnight at 7:00 p.m. ET Dec. 31, with London
Cuba	Stays on UTC-4 through Nov. 7, 2027	2026f (Oct. 27, 2026)	Midnight at 11:00 p.m. ET Dec. 31, with Halifax
Paraguay	Permanent UTC-3 since 2025	2025a	Midnight at 10:00 p.m. ET Dec. 31, with Rio de Janeiro

When does New York ring in 2027?

New York, Toronto and Winnipeg share UTC-5, so midnight there falls at 12:00 a.m. ET on Friday, Jan. 1, 2027, which is 5:00 UTC. For the Times Square timing and where to watch, see our Times Square ball drop guide. Our January 2027 printable calendar starts the new year on a Friday.

Which places are on daylight time on Dec. 31?

Daylight time in the southern hemisphere shifts several of the earliest midnights. New Zealand’s daylight saving started on Sept. 27, 2026 at 2 a.m. and ends on April 4, 2027 at 3 a.m., per the New Zealand Government, which puts Auckland and Wellington at UTC+13. In Australia, New South Wales daylight saving started Sunday, Oct. 4, 2026 and ends Sunday, April 4, 2027. New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory observe it, while Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory do not. That is why Sydney (UTC+11), Brisbane (UTC+10) and Perth (UTC+8) reach midnight at three different hours.

Our New Year’s Eve date page and the printable yearly calendar cover the date itself. For other end-of-year dates, see December 2026 important dates.

Print the countdown list

The printable “New Year 2027 Countdown Around the World” lists all 32 offsets with their ET midnight, earliest first, so you can mark the ones you want to watch.

What the table does not cover

The table lists the offsets from the fact sources above. It does not claim to include every offset in use or every uninhabited island,.