# New Year's Eve 2023 fireworks around the world

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**Created:** [January 1, 2024, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-2023-fireworks-around-the-world/995427 "2024-01-01T01:50:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-2023-fireworks-around-the-world/995427/1 "2024-01-01T01:50:59Z")

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[The ones in Sydney Harbor in Australia are always spectacular](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW8O0MkdzTg) (about 14 minutes).

[Tokyo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y0li-uoXek) (about 15 minutes)

[Singapore](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6yIayDH9Vk) (about 30 minutes)

More later as we watch.

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**Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-2023-fireworks-around-the-world/995427/2 "2024-01-01T02:00:58Z")

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[Hong Kong](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx28dkeKE9c) (with music) about 12 minutes

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**Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-2023-fireworks-around-the-world/995427/3 "2024-01-01T02:16:17Z")

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[Taipei](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9mD90QRibw) (with music and minimal commentary, about 5 minutes)

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**Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-2023-fireworks-around-the-world/995427/4 "2024-01-01T02:29:31Z")

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[Cebu, Philippines](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlRMDHQpB64) (about 25 minutes)

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**Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-2023-fireworks-around-the-world/995427/5 "2024-01-01T02:41:44Z")

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[Disneyland Paris](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wABcPfqudw) (about 8 minutes)

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**Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-2023-fireworks-around-the-world/995427/6 "2024-01-01T03:14:55Z")

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[London](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2wBcCIlMGw) (about 15 minutes, produced by the BBC with music)

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**Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-2023-fireworks-around-the-world/995427/7 "2024-01-01T20:31:59Z")

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[Berlin.]([https://fireworks](https://fireworks) brandenburg gate)

Explosions in the air with searchlights sweeping the sky seems to me to be in rather bad taste.

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**Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-2023-fireworks-around-the-world/995427/8 "2024-01-01T21:09:22Z")

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I went to bed around 00:25 – my room smelled like tires or something. The various neighbors had been practicing for midnight since an hour after sunset. Random explosions all evening, was getting kind of tiresome. By the time the big moment rolled around, most of the heavy ordnance was used up, and it was barely more than background noise.

Still some random explosions today. It got blowed up, but apparenty not blowed up good enough.