Germany sees in the new year with parties and fireworks
Lively celebrations and a concert at the Brandenburg Gate herald 2025
Berlin (dpa) – Germany saw in 2025 with colourful fireworks and lively festivities. Germany’s biggest New Year’s Eve celebration took place in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin: entitled Celebrate at the Gate, the party and concert were attended by 60,000 people according to the organisers. The New Year’s Eve show included a performance by rapper Shirin David with her international hit Bauch Beine Po, and there were also appearances by other popular German stars.
Many who planned to ring in the New Year in the open air were left longing for better weather, however. High winds prompted official warnings across half of Germany, from Saxony through Thuringia to North Rhine-Westphalia and up to the North Sea and Baltic Sea coastlines, lasting from New Year’s Eve into New Year’s Day.
The roughly 7,300 residents of Kiritimati Atoll were the first in the world to see in 2025 at 11 a.m. CET. The last to do so will be the people of American Samoa, which is located on the other side of the international date line: when that happens it will be 12 noon on 1 January in Central Europe.