New Year's Eve 2023 - Rio de Janeiro

On the beaches of Brazil, people usually celebrate the arrival of the New Year dressed in white and making offerings to Iemanjá.

• In Rio de Janeiro, there are fireworks and shows musicals along the city's entire seafront. The main concentration, however, takes place on Copacabana Beach. At the turn of 2011 to 2012, the fireworks display in Copacabana lasted 16 minutes and had around 2 million spectators. Still at the same party, the city of Rio received, from World Travel Guide, the biggest party award in New Year's Eve of the world.

A New Year's Eve, also called New Year's Eve (in French it is pronounced [ʁevɛjɔ̃]), a term from the French language that means “reanimate”, “awaken”,^[1][2] New Year's Eve,^[3] or New Year's Eve^[4] refers to the day December 31, preceding New Year's Day in countries that follow the Gregorian calendar.

In Western culture, a supper is held on the day before to look forward to the coming year and, at midnight on the passage from December 31st to January 1st, there is a display of fireworks.

Kiritimati (or Christmas Island), belonging to Kiribati, and the countries Samoa and Tonga are the first to celebrate the arrival of the new year due to the time difference being 14 hours ahead of universal time, while American Samoa is considered the last inhabited place to say goodbye to the previous year, as it is eleven hours behind universal time