{"id":665946,"date":"2026-01-01T02:42:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/665946\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T02:42:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:42:22","slug":"happy-new-year-2026-as-scotland-celebrates-hogmanay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/665946\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year 2026 as Scotland celebrates Hogmanay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scotland has welcomed in the New Year in traditional style after Hogmanay celebrationsFireworks over Edinburgh Castle during the Hogmanay New Year celebrations in Edinburgh(Image: PA)<\/p>\n

Happy New Year from everyone at the Daily Record<\/a> and Sunday Mail. We hope 2026 brings you all lots of treasured moments and lasting memories.<\/p>\n

And as always, we hope you have a great New Year’s Day after the nation brought in the bells in style.<\/p>\n

Revellers were once again back on the streets of Edinburgh<\/a> for the celebrations after stormy weather cancelled many of the events planned for Hogmanay 2024.<\/p>\n

Despite facing chilly weather conditions, the massive crowd in Edinburgh<\/a> cheered and counted down before the clock struck midnight on December 31.<\/p>\n

Edinburgh Castle lit up ahead of during the Hogmanay New Year celebrations in Edinburgh(Image: Steve Welsh\/PA Wire)Nilo Latifi and Reza Shi from Iran during the Hogmanay New Year celebrations in Edinburgh(Image: Steve Welsh\/PA Wire)<\/p>\n

Fireworks<\/a> lit up the capital with 10,000 shots filling the sky over Princes Street Gardens to a curated soundtrack.<\/p>\n

More than 55,000 from across the world gathered in the heart of Scotland’s capital to wave goodbye to 2025.<\/p>\n

People travelled from as far as the Netherlands, Poland, Iran and California to join the celebrations at the Home of Hogmanay.<\/p>\n

As many as 45,000 people brought in the New Year at the capital’s famous Street Party while another 10,000 gathered in Princes Street Gardens for music headlined by the Grammy award-winning Wet Leg.<\/p>\n

Anna and Andrzej from Poland during the Hogmanay New Year celebrations in Edinburgh.(Image: Steve Welsh\/PA Wire)Pernell family from California celebrate Hogmanay 2026 in Edinburgh, with New Year’s Eve street party(Image: Katielee Arrowsmith \/ SWNS)<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in Scotland, the annual Stonehaven Fireballs parade spectacular took place in Aberdeenshire and the people of Clydesdale welcomed in the New Year with the annual Biggar Bonfire.<\/p>\n

Revellers celebrate Hogmanay 2026 in Edinburgh, with New Year’s Eve street party.(Image: Katielee Arrowsmith \/ SWNS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scotland has welcomed in the New Year in traditional style after Hogmanay celebrationsFireworks over Edinburgh Castle during the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5009],"tags":[748,1102,35977,4884,122343,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-665946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scotland","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-fireworks","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-hogmanay","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115817542384370996","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}