{"id":479619,"date":"2025-12-30T08:20:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/479619\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T08:20:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:20:12","slug":"where-to-go-and-what-to-do-on-new-years-eve-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/479619\/","title":{"rendered":"Where to go and what to do on New Year\u2019s Eve in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How can I travel to and from the city?<\/p>\n<p>Partygoers can travel free via public transport from 6pm Wednesday until 6am Thursday. Extra train and tram services will ferry passengers throughout the city and regional Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>Parliament, Melbourne Central and Flagstaff stations will operate until 3am. Southern Cross and Flinders Street stations will remain open all night.<\/p>\n<p>Commuters are being advised to plan ahead and check for any disruptions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nye.melbourne.vic.gov.au\/visitor-info\/road-closures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">There will be several road closures<\/a> impacting traffic in the city, including sections of major thoroughfares Flinders Street, Swanston Street, Spring Street and Bourke Street. Most closures will end by early on New Year\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>What else is on?<\/p>\n<p>New Year\u2019s Eve events are being held at bars and restaurants across Melbourne, including the Arbory Bar, Taxi Kitchen, Her, The Waterside Hotel and Heartbreaker.<\/p>\n<p>Music festival When Pigs Fly will entertain revellers at Collingwood Children\u2019s Farm, while masses will be dancing at the Beyond The Valley festival near Geelong. Both events are sold out.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Partygoers at the sold-out Beyond The Valley music festival last year. \" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/9cabac929c0fa2130ac50f5f99da03e11bf0fe99.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Partygoers at the sold-out Beyond The Valley music festival last year. Credit: Photograph by Chris Hopkins<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are still available, however, for NYE at the Bowl, an electronic music festival at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, for anyone yet to make plans.<\/p>\n<p>Across the road at Hamer Hall, audiences can view the opening night of the musical Cats. For more contemporary theatre-lovers, there is a matin\u00e9e showing of MJ the Musical at Her Majesty\u2019s Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>How is the weather looking?<\/p>\n<p>It will be an unseasonably cold New Year\u2019s Eve, with the Bureau of Meteorology forecasting a maximum of just19 degrees in Melbourne. It will be partly cloudy and there is a small chance of light rain in the early morning. The sun will set about 8.45pm.<\/p>\n<p>The mild New Year\u2019s Eve weather follows the coldest Christmas Day in nearly 20 years in Melbourne, when the mercury peaked at 17 in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How can I travel to and from the city? Partygoers can travel free via public transport from 6pm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":479620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-479619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115807546431099698","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}