{"id":195231,"date":"2025-12-31T17:56:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T17:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/happy-new-year-watch-live-as-locations-around-the-world-ring-in-2026-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T17:56:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T17:56:27","slug":"happy-new-year-watch-live-as-locations-around-the-world-ring-in-2026-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/happy-new-year-watch-live-as-locations-around-the-world-ring-in-2026-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year! Watch live as locations around the world ring in 2026 &#8211; USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year!<br \/>Many countries around the world will switch their calendars to 2026, before most folks in the U.S. have even gotten out of bed.<br \/>But for those who are feeling a bit festive and looking to celebrate the new year a little earlier than America&#8217;s celebrations kick off, USA TODAY has you covered.<br \/>Our live stream above will kick off as Australia rings in 2026 at 8 am ET, followed by these locations, which are more than several hours ahead of the U.S. and will ring in the new year before America:<br \/><em>Julia is a Trending reporter for USA TODAY and covers scientific studies and trending news. Connect with her on\u00a0<a href=https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/juliamgomez\/ target=_blank rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=:b|z|k|\u2691u class=gnt_ar_b_a>LinkedIn<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=https:\/\/twitter.com\/JuliaMarieGZ target=_blank rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=:b|z|k|\u2691u class=gnt_ar_b_a>X<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/juliamariegz\/ target=_blank rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=:b|z|k|\u2691u class=gnt_ar_b_a>Instagram<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@juliamariegz target=_blank rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=:b|z|k|\u2691u class=gnt_ar_b_a>TikTok<\/a>: @juliamariegz, or email her at jgomez@gannett.com<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMirgFBVV95cUxQWVpucERWRXE2N0RvbjRlXzdZSGg0d2ZiaWdRT0xUWHh1QWhFcUZKd1IwTmY2S0tib2tWNFhnTE1YZlVXZEM4emtjZk5JX2lHTVF3M0kxS25Ub2FMc285NWhVQUo1cnN3MG5hakxKY2ZvZ29IQXVFVFdoZldzOFgxU2ZfbDZJT0plTUpBLS1xcjVFVlRVRGNFMUtFYVVZUmFFeGxPVVc5V1NyZmdpMnc?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year!Many countries around the world will switch their calendars to 2026, before most folks in the U.S. have even gotten out of bed.But for those who are feeling a bit festive and looking to celebrate the new year a little earlier than America&#8217;s celebrations kick off, USA TODAY has you covered.Our live stream [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":195232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-195231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}