Edinburgh's major Scottish New Year's celebration is called Hogmanay.
Hogmanay is the Scottish term for New Year's Eve and the surrounding celebrations. Edinburgh's modern festival developed into a large public event featuring concerts, street parties, a torchlight procession, and fireworks. The exact program can change from year to year, but the name refers to the wider Scottish New Year's tradition as well as the Edinburgh festival.
The celebration reflects several layers of Scottish custom. “First-footing,” in which the first person to enter a household after midnight brings symbolic gifts, is a familiar tradition. Singing “Auld Lang Syne” is also strongly associated with Scottish New Year celebrations.
Hogmanay is sometimes confused with Burns Night, which honors poet Robert Burns on January 25, or with St Andrew's Day, Scotland's national day on November 30. Those are separate observances. Edinburgh's Hogmanay is specifically a New Year's event, with its public ceremonies centered on the transition from December 31 to January 1.