What is the name of Edinburgh’s New Year’s Eve torch-lit parade, held as part of Hogmanay?

Edinburgh’s New Year’s Eve torch-lit parade is called the Torchlight Procession.

The procession is one of the opening events of Edinburgh’s Hogmanay celebrations. Participants carry flaming torches through the city, creating a river of light as the route moves toward a finishing point. The event is designed as a dramatic communal welcome to the New Year period and is distinct from the later street party and midnight fireworks.

Modern Edinburgh’s Hogmanay is a large, organized festival with concerts, street events, and fireworks. Its public celebrations draw on Scotland’s long-standing association between New Year and Hogmanay, although many individual customs have changed over time. The torch event itself should not be confused with Scotland’s older fire festivals, such as the Stonehaven Fireballs ceremony held elsewhere in the country.

Dates, routes, and finishing locations can change between festival editions. The stable fact is the event’s official name: the Torchlight Procession, not a generic “fire parade.”