Scotland's New Year's Eve festival is called Hogmanay.
Hogmanay is the Scottish celebration of the last day of the year and the arrival of the new one. Edinburgh hosts one of its best-known modern versions, with concerts, street parties, fireworks, and a torchlight procession. The festival attracts visitors from many countries, although celebrations also take place throughout Scotland.
Its name has uncertain origins. Proposed explanations connect it with French, Norse, Gaelic, or Scots-language traditions, but no single derivation is universally accepted. The uncertainty is part of the term's long and complex history.
A related custom is first-footing: the first person to enter a household after midnight traditionally brings symbolic gifts such as whisky, shortbread, coal, or salt. Hogmanay is therefore both a public festival and a collection of domestic customs centered on luck and hospitality.