The New Year's Eve celebration traditionally associated with Edinburgh's large street party and fireworks is Edinburgh's Hogmanay.
Edinburgh's Hogmanay is one of Scotland's best-known New Year's events. Its program has included a major street party in the city center, live music, concerts, a torchlight procession, and fireworks near Edinburgh Castle. Exact events and ticket arrangements can change from year to year.
The celebration builds on Scotland's broader Hogmanay customs, including social gatherings, first-footing, and singing “Auld Lang Syne.” The city event is a modern public festival rather than an unchanged medieval ritual. Its international reputation grew particularly through organized celebrations and tourism promotion in the late twentieth century.
Edinburgh Castle is a landmark associated with the fireworks, but the castle itself is not the name of the celebration. Hogmanay also occurs throughout Scotland, so the Edinburgh event is a city-based version of a national tradition rather than a separate Scottish holiday.