What is the name of the New Year's Eve firework festival held at Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill?

The New Year’s Eve firework festival held around Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill is Edinburgh’s Hogmanay.

Edinburgh’s Hogmanay is a large Scottish New Year celebration featuring concerts, street events, torchlight activities, and fireworks. Its best-known midnight display uses Edinburgh Castle as a dramatic backdrop, while Calton Hill is another prominent viewpoint and event location. The festival is part of Scotland’s broader Hogmanay tradition, not a separate Scottish holiday from New Year’s Eve.

The word Hogmanay refers to New Year’s Eve in Scots. Scotland developed especially prominent Hogmanay customs, including first-footing, in which the first visitor to enter a home after midnight is traditionally associated with bringing luck. Modern Edinburgh’s festival combines those cultural associations with ticketed concerts and large public gatherings.

The event has changed over time, particularly as organized city-center celebrations expanded in the late twentieth century. Edinburgh’s Hogmanay is also distinct from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which is primarily a summer arts festival. The castle fireworks and midnight street atmosphere are defining features of this winter celebration.