Which New Year's Eve celebration in Scotland traditionally includes a torchlight procession in Edinburgh?

Edinburgh's Hogmanay traditionally includes a torchlight procession as part of its New Year's Eve celebrations.

Edinburgh's Hogmanay is a major public festival held around the turn of the year. Its events have included concerts, street celebrations, fireworks and a large torchlight procession through the city. The procession is usually held before the midnight celebrations and has become one of the festival's signature visual events.

Participants carry flaming torches through Edinburgh's historic streets, linking the modern festival with older winter customs involving fire and communal processions. The exact route, schedule and participation arrangements can change from year to year, so the procession should not be treated as an identical fixed ceremony every time.

Edinburgh's Hogmanay is part of Scotland's broader Hogmanay tradition. It should not be confused with the separate Stonehaven Fireballs ceremony, another Scottish New Year's event in which participants swing flaming wire-cage balls.