Which New Year's Eve celebration is held at Edinburgh Castle and along Princes Street?

Edinburgh's Hogmanay is the New Year's Eve celebration held around Edinburgh Castle and Princes Street.

The modern festival developed into a large organized event in the twentieth century, combining concerts, street festivities, a torchlight procession, and midnight fireworks. Its most famous gathering is the outdoor street party in central Edinburgh, where crowds count down beneath the castle skyline. Hogmanay is the Scottish word for New Year's Eve or the New Year season, not the name of a specific food or dance.

The celebration is rooted in Scotland's distinctive New Year customs. On New Year's Day, “first-footing” traditionally involves the first person to enter a household after midnight bringing symbolic gifts such as coal, shortbread, or whisky. The large Edinburgh festival has sometimes been canceled or changed because of severe weather or public-health restrictions, so its exact program can vary from year to year.