The New Year's Eve festival in Edinburgh that features a large torchlight procession through the city is Hogmanay.
Edinburgh's Hogmanay is a multi-day New Year's celebration whose events have included a torchlight procession, street parties, concerts, and fireworks. The procession traditionally brings thousands of torchbearers through central Edinburgh, creating a moving river of light before the main New Year's festivities.
The word Hogmanay is the Scottish name for New Year's Eve, although the modern festival extends beyond one evening. Its program and routes can change from year to year, so the torchlight procession should be understood as a signature event rather than an identical permanent schedule.
Hogmanay is not the same as Burns Night, which commemorates poet Robert Burns on January 25. St Andrew's Day, celebrated on November 30, is another distinct Scottish observance.