Hong Kong welcomes 2025 as hundreds of thousands gather for harbour fireworks
Themed ‘The Symphony of Happiness’, New Year countdown celebration began at 11pm with four sets of fireworks and star-studded musical and dance performance
Hundreds of thousands of revellers packed both sides of Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour for a fireworks display on New Year’s Eve, as they expressed hopes for health and happiness in 2025.
By 9pm, celebrations across the city had drawn more than 143,000 visitors, of whom 108,000, or 75 per cent, were from mainland China.
The number of mainland visitors was only about half of the 195,888 for the previous New Year’s Eve, a Sunday, when 227,000 non-local arrivals were recorded.
Themed “The Symphony of Happiness”, the countdown celebration began at 11pm with four sets of fireworks and a star-studded musical and dance performance, before the main 12-minute display started at midnight.
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Hong Kong rings in 2025 with traditional New Year’s Eve fireworks
From 11pm, fireworks in the shape of “shooting stars” were launched every 15 minutes from three buildings on Hong Kong Island, leaving revellers in awe.
Members of Cantopop boy band Mirror, girl group Collar and Canadian pop music duo Crash Adams performed on the viewing deck of the Cultural Centre in Tsim Sha Tsui.
