Edinburgh's Hogmanay

Edinburgh's Hogmanay is a four-day winter festival that takes place at the end of each year. In 2009-2010, the Hogmanay festival has an additional day. The headline event of the festival is Edinburgh's Hogmanay Street Party (read review) where 100,000 or so revellers jam into the city centre to see in the New Year.

Hogmanay Programme Highlights

29 December

• New Year Sprint Final
• Off Kilter World Premiere
• Edinburgh's Hogmanay Torchlight Procession

30 December

• The Night Afore Light Night
• Calvin Harris Night Afore Party

31 December

• Candlelight concert
• Concert in the Gardens
• The Keilidh
• Hogmanay Street Party
• Hogmanay Aftershow Party
• Hogmanay Fireworks at Midnight

1 January

• Loony Dook
• John Knox: First Foot the Man Himself
• New Music at the Palace
• Gate of the Year
• A New Year's Conversation
• New Man Walking
• Firelight

2 January

• Off Kilter

Video clips

• Auld Lang Syne at Hogmanay 2008/2009
• The Torchlight Procession - Hogmanay Kiss
• Millennium Hogmanay Edinburgh's Hogmanay compilation
• 1,000 Bagpipers at Millennium Hogmanay Mass pipes and drums march down the Royal Mile on 30 December 1999.

Hogmanay Ticket Prices

• Concert in the Gardens: £42.50 & £37.50
• Street Party: £10.00 "admin fee"
• The Keilidh: £30.00

Subject to booking fees. 

Edinburgh's Hogmanay Box Office

Ticket sales and pick-up at The Hub (not Christmas Day & Boxing Day)

• 14–24 December 10am – 6pm (Sundays 11am – 6pm)
• 27–30 December 9:30am – 10pm
• 31 December 9:30am – 9pm

You can book tickets for most ticketed Edinburgh Hogmanay events at Tickets Scotland and Ripping Records and www.edinburghshogmanay.org