The Street Party is perhaps the best-known event in Edinburgh's Hogmanay Festival calendar. The street party takes place the length on Princes Street, with live bands, dancing in the street, and street theatre troupes mingling with crowds.

The street party climaxes with the bells of Big Ben at midnight, and a dramatic fireworks display above Edinburgh Castle to herald in the New Year. This is followed by a joining of hands as the crowd sings Auld Lang Syne, a kissathon, and more partying into the wee wee hours both on the street and around the city.

The festivities get going when the stages and screens go live at 10pm. Access is by street party ticket and booze is permitted so long as it is not in glass containers. Free night buses are laid on for revellers.

Edinburgh's Hogmanay street party has been scaled back in recent years from 180,000/200,000 of the millennium party to around 100,000 and takes place within a smaller cordoned-off area.