New Year Traditions and Dates Around the World

New Year is just two days away now and celebration has already begun in many countries and all parts of the world. New Year has historic significance as well as modern methods that are followed by people while celebrating New Year's Eve. Different people, based on their country, religion, tradition, celebrate New Year in different manner. The main difference can be seen in the date of New Year celebration.

New Year Wishes 2015

Though New Year is most commonly celebrated on 1st January in most of the countries, the time and dates may differ slightly. Since the time parameters are different in different regions, the exact time of New Year celebration is different. Also, countries like China and India have their own separate New Year, which fall in months other than January. Though 1st January is the most commonly celebrated New Year's day.

Here is the list of New Year dates in different parts of the world

• 1 January: Most of the world
• 21 Jan to 21 Feb: The Chinese New Year and The Vietnamese New Year
• Jan through March: The Tibetan New Year
• 23rd Feb: Mesoamerican New Year
• Someday in March: Babylonian New Year
• March-April: Nava (new) Varsha (year), Ugadi, the Telugu and Kannada New Year, Gudi Padwa and Cheti Chand
• 14th March: New Year's Day by Sikhs
• 20/21 March: The Iranian New Year
• 26 March: The Balinese New Year
• 20 March: The Thelemic New Year
• 1st April: The Assyrian New Year
• April 8: The Thelemic New Year
• April 13/14/15: Tamil New Year
• April 14: Punjabi/Sikh Vaisakhi
• April 12-15: Nepali New Year
• April 14-15: Assamese New Year
• April 14-15: Bengali New Year
• April 14: Oriya New Year / Manipuri New Year
• April 13/14: Sinhalese New Year
• Mid April: Malayali New Year
• April 14-15: Tamil/ Malayali New year
• June: Kutchi New Year
• 2nd Sunday of June: Odunde Festival

No matter from which part of the world you belongs from, I wish that you all have a great and wonderful New Year 2015