When is Edinburgh's Hogmanay 2027?

29 December 2027 to 1 January 2028, following the usual shape: torchlight on the 29th, street party on the 31st, Loony Dook on the 1st. The programme is confirmed in the autumn.

For the street party and the concert in the Gardens, yes, and they sell out. The torchlight procession is ticketed too but far easier.

Is staying in the centre worth the money?

On 31 December, yes. There are no taxis and no late trains out of the centre, and walking an hour in a Scottish winter at 1am is the alternative.

Around freezing, often wet, and the street party is outdoors for six hours. Layers, not fashion.

What is the Loony Dook?

A New Year's Day swim in the Firth of Forth at South Queensferry, under the bridges. People dress up; the water is four degrees.

Edinburgh's Hogmanay 2027

Name: Edinburgh's Hogmanay 2027
Start: 2027-12-29
End: 2028-01-01
Location: Princes Street

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

29 Dec 2027 – 1 Jan 2028

Expected, based on previous years

Edinburgh's Hogmanay runs the same three nights every year — the torchlight procession on 29 December, the street party and concert on 31 December, and the Loony Dook on 1 January. The 2027 programme is normally published in the autumn.

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Hotels for these dates

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Our verdict

Go: Arrive on the 29th for the torchlight, stay through the 1st
Stay: New Town
Book by: September 2027, and earlier for anything inside the cordon

Three nights, one of which triples the price of every room in the city. Staying inside the street-party cordon is worth paying for in a way it almost never is elsewhere: at 1am on 1 January there are no taxis, no late trains and 40,000 people walking in every direction.

Illustration: a northern city at night on New Year’s Eve, fireworks above a floodlit crag, crowds in winter coats below — Illustration — a generated image of the kind of scene, not a photograph of the venue.

Which days to go

Day	What happens	Hotel price	Our call
Torchlight processionWed 29 Dec	Thousands of torches from the Old Town down to a finale by the water	×1.8	The best-value night of the three, and the most Scottish thing in the programme
The quiet dayThu 30 Dec	Concerts and events across the city; the street party is still being built	×2	Use it for the castle and the museums — on the 31st nothing is walkable
HogmanayFri 31 Dec	The street party, the concert in Princes Street Gardens and the midnight fireworks	×3	Ticketed and fenced; buy the ticket and the bed in the same week
New Year's DaySat 1 Jan	The Loony Dook in the Forth, and a city with a headache	×2.2	Stay the night of the 1st — nothing leaves Edinburgh easily that morning

Hotel price is what the same hotel costs on these dates against its rate four weeks before the event. Crowd and price are our estimates from how the event has run, not live rates.

Where to stay

Princes StreetNorth is up. Numbers match the table.

#	District	To the venue	Price	What it is
1	Old Town	10 min walk	$$$$	Inside the street-party cordon; you walk home, which on 31 December is everything
2	New Town	10 min walk	$$$$	The other side of Princes Street, with the Gardens and the fireworks overhead
3	Stockbridge & Canonmills	25 min walk	$$$	Twenty-five minutes downhill, residential, and a third cheaper
4	Leith	30 min tram	$$$	The port end of the tram; good food, late trams, better value
5	Haymarket & the west end	20 min walk	$$$	Hotels by the second station, outside the cordon but walkable

Hotel	What it is	Book
Old Town
Radisson Blu Hotel Edinburgh	On the Royal Mile, inside the cordon, which is the whole point	Booking Expedia
New Town
The Balmoral	Above Waverley with Princes Street below; the fireworks view, at the fireworks price	Booking Expedia
Stockbridge & Canonmills
The Raeburn	Twenty-five minutes downhill and a third less than the centre	Booking Expedia
Leith
Malmaison Edinburgh	On the water with the tram, which runs late on the 31st	Booking Expedia
Haymarket & the west end
Premier Inn Edinburgh Haymarket	Outside the cordon but walkable, and the predictable price	Booking Expedia

When to book

12 mo beforeDecember 2026
Old Town and New Town hotels with a view of the Gardens
6 mo beforeJune 2027
Everything inside the cordon, and the street-party tickets
3 mo beforeSeptember 2027
Stockbridge, Leith and the west end at a normal rate
1 mo beforeNovember 2027
The city; what is left is a taxi ride and a 3am walk

Getting there

The tram runs from the airport to Princes Street in half an hour and keeps running late on Hogmanay itself. Waverley sits under the street party, which is both convenient and a reason to arrive before the 31st.

The street party is ticketed and the centre is fenced from the afternoon of 31 December. If your hotel is inside the cordon, carry the booking confirmation; if it is outside, plan a walk home rather than a taxi.

Scottish New Year is a two-day public holiday. Shops, buses and trains all run reduced services on 1 and 2 January.

Flights to EDI Trains and buses

Tickets

Street party, concert and torchlight tickets (edinburghshogmanay.com)Official

Questions

When is Edinburgh's Hogmanay 2027?: 29 December 2027 to 1 January 2028, following the usual shape: torchlight on the 29th, street party on the 31st, Loony Dook on the 1st. The programme is confirmed in the autumn.
Do I need a ticket?: For the street party and the concert in the Gardens, yes, and they sell out. The torchlight procession is ticketed too but far easier.
Is staying in the centre worth the money?: On 31 December, yes. There are no taxis and no late trains out of the centre, and walking an hour in a Scottish winter at 1am is the alternative.
How cold is it?: Around freezing, often wet, and the street party is outdoors for six hours. Layers, not fashion.
What is the Loony Dook?: A New Year's Day swim in the Firth of Forth at South Queensferry, under the bridges. People dress up; the water is four degrees.

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