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U.S
If you want to celebrate New Year’s Eve in New York, you must leave your cookie at home: in the metropolis on the east coast of the USA, all kinds of private fireworks are prohibited without exception. Firecrackers and rockets, which anyway in Manhattan, in many places, you would not know where to go with the many skyscrapers. Still, New Yorkers shouldn’t miss the fireworks, as there are multiple officers in town. Like every year, the centerpiece of New Year’s Eve is, of course, the party in Times Square: instead of fireworks, it rains confetti.
France
The French are less interested in the end-of-the-year explosion: they fire most of their gunpowder on July 14 on the French national holiday. In the French capital, Paris, there is even an outright ban on fireworks for private use on New Year’s Eve. Parisians, and especially tourists, meet there on the avenue des Champs-Elysées to celebrate the New Year with a light show and a fireworks show organized by the city at the Arc de Triomphe. The city also organizes large fireworks in the coastal metropolises of Cannes or Saint-Tropez.
Italy
In Rome and in almost all other Italian cities, lighting private fireworks is prohibited. However, people don’t stick to it everywhere. Dozens of people are repeatedly injured by firecrackers across the country. There are good alternatives with large public fireworks, as in Rome at the Colosseum. Every year thousands follow the change of year there.
Sweden
Swedes can set off explosives and rockets in private, provided they meet EU standards and are approved. Anyone who wants to detonate rockets with a wooden stick needs a permit from the police. In Sweden, you must be at least 18 years old to buy and light fireworks. Anyone who buys material for their children or other minors as an adult can be prosecuted and in the worst case could even end up in prison.
Denmark
Many Danes carry an unusual item with them on New Year’s Eve: protective goggles like the ones students wear in chemistry classes. In this way, they are protected from missile debris that could fall from the sky. Even the responsible authority Sikkerhedsstyrelsen advises: “Always wear protective glasses!” Fireworks can be fired from December 27 to January 1. Firecrackers and rockets from outside are taboo for individuals.
Norway
The Norwegian fire brigade is nervous about New Year’s Eve. Many houses are made of wood; if one catches fire, the fire will spread rapidly. That is why rockets with long wooden sticks are banned in Norway. In some parts of the city of Oslo, Bergen, Stavanger and Trondheim, where there are many old wooden houses, fireworks are generally prohibited. Elsewhere, on New Years Eve, shooting is only allowed between 6:00 p.m. and 2:00 a.m.
Netherlands
For most of the Dutch, fireworks are part of New Years Eve just like orange is part of football. But even there, more and more communities are establishing fireworks-free zones, for example around nursing homes or petting zoos. The city of Apeldoorn was the first municipality in the country to even impose a total ban on fireworks as of the turn of the year 2020/2021.
Russia
If you want to light your own fireworks in Russia, you can exceptionally do it all night on New Year’s Eve. It can also hit every other day of the year, but only until 11 pm This is prescribed by a law that prohibits noise at night. On New Year’s Eve there are publicly organized fireworks in many places in the capital Moscow, for example on Red Square.
Greece
The sale of firecrackers to individuals is allowed in Greece and can be lit anywhere. However, the end of the year fireworks are more of a city affair. In Athens, for example, the central celebration takes place under the Acropolis. On New Years Eve, it is rare to see people on the streets lighting fireworks in private.
Poland
More and more large Polish cities are giving up big public fireworks on New Year’s Eve in view of environmental pollution and animal stress. In the capital Warsaw, Gdansk, Wroclaw and Stettin, the “fajerwerki” are being replaced by concerts and laser shows. In Posen (Poznan), in a public poll in autumn, a narrow majority voted in favor of keeping fireworks public. But there are no prohibitions for the public in Poland.
Czech Republic
The central Wenceslas Square in the Czech capital, Prague, is transformed into a veritable battlefield of firecrackers every year on New Year’s Eve. There the launch of private fireworks is allowed on December 31 and January 1. Thousands of people are expected to celebrate. Emergency services set up with medical tents. Another spectacle has been neglected this year: the traditional fireworks display on New Year’s Day will be replaced by video mapping, a kind of light show, for cost reasons.
Arab world
Fireworks are popular in the Arab world too, but not always legally. In Egypt, firecrackers and rockets are equated with explosives: manufacture, possession and importation without a license are prohibited. In Iraq and Jordan, firecrackers are banned in private, in Lebanon, on the other hand, use is allowed in the vicinity of your own home. By far the most spectacular fireworks display in the region rises from the tallest skyscraper in the world – the 828-meter-tall Burj Khalifa in the Gulf emirate of Dubai.
South Africa
In South Africa, the installation of fireworks in public places is only allowed under strict conditions. In the tourist metropolis of Cape Town, parties, cocktails and concerts are more on the agenda. The city administration responded with its ban, according to its own statements, to complaints from residents and animal rights activists and no longer showed approved starting locations for the fireworks. However, the threatened fines of 200 rand (almost 13 euros) should be manageable in their deterrent effect.
