🎪 New Year's Eve 9pm family fireworks over Sydney Harbour

Sydney, New South Wales

New Year's Eve 9pm family fireworks over Sydney Harbour

🕐 Thu 31 Dec: Welcome to Country 8:45pm, Calling Country fireworks 9pm, harbour lights 9:15pm, midnight fireworks

💰 Free at public vantage points; some vantage points ticketed

📍 Sydney Harbour, Sydney NSW 2000

☕ Nearest coffee: Fossix coffee, 40m away

🚻 Nearest public toilet: 100m away

The early 9pm fireworks are the family-friendly way to see Sydney's New Year's Eve, with a Welcome to Country at 8:45pm and a Calling Country show by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists. Little ones can be home in bed long before the midnight show.

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