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London Events on New Year’s Day – Wednesday 1 January 2025

Things to do on 1 Jan include celebrating the start of 2025 with a New Year's Extravaganza by Candlelight at St Martin-in-the-Fields, and celebrating the start of 2025 at the New Year's Day Parade

Family & Kid’s events

New Year's Day Parade

New Years Day Parade 2025 Celebrate the start of 2025 with a parade of acrobats cheerleaders and marching bands

Classical Music & Operas

Catherine Manson Geoffrey Coates & Festive Orchestra

New Years Extravaganza by Candlelight at St Martin-in-the-Fields See in the New Year with this beautiful candlelit concert performed by the Festive Orchestra of London

The Medea Quartet Astral Saxophone Quartet Temporal Harmonies Inc Stroud-Zhang Duo & The Meraki Quartet

Chamber Music by Candlelight at St Mary-le-Strand Enjoy some classical music in the atmospheric candlelit surroundings of St Mary-le-Strand church

Things to do in London on New Year’s Day – The famous London diarist Samuel Pepys began writing his diary on this day in 1660. He went for a walk down Fleet Street, but you might prefer Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square and Parliament Square instead, so you can watch the New Year’s Day Parade.