As 2024 draws to a close, New Year’s Eve is the perfect time to come together and reflect on everything that makes South Australia a spectacular place to call home. From the state being named the nation's best to do business to Adelaide being crowned the world's most beautiful city and our wineries scooping prestigious international awards, it has been a spectacular year for South Australia.
Below is a list of some of the best places to ring in the new year. It goes without saying that fireworks, food and fun will be involved.
Elder Park / Tarntanya
Celebrate New Year's Eve at Adelaide's free riverbank event. Enjoy firework displays at both 9pm and midnight, live music, family fun and food and drink offerings. Bring along your picnic rug, your family and friends, and enjoy the festivities!
Semaphore New Year’s Eve celebrations
Semaphore Foreshore
Enjoy live bands performing on a main stage, DJs and roving entertainment, as well as two fireworks displays and light shows that will illuminate the night sky at 9.30pm and midnight. A wide array of food trucks along the Esplanade will make sure nobody goes hungry.
Drakes Copper Coast New Year’s Fireworks
Wallaroo Foreshore
Expect an exciting evening with fireworks displays at 9:30pm and midnight to welcome 2025. A stunning lighting display on the Illuminated Silos will also mark the midnight celebration. Local food vans will serve hungry revellers on Heritage Drive, Wallaroo, until 1am.
Stansbury New Year’s Eve Fireworks
Stansbury Boat Ramp
Stansbury Progress Association hosts fireworks every New Year's Eve out from the Stansbury Boat Ramp on the Yorke Peninsula. The fireworks will start at 9:30pm and can be viewed from many vantage points around the Stansbury cliffs and foreshore.
Port Broughton New Year’s Eve Fireworks
Port Broughton Foreshore
An amazing fireworks display at 9.30pm, plenty of activities for the children and food vans service up treats from 5pm will make sure there's something for everyone at this Yorke Peninsula hotspot.
Port Pirie New Year's Eve party
Port Pirie Foreshore and Solomontown Beach
Not only is Port Pirie renowned for having the best fireworks display outside of Adelaide - to be staged at 9.30pm - this year's celebration will also feature a huge live concert headlined by Summerfield. Rising country music star Caitlin Drew and popular entertainer Tom Barratt will also provide entertainment. Festivities will include market stalls, food and refreshments, face painting, roving circus acts, rides, showbags and carnival games.
Guichen Bay and Robe Foreshore
The holiday hotspot of Robe will be lit up by its annual fireworks display from the town's breakwater at 9.30pm.
Victor Harbor New Year’s Eve celebrations
Warland Reserve
Warland Reserve will come alive with live performances from 7:30pm, carnival rides, mini golf fun, free face painting and a free petting zoo. Fireworks will light up the sky at 9:45pm and then again at midnight, to bring in 2025.
Tasman Tce
There will be plenty of family fun on the beach lawns from 5pm, with two big fireworks displays at 9.30pm and midnight.
Marine Parade | 1 January
The first day of every new year marks Gala Day at Port Vincent, when the main foreshore section of the town is closed off and becomes a fairground for the day, from 2pm-9.30pm. There will be plenty of fun on offer, including a sandcastle competition, entertainment from the Amazing Drumming Monkeys, and fireworks at 9.15pm.
