New Year’s Eve 2026 in Las Vegas

By the ULTIMATE Las Vegas Editorial Team

America’s Party: the Strip at midnight

Since 2000 the Strip has seen in the year with America’s Party, a fireworks display launched at midnight from the rooftops of the resorts. Last year’s, the 25th, was choreographed by Fireworks by Grucci and lasted eight minutes, fired from ten rooftops at once, from ARIA, Caesars Palace and The Venetian to Fontainebleau, Resorts World and The STRAT. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority had not announced the 2026 show when we checked.

In recent years Las Vegas Boulevard has closed to traffic from the early evening until the small hours, turning the Strip into a street party that anyone can join without a ticket. Our advice: watch the 2026 plans on the LVCVA’s own pages in December, and pick your spot well before 11pm.

LVCVA: America’s Party, New Year’s Eve 2025 →   Visit Las Vegas: New Year’s Eve →

Headliners on the night: Sphere, the Colosseum and PH Live

Sphere, beside The Venetian, keeps its latest start of the season for New Year’s Eve: the Backstreet Boys bring their residency, Into The Millennium, to the dome at 10pm on Thursday 31 December, so the encore runs close to midnight. Their run continues on 1 and 2 January 2027 at 8pm, and suites are sold separately.

At Caesars Palace, the singer-songwriter Alex Warren plays The Colosseum for two nights only, Live in Las Vegas for New Year’s Eve, on Wednesday 30 and Thursday 31 December at 8pm; Caesars also sells ticket-and-hotel packages. Across the Strip at Planet Hollywood, Jeezy closes his residency at PH Live on the same two nights, also at 8pm.

Our advice: an 8pm show ends in good time to reach the Strip or a club before midnight; the Sphere show is the night itself, so plan to toast the year inside.

Sphere: Backstreet Boys tickets →   Caesars Palace: Alex Warren tickets →   PH Live: Jeezy tickets →

Club nights and a party in the sky

The Strip’s superclubs book their biggest names for the night. At XS, inside Wynn Las Vegas, Calvin Harris headlines on Thursday 31 December; at LIV, in Fontainebleau Las Vegas on the north Strip, Tiësto takes the decks from 10.30pm. TAO Group Hospitality, which runs TAO, Marquee, Hakkasan and OMNIA, says its clubs will hold ticketed countdowns with headlining DJs, with the names still to be announced when we checked.

For the view, The STRAT throws its New Year’s Eve Party at the Top on level 108 of the tower, the highest vantage point on the Strip, from 8pm: drinks, a live DJ, party favours and a Champagne toast at midnight. Tickets are $205 per person before 31 December and $255 on the night, with no refunds after 1 December.

Our advice: on New Year’s Eve the big clubs sell tickets rather than running guest lists, and the best tables go weeks ahead; book directly with the club.

Wynn Social: XS events →   LIV Las Vegas: Tiësto, New Year’s Eve →   TAO Group: New Year’s Eve in Las Vegas →   The STRAT: New Year’s Eve Party at the Top →

Downtown: Countdown Under the Canopy

Downtown, the Fremont Street Experience turns its five blocks under the LED canopy into one ticketed party, Countdown Under the Canopy, from 7pm on 31 December. Four stages carry the night: Alien Ant Farm at 9.30pm and Hoobastank at 11.30pm on the 3rd Street Stage, Bubba Sparxxx at 10pm and Petey Pablo at 11.30pm on the Main Street Stage, and Anabel Englund, Wuki and Count’s 77 on Casino Center Boulevard, with DJs from the start.

The party is strictly 21 and over. Early-bird tickets are $35 plus fees; wristbands must be collected before 31 December from the SlotZilla box office with valid ID, and ID is checked again at the gate. Our advice: collect your wristband on arrival in town, and book a room downtown if you plan to stay past the countdown.

Fremont Street Experience: Countdown Under the Canopy →

New Year’s Eve dinner

Most Strip dining rooms publish their New Year’s Eve menus in December. Already taking bookings, Beauty & Essex at The Cosmopolitan serves a prix fixe of its best-known dishes across three seatings, the last with a glass of Champagne for the midnight toast; the page does not print prices. TAO Group’s restaurants, LAVO, Hakkasan, TAO Asian Bistro, Stanton Social Italian and Caramella among them, also take New Year’s Eve reservations.

Our advice: if you want the fireworks with dinner, ask for the last seating and a table with a Strip view.

Beauty & Essex: New Year’s Eve →   TAO Group: New Year’s Eve dinners →   Christmas in Las Vegas →

Getting about on the night

New Year’s Eve is one of the busiest nights of the year in Las Vegas, and room rates rise with it; book your hotel, show and table as early as you can. With the Strip closed to traffic, the Las Vegas Monorail behind the east-side resorts and your own feet are the quickest way about. Some resorts check room keys at their doors around midnight, so keep yours with you.

Our advice: New Year’s Day 2027 is a Friday; sleep late, then walk off the night at Red Rock Canyon, west of the city.

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