That’s especially true for hotels, which can experience price increases of several hundred percent over the rest of the year. The last thing you want to do in the final hours of 2025 is wreck your finances over one night of festivities.
Fortunately, you have plenty of fun yet affordable options for celebrating New Year’s Eve. To help you decide where to count down to the new year, WalletHub compared the 100 biggest cities based on 26 key indicators of an epic New Year’s Eve celebration. Our data set ranges from the legality of fireworks and the nightlife options per capita to food affordability and forecasted precipitation for Dec. 31.
Top 5 Cities for New Year’s Eve
1. Orlando
2. Las Vegas
3. New York
4. Seattle
5. Los Angeles