When Year 2000 starts around the world

Below is a table of when year 2000 starts around the world, that is when the clocks turn to midnight and January 1st year 2000. The table is sorted so the first ones are at the top, and the last ones are at the bottom.

Table description

• Fixed time: Click the links below "UTC-time" to see time around the world at the time displayed or click the "Countdown"-link to see how long it's left until year 2000 in those cities on that line.
• Count-down: Click on the links "Count!" to see countdown to year 2000 for this city
• Local times: Click on the links "TZ!" to change the times of the table from UTC to the time zone of the cities in the current row. E.g. If you live in New York, you go down the table until you find "Eastern Time in Canada and USA..." and click on TZ! there to get the time displayed in your time zone.

The official year 2000 (as opposed to the year 2000 in local time) starts as GMT/UTC rollover to year 2000, in Greenwich, England.

See also: when the 3rd Millennium / year 2001 starts around the world.
A countdown to year 2000 showing most of these cities is also available, in interactive, applet version or static version.
A table of the first sunrise these places will be available later.

UTC-time	Count- downs	Change to this zone	Where year 2000 starts at shown time in first column
31 Dec 1999 - 10:00	Count!	Use this TZ!	Kiritimati on the Christmas Islands, in Kiribati, and Tonga in the Pacific are the first to celebrate year 2000 Places: Kiritimati (Kiribati - Christmas Islands), Nukualofa (Tonga)
31 Dec 1999 - 10:15	Count!	Use this TZ!	Chatham Island outside of New Zealand has a special timezone and seems to be the second place on earth to see the clocks go to year 2000 Places: Chatham Island (New Zealand)
31 Dec 1999 - 11:00	Count!	Use this TZ!	New Zealand, the South Pole base and Fiji are next to go. Places: Suva (Fiji Islands), Wellington (New Zealand), Auckland (New Zealand), Rawaki (Kiribati - Phoenix Islands)
31 Dec 1999 - 12:00	Count!	Use this TZ!	Eastern Russia, some Pacific islands Places: Anadyr (Russia), Kamchatka (Russia), Makwa (Nauru), Funafuti (Tuvalu), Tarawa (Kiribati), Majuro (Marshall Islands)
31 Dec 1999 - 12:30	Count!	Use this TZ!	Norfolk Island - Australia Places: Kingston (Australia - Norfolk Island)
31 Dec 1999 - 13:00	Count!	Use this TZ!	Parts of eastern Australia and some pacific Islands Places: Sydney (Australia), Melbourne (Australia), Canberra (Australia), Vila (Vanuatu), Kolonia (Fed. states of Micronesia), Honiara (Solomon Islands), Noumea (France - New Caledonia), Lord Howe Island (Australia), Hobart (Australia - Tasmania)
31 Dec 1999 - 13:30	Count!	Use this TZ!	South Australia Places: Adelaide (Australia)
31 Dec 1999 - 14:00	Count!	Use this TZ!	Queensland - Australia, a part of Russia and some islands far east in the Pacific Places: Brisbane (Australia), Vladivostok (Russia), Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea), Guam (U.S.A. - Mariana Islands)
31 Dec 1999 - 14:30	Count!	Use this TZ!	Northern Territory - Australia Places: Darwin (Australia)
31 Dec 1999 - 15:00	Count!	Use this TZ!	Now Japan, Korea and far east Indonesia enters year 2000 Places: Tokyo (Japan), Seoul (South Korea), Ösaka (Japan), Yokohama (Japan), Taegu (South Korea), Sapporo (Japan), Pusan (South Korea), Nagoya (Japan), Köbe (Japan), Kyöto (Japan), Kitakyüshü (Japan), Kawasaki (Japan), Inch'on (South Korea), Fukuoka (Japan), Pyongyang (North Korea), Ternate (Indonesia - Halmahera), Ambon (Indonesia - Seram), Jayapura (Indonesia - Irian Jaya)
31 Dec 1999 - 16:00	Count!	Use this TZ!	China, parts of South-East Asia, Central Indonesia and rest of Australia Places: Beijing (China), Taipei (Taiwan), Shanghai (China), Singapore (Singapore), Manila (Philippines), Hong Kong (China), Perth (Australia), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia), Bandar Seri Begawan (Brunei), Zibo (China), Zhenghou (China), Wuhan (China), Tsingtao (China), Tientsin (China), Tangshan (China), Taiyuan (China), Sian (China), Shijiazhuang (China), Qiqihar (China), Nanchang (China) and many more...
31 Dec 1999 - 17:00	Count!	Use this TZ!	Indonesia and rest of South-East Asia Places: Hanoi (Vietnam), Bangkok (Thailand), Jakarta (Indonesia - Java), Surabaya (Indonesia - Java), Krasnoyarsk (Russia), Vientiane (Laos), Saigon (Vietnam), Phnomh Penh (Cambodia), Palembang (Indonesia - Sumatera), Medan (Indonesia - Sumatera), Malang (Indonesia - Java), Bandung (Indonesia - Java), Surakarta (Indonesia - Java), Semarang (Indonesia - Java), The Settlement (Australia - Christmas Island)
31 Dec 1999 - 17:30	Count!	Use this TZ!	Burma with its half-hour timezone Places: Rangoon (Burma)
31 Dec 1999 - 18:00	Count!	Use this TZ!	Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and parts of Russia Places: Dhaka (Bangladesh), Colombo (Sri Lanka), Almaty (Kazakhstan), Novosibirsk (Russia), Omsk (Russia), Thimphu (Bhutan), Chittagong (Bangladesh)
31 Dec 1999 - 18:15	Count!	Use this TZ!	Nepal has its special timezone here Places: Kathmandu (Nepal)
31 Dec 1999 - 18:30	Count!	Use this TZ!	All of India enters year 2000 Places: New Delhi (India), Calcutta (India), Mumbai (India), Delhi (India), Nãgpur (India), Chennai (India), Lucknow (India), Kãnpur (India), Jaipur (India), Hyderãbãd (India), Bangalore (India), Ahmadãbãd (India)
31 Dec 1999 - 19:00	Count!	Use this TZ!	Most of Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgystan and parts of Russia are next Places: Tashkent (Uzbekistan), Islamabad (Pakistan), Karachi (Pakistan), Lahore (Pakistan), Chelyabinsk (Russia), Sverdlovsk (Russia), Perm (Russia), Ufa (Russia), Faisalabad (Pakistan), Ashkhabad (Turkmenistan), Dushanbe (Tajikistan), Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan), Male (Maldives), Aqtobe (Kazakhstan), Port-aux-Francais (France - Kerguelen)
31 Dec 1999 - 19:30	Count!	Use this TZ!	Afghanistan Places: Kabul (Afghanistan)
31 Dec 1999 - 20:00	Count!	Use this TZ!	Armenia, Azerbaijan, parts of Russia and Arabia, some islands in the Indian Ocean. Places: Dubai (United Arab Emirates), Tbilisi (Georgia), Yerevan (Armenia), Baku (Azerbaijan), Samara (Russia), Port Louis (Mauritius), Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), Muscat (Oman), Aqtau (Kazakhstan), Victoria (Seychelles), Saint-Denis (Reunion)
31 Dec 1999 - 20:30	Count!	Use this TZ!	Iran Places: Tehran (Iran)
31 Dec 1999 - 21:00	Count!	Use this TZ!	Most of western Asia and Arabia, parts of Russia, and eastern parts of Africa Places: Moscow (Russia), Baghdad (Iraq), Nairobi (Kenya), Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Aden (Yemen), Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), Antananarivo (Madagaskar), Kuwait City (Kuwait), Ad Dawhah (Qatar), Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), Sana (Yemen), Kazan (Russia), Novgorod (Russia), Sankt-Peterburg (Russia), Murmansk (Russia), Mogadishu (Somalia), Makkah (Saudi Arabia), Al Manamah (Bahrain), Asmera (Eritrea), Djibouti (Djibouti), Jiddah (Saudi Arabia) and many more...
31 Dec 1999 - 22:00	Count!	Use this TZ!	Eastern Europe and Turkey, parts of Africa - from North to South. Places: Cairo (Egypt), Bucharest (Romania), Athens (Greece), Sofia (Bulgaria), Ankara (Turkey), Khartoum (Sudan), Johannesburg (South Africa), Harare (Zimbabwe), Cape Town (South Africa), Beirut (Lebanon), Minsk (Belarus), Tallinn (Estonia), Jerusalem (Israel), Amman (Jordan), Istanbul (Turkey), Helsinki (Finland), Nicosia (Cyprus), Tel Aviv (Israel), Vilnius (Lithuania), Riga (Latvia), Damascus (Syria), Alexandria (Egypt), Kiev (Ukraine), Pretoria (South Africa), Tripoli (Libya), Kishinev (Moldova), Izmir (Turkey) and many more...
31 Dec 1999 - 23:00	Count!	Use this TZ!	Western Europe, parts of Africa Places: Brussels (Belgium), Geneva (Switzerland), Copenhagen (Denmark), Budapest (Hungary), Berlin (Germany), Barcelona (Spain), Zürich (Switzerland), Warsaw (Poland), Vienna (Austria), Stockholm (Sweden), Rome (Italy), Paris (France), Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Madrid (Spain), Algiers (Algeria), Lagos (Nigeria), Frankfurt (Germany), Belgrade (Yugoslavia - Serbia), Zagreb (Croatia), Prague (Czech Republic), Oslo (Norway), Gibraltar (U.K. - Gibraltar), Düsseldorf (Germany), Bratislava (Slovakia), Skopje (Macedonia), Luxembourg (Luxembourg), Hamburg (Germany), Tirane (Albania), Bern (Switzerland), Venice (Italy), Turin (Italy), Tunis (Tunisia), Palma (Spain), Nice (France), Naples (Italy), Munich (Germany), Kinshasa (Zaire), Kano Nigeria (Nigeria), Podgoriza (Yugoslavia - Montenegro) and many more...
1 Jan 2000 - 00:00	Count!	Use this TZ!	UTC-time, London, Portugal, Iceland, western Africa. Places: London (U.K. - England), Dublin (Ireland), Casablanca (Morocco), Lisbon (Portugal), Reykjavik (Iceland), Glasgow (U.K. - Scotland), Porto (Portugal), Birmingham (U.K. - England), Belfast (U.K. - Northern Ireland), Dakar (Senegal), Edinburgh (U.K. - Scotland), Bamako (Mali), Tanger (Morocco), Rabat (Morocco), Nouakchott (Mauritania), Freetown (Sierra Leone), Conakry (Guinea), Accra (Ghana), Liverpool (U.K. - England), Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), Monrovia (Liberia) and many more...
1 Jan 2000 - 01:00	Count!	Use this TZ!	Azores in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean Places: Azores (Portugal), Praia (Cape Verde)
1 Jan 2000 - 02:00	Count!	Use this TZ!	Eastern parts of South-America Places: Sao Paulo (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Brasilia (Brazil), Salvador (Brazil), Salvador (Brazil), Recife (Brazil), Fernando de Noronha (Brazil)
1 Jan 2000 - 03:00	Count!	Use this TZ!	Rest of eastern South-America Places: Buenos Aires (Argentina), Santiago (Chile), Asuncion (Paraguay), Montevideo (Uruguay), Nuuk (Denmark - Greenland), Stanley (U.K. - Falkland Islands), Cayenne (France - French Guiana), Paramaribo (Suriname)
1 Jan 2000 - 03:30	Count!	Use this TZ!	Newfoundland in Canada Places: St. John's (Canada - Newfoundland)
1 Jan 2000 - 04:00	Count!	Use this TZ!	Eastern Canada, many Caribbean islands, parts of South-America Places: Caracas (Venezuela), Halifax (Canada - Nova Scotia), Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), San Juan (Puerto Rico), La Paz (Bolivia), Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago), Bermuda (U.K. - Bermuda), Manaus (Brazil), Georgetown (Guyana), Bridgetown (Barbados), Saint John (Canada - New Brunswick), Roseau (Dominica), Charlottetown (Canada - Pr.Edward I), Kingstown (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines), Castries (Saint Lucia), Basseterre (Saint Kitts and Nevis), Willemstad (The Netherlands - Netherlands Antilles), Plymouth (U.K. - Montserrat), Fort-de-France (France - Martinique), Basse-Terre (France - Guadeloupe), Saint George's (Grenada) and many more...
1 Jan 2000 - 05:00	Count!	Use this TZ!	Eastern Time in Canada and USA, Western South-America Places: Washington DC (U.S.A.), New York (U.S.A. - New York), Havana (Cuba), Detroit (U.S.A. - Michigan), Toronto (Canada - Ontario), Montreal (Canada - Quebec), Lima (Peru), Boston (U.S.A. - Massachusetts), Bogota (Colombia), Atlanta (U.S.A. - Georgia), Ottawa (Canada - Ontario), Nassau (Bahamas), Kingston (Jamaica), Indianapolis (U.S.A. - Indiana), Hartford (U.S.A. - Connecticut), Guayaquil (Ecuador), Columbia (U.S.A. - South Carolina), Louisville (U.S.A. - Kentucky), Tampa (U.S.A. - Florida), Richmond (U.S.A. - Virginia), Raleigh (U.S.A. - North Carolina), Philadelphia (U.S.A. - Pennsylvania), Panama (Panama), Quito (Ecuador), Québec (Canada - Quebec), Miami (U.S.A. - Florida), Medellin (Colombia), Albany (U.S.A. - New York), Harrisburg (U.S.A. - Pennsylvania) and many more...
1 Jan 2000 - 06:00	Count!	Use this TZ!	Central Time in Canada and USA, Mexico and most of Latin America Places: Mexico City (Mexico), Guatemala (Guatemala), Chicago (U.S.A. - Illinois), Montgomery (U.S.A. - Alabama), Winnipeg (Canada - Manitoba), Tegucigalpa (Honduras), San Salvador (El Salvador), St. Paul (U.S.A. - Minnesota), New Orleans (U.S.A. - Louisiana), Minneapolis (U.S.A. - Minnesota), Managua (Nicaragua), Houston (U.S.A. - Texas), Aguascalientes (Mexico), Des Moines (U.S.A. - Iowa), Dallas (U.S.A. - Texas), Jackson (U.S.A. - Mississippi), Kansas City (U.S.A. - Missouri), Baton Rouge (U.S.A. - Louisiana), Acapulco (Mexico), Veracruz (Mexico), Topeka (U.S.A. - Kansas), Austin (U.S.A. - Texas), Santa Ana (El Salvador), San Jose (Costa Rica), Regina (Canada - Saskatchewan), Oklahoma City (U.S.A. - Oklahoma), Nashville (U.S.A. - Tennessee), Madison (U.S.A. - Wisconsin), Little Rock (U.S.A. - Arkansas), Lincoln (U.S.A. - Nebraska), Leon (Mexico), Jefferson City (U.S.A. - Missouri), Iqaluit (Canada - Nunavut Territory) and many more...
1 Jan 2000 - 07:00	Count!	Use this TZ!	Mountain Time in Canada and USA Places: Edmonton (Canada - Alberta), Denver (U.S.A. - Colorado), Phoenix (U.S.A. - Arizona), Aklavik (Canada - Northwest Territories), Yellowknife (Canada - Northwest Territories), Salt Lake City (U.S.A. - Utah), Mazatlan (Mexico), Santa Fe (U.S.A. - New Mexico), Helena (U.S.A. - Montana), Chihuahua (Mexico), Calgary (Canada - Alberta), El Paso (U.S.A. - Texas), Albuquerque (U.S.A. - New Mexico), Tucson (U.S.A. - Arizona), Mesa (U.S.A. - Arizona), Aurora (U.S.A. - Colorado), Cheyenne (U.S.A. - Wyoming), Boise (U.S.A. - Idaho)
1 Jan 2000 - 08:00	Count!	Use this TZ!	Pacific Time in Canada and USA Places: Los Angeles (U.S.A. - California), San Francisco (U.S.A. - California), Vancouver (Canada - Brit. Columbia), Seattle (U.S.A. - Washington), San Diego (U.S.A. - California), Whitehorse (Canada - Yukon), Oakland (U.S.A. - California), San Jose (U.S.A. - California), Tijuana (Mexico), Sacramento (U.S.A. - California), Mexicali (Mexico), Las Vegas (U.S.A. - Nevada), Carson City (U.S.A. - Nevada), Salem (U.S.A. - Oregon), Long Beach (U.S.A. - California), Stockton (U.S.A. - California), Riverside (U.S.A. - California), Anaheim (U.S.A. - California), Adamstown (U.K. - Pitcairn), Portland (U.S.A. - Oregon)
1 Jan 2000 - 09:00	Count!	Use this TZ!	Alaska - USA Places: Anchorage (U.S.A. - Alaska), Fairbanks (U.S.A. - Alaska), Nome (U.S.A. - Alaska), Juneau (U.S.A. - Alaska)
1 Jan 2000 - 10:00	Count!	Use this TZ!	Hawaii - USA, Tahiti and Cook Islands Places: Honolulu (U.S.A. - Hawaii), Rarotonga (Cook Islands), Papeete (France - French Polynesia-Tahiti), Aleutian Islands (U.S.A. - Alaska)
1 Jan 2000 - 11:00	Count!	Use this TZ!	Western Samoa Places: Apia (Samoa)