Nola New Year's Eve Fireworks

Welcome 2026 with the traditional NOLA New Year’s Eve midnight fireworks display, the backdrop for all of the exciting New Year's festivities in our great city!

The spectacular FREE fireworks display along the historic New Orleans Riverfront in downtown New Orleans can be seen from the East and West Banks of the Mississippi River. At the stroke of midnight an intense barrage of colors - including team colors of the Allstate Sugar Bowl contenders, the Georgia Bulldogs and the Ole Miss Rebels - will light up the dark sky!

The fireworks will open with breath-taking Weeping Willows that send cascades of golden streamers down to the river. Thousands of effects will then blanket the sky, with some breaking out across the thousand-foot span across the Mississippi River and a thousand feet high. The show will end with fourteen three-dimensional red hearts that will gracefully descend from the sky in memory of the fourteen lives lost last year.

Start your New Year’s celebration with Allstate Sugar Bowl Parade at 2pm on New Year's Eve, then enjoy the city while you wait for the fireworks at midnight. At 9pm head to a new location at Woldenberg Park for the New Orleans Eve Concert presented by French Quarter Festivals, Inc. and NewOrleans.com. This new location offers more space for attendees and a stunning riverfront view of the fireworks. Rock to live performances by Dumpstaphunk, Sweet Crude, and DJ Captain Charles, all leading up to the midnight fleur-de-lis drop and the legendary Crescent City Countdown Club fireworks display..

The celebration is produced by the Crescent City Countdown Club in partnership with the Mayor’s Office of Cultural Economy and the New Orleans Tourism and Cultural Fund, this internationally acclaimed tradition is a community project made possible by New Orleans & Company, with Allstate Sugar Bowl, The Berger & Tiller Families, French Quarter Festivals, Inc., Pyromania Fireworks, WWL 870AM/105.3FM, along with us at Magic 101.9 and other community sponsors.