Watch revelers ring in New Year's Eve around the world

There was no shortage of celebration — and a large worldwide budget for fireworks — as revelers from around the world rang in the new year for 2019.

The party got started very early U.S. Eastern time with fireworks in Auckland, New Zealand, at 5 a.m. The celebrations only got more boisterous from there as the time zones unfurled with party after party.

The biggest major city to celebrate the new year — sorry, Samoa — rang in 2019 with fireworks shooting off the Sky Tower.

The most-populous city in Australia always celebrates the new year in grand fashion with fireworks over the famous Sydney Opera House and off the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Yes, even the capital of the hermit nation of North Korea celebrated the new year with a drone show.

Few countries do celebrations bigger than China — even though the Chinese New Year technically isn’t until Feb. 5.

Hong Kong welcomed in the new year with a huge fireworks show over Victoria Harbor.

Thailand’s capital, and its 8.2 million people, rang in the new year exactly 12 hours before the U.S. East Coast.

Those looking to crane their necks way up into the sky would have had to travel to Dubai, where celebrations took place at the tallest building in the world: the Burj Khalifa.

The most-populous city in Europe entered the celebrations at 4 p.m. Eastern time with a fireworks display over top of the Kremlin.

One of the oldest cities in the world celebrated the new year in the rain with fireworks lighting up the midnight sky above the 2,400-year-old Parthenon.

The people of Paris took a break from regular protests to celebrate the new year with fireworks over the Arc de Triomphe.

The London Eve and Big Ben framed the New Year’s Eve celebrations in the U.K. capital.

It was about 80 degrees in Rio as revelers were able to ring in the new year on the beach three hours ahead of New York City.

Thousands packed into a wet, rainy Times Square to celebrate as the ball dropped and 2019 began.