Place the glittering New York Times, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin and the port of Hong Kong jostle, crowds will gather to usher in 2012 in a blaze of light, sound and music.
In Australia, more than 1.5 million people are expected to mass in the long views of Sydney Harbour to witness a spectacular fireworks which the arch of the Sydney Harbour Bridge as the focal point.
In early afternoon thousands of revelers were already waiting in the heat of summer for the seven tons of explosives that illuminate the sky at midnight in the colorful display that attracts worldwide attention.
"Each year we ensure that our celebrations are bigger and better than the last," Sydney Mayor Clover Moore.
In the crowds in London see in 2012, when it hosts the Olympic Games, with fireworks bursting over the Thames as Big Ben strikes midnight on a screen viewed by over 250,000 people on the banks of the river.
In Paris, tens of thousands are expected on the Champs Elysees lit on the occasion of the celebration known as The Feast of New Year's Eve fireworks while Stockholm is seen in much of the city.
In Amsterdam, the revelers are preparing for the first "kiss" between two giant inflatable puppets representing a Dutch boy and girl in traditional costume who will "walk" towards each other as the seconds tick down to 2012.
At the stroke of midnight, the puppet kiss as fireworks explode in an event organizers hope will become an annual tradition in the city.
In Rio, two million revelers dressed in white - Brazilians and foreign tourists - are expected to celebrate the New Year, the famous Copacabana beach, watching a spectacular "green" Fireworks Extravaganza.
And more than a million revelers are expected to flock to Times Square, where pop diva Lady Gaga and tenor Placido Domingo are among the stars range in the location of the famous, where a crystal ball will drop at the stroke of midnight in New York.
New Zealand may be among the first places to see in the new year, but heavy rains in most countries has put a damper on parties, with two major celebrations of the North Island canceled due to weather any in swollen rivers forced the evacuation of around Nelson in the south of the island.
In Japan, a country still suffering the effects of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, families would gather for trips to shrines to mark the new year.
But refugees from the nuclear crisis of the nation, which was triggered by natural disasters, say they have little to celebrate after moving away from home and loved ones.
"I can not say Happy New Year I do not feel happiness," said Yuji Takahashi, one of some 1,000 refugees live in a block of nuclear 36-storey Tokyo Tower.
"New Year holidays were so nice that my family and my parents came together to celebrate another year, but they dispersed and now live separately from the nuclear incident."
In the Philippines, where the deadly floods caused by Tropical Storm Washi swept away entire villages in the south, the day of the year usually festive New opportunity should be a dark and gloomy.
"Our countrymen are still reeling from the effects of the storm, especially those who lost family members," said the head of civil defense Benito Ramos, who said that more than 1250 people died in the disaster .
Traditionally, Filipinos welcome the New Year with fireworks and parties, but there are no celebrations planned for the evacuation centers housing more than 73,000,465,000 of the displaced by the storm that hit two weeks ago.
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