New Year’s Eve 2026 in Lisbon

By the ULTIMATE Lisbon Editorial Team

Midnight in the Praça do Comércio

Lisbon’s public New Year’s Eve is held in the Praça do Comércio, the great riverside square the Lisboetas call the Terreiro do Paço, with a concert and fireworks over the Tagus at midnight; in recent years EGEAC has organised it for the city, with open entry. When we checked on 12 November 2026, the line-up, times and road closures for 31 December 2026 had not yet been published.

Our advice: the square fills early, so walk down from the Baixa or Chiado rather than counting on a taxi, and check Visit Lisboa’s own events page in December for the 2026 programme.

Visit Lisboa: New Year’s Eve in Lisbon (last year’s listing) →

Hotel galas: Corinthia and the EPIC SANAs

Corinthia Lisbon stages Walk of Stars, a New Year’s Eve inspired by Hollywood: a welcome cocktail, a gala dinner with an exclusive menu, live entertainment, a midnight toast, a late-night buffet of Portuguese favourites and an after-party with a DJ.

The gala is sold with a stay that must include the night of 31 December, from €914 a night; front-row seats are a €50 supplement, and guests sit at shared tables of ten. The dress code is Hollywood Glamour.

EPIC SANA Lisboa, off the Avenida da Liberdade, turns its ballroom and UpScale rooftop over to Arabian Nights: a welcome cocktail from 7.30pm, a themed buffet from 8.30pm, live music and an Oriental dance show, fireworks on the rooftop at midnight and a DJ until closing, with an open bar, wines and Champagne included, at €290 per adult. The dress code is Oriental Glamour.

Up the hill, EPIC SANA Marquês begins with live music in its BE EPIC Bar from 6pm, serves a gala buffet of Portuguese dishes in the ballroom from 8pm, then moves to the 12th-floor KOJI Bar for the countdown and a DJ until 4am. It costs €220 per person, with wines, beers and soft drinks during dinner; drinks after midnight are paid for as you go.

Our advice: all three ask for payment when you book; EPIC SANA Marquês refunds only up to seven days before, so be sure of your plans.

Corinthia Lisbon: Walk of Stars →   EPIC SANA Lisboa: New Year’s Eve →   EPIC SANA Marquês: New Year’s Eve →

Dinner by the Tagus

At the eastern end of the waterfront, in Parque das Nações, MYRIAD by SANA sees the year out over the Tagus in two ways: a tasting menu created for the night at its Fifty Seconds restaurant, or a New Year’s Eve dinner with live music in the River Lounge. Both can be booked with or without a room; the hotel does not print times or prices, so book through its own page.

Nearer the old city, The Editory Riverside Santa Apolónia, by the river at Santa Apolónia station, sells New Year’s Eve stays from €179 a night, to which you can add a New Year’s Eve dinner at its Impulso restaurant.

Our advice: when we checked, no boat operator had published a New Year’s Eve 2026 Tagus cruise on its own site; we will add them as they are confirmed.

MYRIAD by SANA: New Year’s Eve →   The Editory Riverside Santa Apolónia: New Year’s Eve →

Parties until dawn

Royal Palace, the city’s long-running New Year’s Eve party, has announced its twelfth edition for 2026 and is already selling tickets through its own site; it had not yet published the venue, times or prices when we checked. For a party under the same roof as dinner, the KOJI Bar at EPIC SANA Marquês runs until 4am, and the UpScale rooftop at EPIC SANA Lisboa has a DJ after midnight.

Our advice: book a taxi home in advance, or choose a party in the hotel where you sleep.

Royal Palace: New Year’s Eve →

New Year’s Day and the New Year concerts

On Friday 1 January 2027 the Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa plays its New Year’s Concert in the Grand Auditorium of the Centro Cultural de Belém at 11am and 5pm, conducted by Pablo Urbina: Strauss from the Fledermaus overture to The Blue Danube, with Waldteufel’s The Skaters and zarzuela overtures. A talk by Rui Campos Leitão comes half an hour before each. Seats cost €20–€40.

The Gulbenkian Orchestra gives its New Year’s Concert in the Gulbenkian’s Grand Auditorium on Wednesday 6 and Thursday 7 January at 8pm and Friday 8 January at 7pm, with the soprano Erin Morley and the conductor Lawrence Renes (replacing Domingo Hindoyan): Lehár, Gounod, Korngold and Strauss’s Frühlingsstimmen. Tickets are €31–€70.

For a slow start to the year, EPIC SANA Lisboa serves a New Year’s Day brunch in its Flor de Lis restaurant from 1pm to 4pm, at €160 per adult. Our advice: after a late night, the 5pm concert at the CCB pairs well with a walk along the river at Belém.

CCB: New Year’s Concert 2027 →   Gulbenkian Música: New Year’s Concert →   EPIC SANA Lisboa: New Year’s Day brunch →   Tickets for opera, concerts and fado in Lisbon →

Still to come, and how to plan

When we checked, the Four Seasons Hotel Ritz Lisbon listed its 2026/27 New Year events as still to be confirmed, and the Bairro Alto Hotel, Pestana Palace, Tivoli Avenida Liberdade and Olissippo Lapa Palace had not yet published their New Year’s Eve 2026 programmes; nor had the Tagus cruise operators. We will add them as they are confirmed.

Our advice: New Year’s Eve falls on a Thursday, so many visitors stay the long weekend to Sunday 3 January. Book dinner and a room together, and dress for a cool night by the river.

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