At least 6.4 million people are expected to pay an average of $165 for a round-trip ticket to travel around the New Year’s holiday, an estimated total of $1.1 billion. With New Year’s Eve around the corner and the majority of Americans spending up to $200 each on the occasion per year, personal-finance website WalletHub has released its report on 2018’s Best Places for New Year’s Eve Celebrations.
WalletHub compared the 100 biggest cities across 28 key metrics. The dataset ranges from legality of fireworks and average price of a New Year’s Eve party ticket to forecasted precipitation.
Best U.S. Cities for Celebrating New Year’s Eve
- New York
- Los Angeles
- Atlanta
- San Diego
- Las Vegas
- Denver
- Orlando
- Chicago
- Washington, D.C.
- San Francisco
- Miami
- New Orleans
- Philadelphia
- Birmingham, Ala.
- Seattle
- San Antonio
- Dallas
- Louisville, Ky,
- Nashville
- Virginia Beach, Va.
