New Year's Day

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New Year's Day - first day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 1 January; usually a public holiday. This event is the 435^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events and the 158^th most popular event in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “New Year's Day” in Simple English Wikipedia has 24.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 5 references and 5 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 9173^rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 3248^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 158^th most popular in events in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 435^th most popular in events.

Since the creation of article “New Year's Day”, its content was written by 44 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (3248^th place) and edited by 1774 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

New Year's Day is on the 158^th place in local ranking of events in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 435^th place in global ranking of events in all the time.

The article is cited 110 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 7529 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #48 in December 2018
• Global: #453 in January 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #726 in December 2008
• Global: #373 in January 2011

There are 28 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) New Year's Day		79.33
2	Turkish (tr) Yılbaşı		63.3768
3	Vietnamese (vi) Tết Dương lịch		55.3875
4	Spanish (es) Día de Año Nuevo		50.9826
5	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Nyttårsdag		47.8146
6	Hindi (hi) नव वर्ष का दिन		43.4727
7	Russian (ru) День Нового года		32.4391
8	Greek (el) Ημέρα της Πρωτοχρονιάς		30.2267
9	Japanese (ja) 元日		27.6664
10	Tamil (ta) புத்தாண்டு நாள்		26.9402

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) New Year's Day		9 413 686
2	Japanese (ja) 元日		1 496 875
3	Turkish (tr) Yılbaşı		883 690
4	Thai (th) วันขึ้นปีใหม่		860 058
5	Arabic (ar) رأس السنة الميلادية		827 935
6	Chinese (zh) 元旦		671 063
7	Spanish (es) Día de Año Nuevo		455 584
8	Vietnamese (vi) Tết Dương lịch		265 271
9	Swedish (sv) Nyårsdagen		147 078
10	Korean (ko) 새해 첫날		118 419

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) New Year's Day		13 318
2	Japanese (ja) 元日		2 884
3	Spanish (es) Día de Año Nuevo		1 278
4	Chinese (zh) 元旦		1 272
5	Thai (th) วันขึ้นปีใหม่		1 049
6	Arabic (ar) رأس السنة الميلادية		966
7	Turkish (tr) Yılbaşı		503
8	Korean (ko) 새해 첫날		485
9	Vietnamese (vi) Tết Dương lịch		472
10	Russian (ru) День Нового года		359

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) New Year's Day		986
2	Japanese (ja) 元日		103
3	Chinese (zh) 元旦		101
4	Turkish (tr) Yılbaşı		91
5	Thai (th) วันขึ้นปีใหม่		59
6	Vietnamese (vi) Tết Dương lịch		46
7	Korean (ko) 새해 첫날		44
8	Simple English (simple) New Year's Day		44
9	Swedish (sv) Nyårsdagen		42
10	Arabic (ar) رأس السنة الميلادية		37

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) New Year's Day		5
2	Chinese (zh) 元旦		2
3	Korean (ko) 새해 첫날		1
4	Russian (ru) День Нового года		1
5	Arabic (ar) رأس السنة الميلادية		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) Yeni il günü		0
7	Danish (da) Nytårsdag		0
8	Greek (el) Ημέρα της Πρωτοχρονιάς		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Novjara Tago		0
10	Spanish (es) Día de Año Nuevo		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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