New Year’s Eve 2024 In the South Bay: Pajama Party, Noon Year

REDONDO BEACH, CA — Whether you had a good or bad year, it's time to kiss 2024 goodbye in the South Bay.

From a night dive at the Aquarium of the Pacific to a New Years party with a rock-and-roll edge, the South Bay community has many ways to ring in the new year.

Here is a look at some additional events happening in the South Bay:

• New Years Eve Celebration - Flora Rooftop: El Segundo
• Happy Noon Year! New Year's Eve Celebration: Manhattan Beach
• New Year's Eve Cozy Countdown Pajama Party: Redondo Beach

Nearby, additional events will help people ring in the new year:

• New Year’s Eve Night Dive 2024-25: Aquarium Of Pacific: Long Beach
• New Year's Eve Party: The Bungalow Long Beach
• Queen Mary New Year's Eve 2025

In the United States, one of the most popular New Year’s Eve traditions is the dropping of the giant ball in New York City’s Times Square. Other U.S. cities have their own versions of this celebration, such as the Peeps Chick Drop in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and the giant Potato Drop in Boise, Idaho.

Nearby in Los Angeles, Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve kicks off at 8 p.m. eastern time. The West Coast line up will feature Dasha and DJ Cassidy’s Pass The Mic Live!, starring Ja Rule, Fat Joe, Slick Rick & Doug E. Fresh, Ernest, HARDY, Kesha, Laufey, Natasha Bedingfield T-Pain and Alanis Morissette, with special guest Reneé Rapp.

The transition from one year to the next is often marked by the singing of “Auld Lang Syne,” a Scottish folk song whose title roughly translates to “days gone by,” according to Encyclopedia Britannica and History.com.

The tradition of New Year’s resolutions dates back 8,000 years to ancient Babylonians, who made promises to return borrowed items and repay debts at the beginning of the new year, which was in mid-March when they planted their crops.

Related: What New Year’s Resolution Did You Keep? How Did You Do It? [Patch Survey]

According to legend, if people kept their word, the pagan gods would grant them favor in the coming year. However, if they broke their promises, they would lose favor with the gods.

Many secular New Year’s resolutions focus on imagining new, improved versions of ourselves.

The failure rate of New Year’s resolutions is about 80 percent, according to U.S. News & World Report. There are many reasons, but a big one is they’re made out of remorse — for gaining weight, for example — and aren’t accompanied by a shift in attitude or a plan for coping with the stress and discomfort that comes with changing a habit or condition.