It is no longer 2025 anywhere in the world once the International Date Line region has crossed into 2026, but there are still places where the local calendar year is not called 2026 even while the Gregorian year is.

Quick Scoop: What you’re really asking

There are two different ideas hidden in “where in the world is it still 2025?”:

  • Time zones: For a few hours around New Year’s, some places are still in the old year while others have already entered the new one.
  • Calendar systems: In several countries, the official or traditional year number is not 2026 at all, even though they also use the Gregorian year 2026 for international purposes.

Since New Year 2026 has already rolled past for all time zones, there is no place where the Gregorian date is still in 2025 right now. The more interesting angle is where people don’t call this year “2026” in daily or official life.

Places where “it’s not 2026”

These regions use another year number alongside the global Gregorian 2026:

  • Ethiopia
    • Uses the Ethiopian (Ge’ez) calendar, which runs about 7–8 years behind the Gregorian calendar; when the Gregorian year is 2026, the Ethiopian year is still in the low 2010s.
* New Year falls in September, so their year number changes at a different time than January 1.
  • Iran & Afghanistan
    • Use the Solar Hijri (Persian) calendar officially; in 2026 Gregorian, the Solar Hijri year is in the 1400s (for example around 1404–1405).
* Government documents, news, and many websites show the Solar Hijri date first and Gregorian second.
  • Thailand
    • Uses the Buddhist Era year, which is Gregorian year + 543, so what the rest of the world calls 2026 is 2569 in Thailand.
* You see the Buddhist year on ID cards, in government systems, and often in operating system settings in Thai language.
  • North Korea
    • Uses the Juche calendar, counting years from 1912 (birth of Kim Il-sung), so Gregorian 2026 corresponds to Juche 115 or 114–115 depending on exact conversion.
* The Juche year is used in many official contexts, with Gregorian dates still understood for international matters.
  • Japan
    • Official documents often use the imperial era system; current era Reiwa began in 2019, so 2026 is Reiwa 8.
* People routinely switch between “Reiwa 8” and “2026” depending on context.
  • Other mixed-calendar places
    • Israel uses the Hebrew calendar for religious life (year 5780s) while still using Gregorian 2026 in civil contexts.
* **India, Nepal, Myanmar, Bhutan, Taiwan** and others have national or religious calendars (Vikram Samvat, Shaka, Minguo, etc.) where the year number is not 2026, even though the Gregorian calendar is widely used for civil life.

So, “where is it still 2025?”

If the question is:

  • Time-zone literal (“which place on Earth still has the date December 31, 2025?”):
    • Answer: nowhere , because every time zone has already crossed into January 2026 once the last zone (around UTC−12, like Baker Island) passes midnight.
  • Vibe / label-based (“where does it not feel like 2026 because the year number is something else?”):
    • In Ethiopia, Iran, Afghanistan, Thailand, North Korea, Israel, Japan, and others, people commonly use a non‑Gregorian year number in law, religion, or bureaucracy, so the “current year” on paper isn’t 2026 at all.

In other words, the planet’s clocks all agree that it’s 2026 now, but a surprising number of calendars quietly insist it’s a different year entirely.

TL;DR: No time zone is still in 2025, but several countries live in different calendar years (Buddhist Era, Solar Hijri, Ethiopian, Juche, Reiwa, Hebrew, etc.), so locally it doesn’t say “2026” on the calendar.

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