New Year's Eve - Gold Coast

In brief

Venue

Gold Coast

Date and times

Wednesday 31 December 2025
Event times
Time Event
08:00 pm
Family fireworks - Surfers Paradise, Broadbeach, Coomera Sports Park, Robina Town Centre
08:00 pm
Free travel period begins
09:00 pm
Family fireworks - Coolangatta
12:00 am
Main fireworks - Surfers Paradise, Broadbeach, Coolangatta, Coomera Sports Park
05:00 am
Free travel period ends

New Year's is one of the busiest nights of the year on our network, so please plan your travel ahead of time to avoid unnecessary delays. 

Check out our Sunshine Coast and Brisbane event pages. 

Extra services

Trains

There will be plenty of additional trains running all night with hourly services (or better) to and from the coast, until the first normal service on New Year's Day. 

All services have been updated in journey planner, so please check the timetables for services heading:

Tram

Extra trams will be running before and after midnight to help get you to and from the celebrations. 

  • Midday to 7pm - every 7.5 minutes
  • 7pm to midnight -  every 7.5 minutes*
  • Midnight to 2am - every 7.5 minutes*
  • 2am to 7am - every 10 minutes*
  • 7am onwards - every 15 minutes 

*increased frequency/extra services

Free travel

From 8pm on Wednesday 31 December until first regular service on Thursday 1 January, travel will be free on all public transport services in South East Queensland (excluding Airtrain). 

Please do not touch on to begin a journey during this time.