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★ Réveillon · New Year's Eve in Rio

Two Million in White

December 31, Copacabana beach. Fireworks over the water, the seven-waves wish, and the most alive night of the year. This is the one you fly for.

The Night
Dec 31, 2026
The Place
Copacabana
The Crowd
2 Million
in white
Your Net
Team · App
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★ Watch the opener

The Réveillon opener.

Sixty seconds of the night before you live it. Two million people in white on Copacabana, set to the way the evening actually feels.

The Réveillon opener video
Réveillon · Copacabana · Rio
★ What the Night Is

The biggest party on Earth.

Réveillon is Rio's New Year's Eve, and there is nothing in the world like it. Two million people pour onto the sand of Copacabana, almost all of them dressed in white, and the whole curve of the beach turns into one moving sea of light. Here is what the night holds.

Copacabana beach packed with people in white on New Year's Eve in Rio de Janeiro
The Stage · Copacabana

Two and a half miles of beach, shoulder to shoulder.

The whole crescent of Copacabana fills from the rocks at Leme to the Copacabana Palace and beyond. Stages line the sand, music carries up and down the beach, and the energy builds for hours before midnight. You feel it before you see it.

Friends dressed in white on the beach in Rio celebrating New Year's Eve
The Tradition · Branco

Everyone wears white.

White is for peace and a fresh start, and almost the entire city honors it. Add a touch of color if you want a little extra for the year ahead: yellow for prosperity, green for health, pink for love. You will never feel more part of something than standing in two million people all dressed the same way, all wishing for the same thing.

Waves rolling onto a Rio beach at night with city lights behind
The Ritual · The Sea

Seven waves. Seven wishes. An offering to Iemanjá.

At midnight, people walk to the water's edge and jump seven waves, one wish for each. Many bring white flowers and small offerings and set them on the sea for Iemanjá, the Afro-Brazilian goddess of the ocean and mother of the waters, asking her blessing for the year. It is a Black-rooted tradition that has become the soul of the whole night.

The Copacabana Palace and beachfront in Rio de Janeiro at golden hour
Midnight · Fogos

Fireworks over the water, for fifteen straight minutes.

At the stroke of midnight, barges anchored offshore light up the sky over the Atlantic. The fireworks come up out of the sea itself, the whole beach roars, strangers hug strangers, and for fifteen minutes the ocean and the sky are the same color. This is the photo. This is the feeling. Then the music plays until sunrise.

★ Your Safety Net

B.E Guardian, at a two-million-person party.

A night this big is easy to love and easy to feel unsure about, especially the first time. So we built the part most trips leave out. You get to be fully present in the crowd because the quiet logistics are already handled, by real people who live in Rio and an app that has your back.

The B.E Guardian app showing a live safety map of Rio de Janeiro
  • 01
    Your ride home is locked in before you leave
    No scrambling for a car at 2am with two million other people doing the same. Your way back is arranged before you ever set foot on the sand. You leave when you want to leave.
  • 02
    An Experience Concierge with you every day
    Someone who lives here is with your group through the trip, knows the beach, knows the crowd, and knows where to stand. You are never the only one who has done this before.
  • 03
    The app reads the street, hour by hour
    The free B.E Guardian app keeps a quiet read on the area around you as the night moves, so you can relax into the celebration and let it do the watching.
  • 04
    One tap reaches real people in Rio
    If you ever need anything, one tap connects you to our team on the ground here, never a call center, never a stranger in another country. Real people who know exactly where you are.

None of this is about fear. It is about care, so you can say yes to the night and mean it. We've got your back.

★ From a Réveillon Traveler

She already did this night.

Aisha brought her group to Rio for New Year's. Here is what she said when she got home.

★ Real Client

"Jonas made us feel incredibly safe and valued from the moment we met. Our New Year's trip was everything we hoped for and more."

Aisha · New Year's in Rio · 4 travelers
★ Pricing

Built around your group.

Réveillon is shaped to your dates, your group size, and how you want to spend the days around the big night. So the number is built for you, not pulled off a shelf.

Pricing
Custom quote
dated within 48 hours of your free call

Start with a free planning call. We talk through your group, your dates, and what you want around New Year's Eve, then send a clear quote within 48 hours. No pressure to book on the call, and nothing locks until you say so.

★ Why Go With Us

The night a first-timer can finally say yes to.

Plenty of people watch Rio's New Year's Eve on a screen every year and think, one day. The crowd is part of why they wait. Two million people is a lot of people, and it is hard to picture yourself in the middle of it.

That is exactly the gap we close. You come for the spectacle, the white, the seven waves, the fireworks rising out of the sea, and we carry the part that used to make it feel out of reach. An Experience Concierge beside you, the ride home settled in advance, real people one tap away.

So you are not standing on the edge of the night wondering if you should. You are in it.

★ Good to Know

The honest fine print.

A night this big deserves a clear deal, in plain language, with no surprises.

Nothing locks until you say so

The planning call is free and commits you to nothing. A 30% deposit reserves your dates and is fully refundable for 14 days after you pay it. Postponing to another date is always on the table.

If the night can't happen on our side

If the celebration is rescheduled or cancelled for reasons outside anyone's control, we move you to the new date or refund every dollar we have not already committed for you. We never keep money for a night that did not happen.

Bring travel insurance

For a trip built around a fixed date, a policy with trip-cancellation and medical coverage is the smart move. We don't sell it, so this is just honest advice, and we'll point you to good providers.

Event tickets follow their own rules

Party and beachfront tickets come from third-party organizers and can be non-refundable once issued. We tell you in writing which is which before you commit to any of them.

Full answers, deposits, refunds, visas and all, live on the booking page.