Time Out – the global brand that inspires and enables people to experience the best of the city – today releases its annual list of the best things to do, featuring new openings, activities and travel opportunities around the world for the year ahead.
2025 is shaping up to be an unforgettable year for travel, packed with extraordinary experiences, from city-wide celebrations marking milestone anniversaries in Amsterdam and Rome to the unveiling of dazzling new cultural hubs in Rotterdam, New York, and Abu Dhabi. For adventure seekers, the list features fresh opportunities for wildlife encounters in Australia, Singapore, and Greenland, and for those looking for new ways to travel there are cycling, train and even paddle-boating trips.
Grace Beard, Time Out’s Travel Editor says: “Our annual Time Out guide to the best new things to do in the world is a great way for travellers to plan their year ahead. You’ll find everything from major art exhibitions and newly-opened adventure trails to the world’s biggest parties and once in a lifetime moments – this is Time Out’s definitive global events calendar, packed with all the unmissable stuff going on worldwide in 2025.”
From food to art, and culture to wildlife, there is something for everyone on Time Out’s list of the 25 best new things to do in the world in 2025: timeout.com/things-to-do/best-things-to-do-in-the-world
- Join a spectacular spiritual celebration that only happens every quarter-century: Rome, Italy
- Cycle, walk or paddle along Australia’s longest river on a new nature trail: Australia
- Marvel at stories of migration throughout the centuries in a new dedicated art space: Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Discover a once hard-to-reach remote island via new direct flight routes: Greenland
- See the long-awaited reopening of a legendary institution for Black art: New York, USA
- Celebrate the father of post-impressionism on his home turf: Aix-en-Provence, France
- Travel this beautiful Asian country by vintage steam train: Vietnam
- Go on a wildlife-spotting adventure at a sprawling new rainforest park: Singapore
- Explore the cross-border towns that make up 2025’s European Capital of Culture: Italy and Slovenia
- Take a micro-cruise through the Arctic
- Party like it’s 2025 at the world’s first ‘hyperclub’: Ibiza, Spain
- Kick off the year on a football-themed city break (led by an actual professional player): Europe
- Celebrate Amsterdam’s big 750: Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Check out two new sites of London’s iconic Victoria & Albert Museum: London, UK
- Explore a new ‘creative city’ on an Indonesian island: Bali, Indonesia
- Take a nostalgic ride through Europe on the revamped Orient Express: Europe
- Journey back through billions of years of the earth’s history at this brand new museum: Abu Dhabi
- Visit a long-shuttered Paris icon: Paris, France
- Get a taste of barbecue culture at the world-first Museum of BBQ: Kansas City, USA
- Travel the world at Expo 2025: Osaka, Japan
- Headbang to Argentinian rock at a newly revived music festival: Buenos Aires
- Head out on a wine safari: Durbanville, South Africa
- Go star bathing: Alberta, Canada
- Step into the future at the world’s first-ever AI Art Museum: Los Angeles, USA
- Grab a plate at one of four new Time Out Markets: Osaka, Vancouver, Budapest and Abu Dhabi