Raise a glass to the New Year with our Buenos Aires recommendations for celebrating 2025 in style. Whether you’re looking for champagne toasts over the city skyline or would rather dance the night away to cumbia rhythms, we’ve got you covered. 

So here’s to 2025 — we’re ready for it to be better, but nobody’s exactly holding their breath. 

Sky Bar in Hotel Pulitzer

Tuesday 31 — event goes until 3 a.m.

Hotel Pulitzer (Maipú 907 and Paraguay)
Prices start at ARS $210,000 per person

Start the evening with a five-course dinner in Hotel Pulitzer’s Boco de Toro restaurant or its Sky Bar. Think blue cheese profiteroles, sweetbreads, and center-cut beef ribs. You can expect DV Catena wine (yes please), and of course some bubbly to cheers in the new year. 

If you’re somehow still able to dance after five courses, there will be a DJ set in Sky Bar with an open bar. 

This is a very fancy evening that is pricier than most of our recommendations. But it is included in this roundup because if you’re not on a journalist’s salary, it would probably be a really good time. The Sky Bar is on the hotel’s 13th floor and ideal for watching the fireworks erupt across the city at midnight. So go, have a lovely time, and eat an hors d’oeuvre or two in our honor.

Palacio Barolo

Tuesday 31 — 11 p.m.

Palacio Barolo (Avenida de Mayo 1370)

And because Buenos Aires has the best rooftop bars, here’s one more option ideal for champagne toasts and firework watching. Cocktail bar Salon 1923, located on the 16th floor of Palacio Barolo, is hosting a classy New Year’s eve celebration — optimistically themed “New Year in Paradise.”

Indulge in views of the city skyline, beats of a live DJ set, an open bar, and a sweets table filled with holiday delicacies.

The reason this event is significantly cooler than other NYE options out there is that it takes place in Palacio Barolo, one of the city’s monumental and historic heritage sites. Inaugurated in 1923 (hence the name of the cocktail bar), it was the tallest building in South America at the time. Inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy, this Argentine palace was divided into three parts, corresponding to hell, purgatory, and heaven.

Cumbia Konex

Saturday 28 — 12:30 a.m. 

CCKonex (Sarmiento 3131)

Prices start at ARS $12,000

As romantic and photogenic as champagne on a rooftop bar is, I will pick cumbia over historic buildings and city skylines any day. If you, too, are an uncultured heathen, then listen up. 

This Saturday there’s a cumbia event at CCKonex, which is arguably the sweatiest and best way to bid good riddance to 2024. Any event that lists the ending time as “la madrugada” or early the next morning, is going to be a good one. 

Cumbia classics Damas Gratis are playing (full disclosure: my editor might have had to tell me that they were a band, I just thought women had free entry), along with Grupo Anaconda, and Pablito HC.

CCKonex has a similar cumbia event on Friday night that’s already sold out, so don’t sleep on getting your tickets for this one.

Cover photo: courtesy of Tristan Gassert on Unsplash