Shopping on New Year's Eve in Vienna: These Stores are Open on December 31, 2024

On Tuesday, December 31, 2024, preparations for New Year's Eve in Vienna will once again cause a large rush in the stores. Despite shortened opening hours, many stores and shopping centers in Vienna are open on New Year's Eve. This means that you can still do your last-minute shopping on December 31, for example, groceries, sparkling wine, and decorations for the New Year's Eve party or traditional lucky charms.

On New Year's Eve, last-minute purchases in general trade can be made until 5:00 PM according to the Vienna opening hours regulation. The trade with sweets, natural flowers, and New Year's Eve items can be open until 8:00 PM and groceries can be sold until 6:00 PM. Here is an overview of the opening hours of supermarkets, drugstores, and shopping centers in Vienna on December 31, 2024.

Opening Hours of Supermarkets and Drugstores in Vienna on December 31, 2024

Billa/Billa Plus: 6.30 - 5.00 PM
Exceptions for branches with special opening hours:

Hofer: 7.40 - 3.00 PM

Lidl: 7.15 or 7.40 - 3.00 PM
except branches Vienna-Felberstraße (8.30 - 3.00 PM) and Vösendorf (8.00 - 3.00 PM)

Penny: the branches are open until 5.00 PM, more detailed information on individual locations can be viewed in the branch finder

Spar, Eurospar and Interspar: most branches are open until 5.00 PM, occasionally until 3.00 PM; start times vary depending on the location - more detailed information in the branch finder
Exceptions for branches with special opening hours:

Bipa: the branches are open until 2.00 PM, more detailed information on the start times of individual locations can be viewed in the branch finder

dm: the branches are open until 2.00 PM, the core opening hours vary depending on the location and can be viewed online – here is the branch finder

Müller: depending on the branch from 8.00 / 8.30 / 9.00 to 14.00 / 15.00 – click here for the branch finder

Opening Hours of Vienna Shopping Centers on December 31, 2024

All Vienna shopping centers are open on December 31, 2024, special regulations apply to the opening hours:

Auhof Center: varying shop opening hours, until 17.00

Westfield Donau Zentrum: 9.00 to 15.00, The Kitchen 11.00 to 20.00

Gerngross: Shops open from 9.30 to 15.00 (Billa Plus 6.00 - 17.00), gastronomy with varying opening hours

Lugner City: 9.00 to 17.00

Millennium City: 9.00 to 14.00

Riverside: 9.00 to 15.00 (individual shops until 14.00)

Huma Eleven: Shops: 9.00 to 14.00, Interspar branch 7.00 - 16.00

SCS - Westfield Shopping City Süd: Retail/Specialty stores 9.00 to 14.00, Mall until 15.00

Wien Mitte – The Mall: Shops 9.00 to 14.00, Interspar Pronto 6.00 - 20.00

New Year's Market Stalls and New Year's Eve Markets in Vienna Open on December 31, 2024

Right after Christmas, the New Year's market stalls started all over Vienna, these are also open on December 31. At 183 different locations in Vienna, lucky pigs, other lucky charms, New Year's Eve items and joke articles can still be purchased for New Year's Eve. At the five New Year's Eve markets, there is also punch, mulled wine and Co.:

New Year's Eve Village at Maria-Theresien-Platz: 11.00 - 18.00

New Year's Eve Village at Belvedere Palace: 11.00 - 18.00

New Year's Market Pedestrian Zone Favoriten: 9.00 - 24.00

New Year's Market Schönbrunn Palace: until 6.1. daily from 10.00 - 19.00

New Year's Market Floridsdorf: 8.00 - 22.00

Public Transport Operation on New Year's Eve 2024 in Vienna

The Viennese public transport also operates all night on December 31, 2024 - here is the New Year's Eve timetable for the Viennese lines.

VIENNA.at wishes all readers a stress-free last-minute shopping on December 31, 2024 - and of course a beautiful New Year's Eve in Vienna and a good start!

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