A live countdown to April Fools' Day — it falls on April 1. See the days remaining plus a running hours, minutes and seconds timer, free and entirely in your browser.
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April Fools' Day falls on April 1 every year.
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How many days until April Fools' Day?
April Fools' Day falls on April 1, so the countdown above rolls over to next year automatically the moment this year's April Fools' Day passes — it will never show a negative number.
The big number is the count of whole days from today until April Fools' Day. The live timer beneath it ticks down the remaining hours, minutes and seconds in your local time zone, so it stays accurate wherever you are.
How the date is worked out
April Fools' Day is fixed at April 1 — a day of jokes and pranks the world over. Only the weekday changes year to year.
April Fools' Day falls on April 1 every year. The counter at the top of the page shows the exact number of days until the next April 1, updated live. Below it, a timer counts down the remaining hours, minutes and seconds.
What day of the week is April Fools' Day this year?
April Fools' Day falls on April 1 every year. The weekday therefore changes from year to year. The date line under the headline shows the full weekday and date of the upcoming April Fools' Day, calculated automatically from your device clock.
Does the countdown reset after April Fools' Day?
The April Fools' Day countdown resets automatically. As soon as April Fools' Day has passed, the timer switches to next year's date, so the figure on screen is always the time until the next April Fools' Day. It never counts up and never shows a negative number, and the year label beside the headline updates to the new target year.
What is April Fools' Day and where did it come from?
April Fools' Day is the annual custom, kept on April 1, of playing practical jokes and hoaxes on other people. Its origin is uncertain; the most-cited explanation links it to the 16th-century shift from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, when people who carried on marking the new year in late March were mocked as fools. It is not a public holiday anywhere, so shops, schools and offices stay open. In Britain and Ireland tradition holds that pranks must stop at midday.